On Wednesday Apple announced their new iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, upgraded Apple TV and the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. The internet went crazy. Here are the highlights: [View the story “Twitterverse Explodes Over Apple Products” on Storify]
SAINT JOHN, N.B. — The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) is investing in a Saint John-area company whose software-as-a-service product is already being used by a variety of major industry players. Gemba Software Solutions will receive a $750,000 venture capital investment from NBIF, bringing their funding level up to $1.5 million. Gemba’s parent-company Innovatia is also […]
Housing construction slowed down in Atlantic Canadian urban centres last month, according to to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Their latest batch of statistics released on Wednesday show Atlantic Canada saw 6,088 housing starts in August, down from 8,860 in July. But it wasn’t just the Atlantic region. British Columbia, the Prairies and Quebec also […]
“For anybody that’s sitting at home saying ‘I want to do something,’ ‘I want to see some change,’ – this will be a great room to be in.” That’s how 3+ Director of Business Development Trevor MacAusland sums up the Billion Dollar Lunch – a new networking event and part of Propel ICT’s Demo Day 2015 being held September 22 in […]
HALIFAX–RCMP are searching for the thieves seen in this video stealing a donation box from Mom’s Country Market on Cole Harbour Road. The store was raising money for CIBC Run for the Cure, which supports the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. The video, from the store’s Facebook page, has been seen over 144,000 times and shared […]
Premier Stephen McNeil was in Guangzhou, China yesterday, helping promote Nova Scotia seafood to the growing Asian market. The Guangzhou promotion, which involved five seafood companies and Halifax-based JusNova Agriculture, included chef demonstrations, appetizers of Nova Scotia seafood and blueberry juice, business meetings and presentations to Chinese restaurant purchase managers, importers and distributors. The event […]
FREDERICTON– New Brunswick Energy and Mines Minister Donald Arsenault is making a sales call on the northeast United States. He will be showcasing the province’s energy assets and advantages in a series of meetings with New England’s system operator (ISO New England), Emera, the Northeast Gas Association and the Canadian consuls in Boston and New […]
Port Saint John is going deep with it’s $205 million modernization plans. As part of the process, the port is taking on a major harbour deepening project. The main channel will be deepened from 8.4 to 10 meters. The deepening will extend the operational window for ships and will make Port Saint John more accessible […]
HALIFAX–Halifax-based Emera announced on Friday night that it will acquire TECO Energy in a transaction valued at US$10.4 billion. When the deal closes, TECO Energy will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Emera, which will then have about US$20 billion in assets and more than 2.4 million electric and gas customers. That will make Emera one […]
FREDERICTON – New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant announced today that a byelection will be held October 5, in the riding of Carleton, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of MLA and former premier David Alward. Alward, who won re-election in the 2014 vote that his Conservatives lose power, resigned his seat to take up the […]
