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Gerry Pond is one of Atlantic Canada’s greatest entrepreneurship champions – an entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist and civic leader. As the Chairman and Co-Founder of Mariner Partners Inc., he has co-founded a number of successful ICT start-ups, including iMagicTV, Q1 Labs, Brovada Technologies, Radian6, Shift Energy and Cirrus9. Read more
Statistics Canada recently released its latest GDP and related figures for 2016 and New Brunswick has performed surprisingly well. Business capital spending is still very weak but household expenditures are up and overall GDP is up modestly over 2015. If you combine the GDP growth rates over the past two years, the provincial economy grew […]
A New Brunswick startup is helping professional sports teams bring a more experiential approach to their group ticket sales– and some big names are taking notice. Read more
Tukan Das, CEO and co-founder of LeadSift – a company that generates leads by mining publicly available information – joins BNN to discuss the growth of the company and why it has no plans of moving its business outside of Canada. Watch the video
Bite-sized, animated games to help kids learn to read, and made by Halifax-based Squiggle Park, have gotten a big boost with a loan from Canada’s economic development agency. Read more . . .
The Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) welcomes today’s announcement by Finance Minister Bill Morneau regarding the passive investment income tax changes. Read more
Swept has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by iNovia Capital with Afore Capital. Swept initially launched as Clean Simple in November 2015, and later raised $600,000 from HIGHLINE VC, BDC capital, Innovacorp, and EastValley Ventures. Targeted to the janitorial industry, the platform streamlines communication between companies and their cleaners, and includes time-tracking, scheduling, and client problem […]
TAMPA BAY – The Tampa Bay Lightning announced details for ‘Go Green Sports Night’ for the team’s home opener against the Florida Panthers this evening at AMALIE Arena. The Bolts will participate in the Green Sports Alliance’s special night, which entails spreading the word about the efforts athletes, fans and organizations are making to lessen […]
Mariner xVu™ is pleased to announce that Hrvatski Telekom, the leading provider of telecommunications services in Croatia, has expanded its use of xVu’s multi-award-winning software as part of a substantial investment in key segments such as television and broadband access. Part of the Deutsche Telekom Group, Hrvatski Telekom has just launched a new generation of […]