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California-based eEye Digital Security announced it is expanding in Nova Scotia. The company provides IT security software to assess, mitigate, and protect against vulnerabilities of IT assets and their data. Its Halifax location will focus on research and development and will be seeking a mix of highly skilled application developers, lead engineers and quality assurance people. The company plans to create up to 40 new full-time positions over five years.
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Software vendor Maplesoft, University of Waterloo and the Canadian Space Agency are collaborating to build unmanned land rovers destined for planetary exploration. The software from Maplesoft, called MapleSim, is being used to simulate the possible outcomes of a land rover moving from point A to B with respect to energy use, risk and safety.
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Government officials from Canada are attempting to attract British developers to Nova Scotia with tax breaks. The province of Nova Scotia is sending delegates to UK to woo British talent, reports CBC. The province has passed several legislation intended to attract and nurture small businesses. For games specifically, it offers a Digital Media Tax Credit of 25% of production costs, with an extra 5% for non-metropolitan regions.
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Based in Gorgia, itaas Inc., a provider of end-to-end iTV solutions in the digital video industry, announced the opening of a new office in Ontario. The Canadian office will initially focus on providing support services for both U.S. and Canadian customers for the deployment of iTV solutions which include technologies such as EBIF, tru2way® and IP.
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Q1 Labs Canada will hire up to 70 new employees, including technical and sales positions, at its Fredericton and Saint John locations. Q1 Labs is also planning to expand its research and development centre in Fredericton. Q1 Labs Canada Inc. is a subsidiary of Q1 Labs Inc., based in Massachusetts and provides security intelligence software.
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Plug and Play Tech Center, a Silicon Valley company and incubator that has helped over hundreds of successful information technology and life science companies, will open its first Canadian office in Vancouver. Plug and Play's partnership means "new jobs and investment in our city," said Vancouver Mayor Robertson. "We're seeing more and more businesses attracted to Vancouver because of our quality of life, our top-notch research institutions, and our culture of entrepreneurship. It is these elements that are establishing Vancouver as a Green Capital on the world stage."
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Google has bought one of Canada's hottest tech startups, BumpTop. BumpTop, a Toronto-based firm specializing in software that turns a computer desktop into a 3D environment, was sold between $30-million and $45-million. This purchase highlights Google's effort to update many of its services for the mobile market.
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The University of Ottawa is partnering with IBM to create the new IBM Centre for Performance Management. IBM will invest $3.8 million in this partnership over the next five years. The centre will be part of the university's Telfer School of Management Studies and will focus on R&D aimed at helping businesses deal with the deluge of information that is being created by people all over the world.
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Veeam Software, a provider of data protection, disaster recovery and systems management solutions for VMware virtual datacenter environments, has opened an office in Toronto. Veeam is an international company with U.S. headquarters in Ohio. The company has more than 300 customers and 80 partners in Canada. The new Canada-based team will help the company better meet the needs of the growing server virtualization market in the country.
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Massachusetts-based provider of advanced video quality and service assurance solutions IneoQuest Technologies has announced that it has opened a new office in Saint John, New Brunswick. IneoQuest will increase its current office staff by 50% during the coming year. Since 2001, IneoQuest has been providing hardware and software solutions for testing all phases of IPTV deployments right from R&D in the network lab to post-deployment. It caters to the telephony, cable, broadcast and network equipment industries.
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Networking site LinkedIn now has more than two million Canadian members on its site, almost double what it was just one year ago, making it one of its fastest-growing markets among the 200 countries it has members. The California based company, which is geared to connecting professionals online, will open an office and hire staff in Canada to meet that burgeoning demand. An educated work force and robust economy are two factors luring the company. LinkedIn plans to open an office in Toronto and is recruiting among its members to hire a country manager, followed by a sales and marketing team.
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ABAS Software announced the opening of abas Business Solutions Canada, with offices in Vancouver and Toronto. These new locations will allow ABAS to deliver local services and support to new and existing customers in the Canadian market. ABAS is located in Germany and has established several clients in Canada in recent years.
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Belgium-based Agfa HealthCare, a provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announced the construction of a new research & development facility in the Research and Technology Park at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. The company announced that the building will create 40 jobs for local professionals and help the company deliver on its commitment to bring industry leading technologies to the healthcare community that will improve the delivery of patient care in Canada.
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Composite Software, a data virtualization company, announced the expansion of its Canadian operations in Canada. The company has created two new executive positions in an effort to boost sales. In 2009, the Silicon Valley-based company saw double-digit growth in adoption of its industry-leading data virtualization middleware. In Canada specifically, the company reports particularly strong demand from Global 1000 enterprises in the financial services, telecom, pharmaceutical and energy industries.
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Omnitrol Networks, a real-time sensor-based application network solutions company, announced the completion of the move to its new Canadian office in Ottawa, Ontario. Over the past four years, the Canadian Research & Development lab has been at the forefront of the design and development of the award-winning OMNITROL software that is leading the industry in production deployments for automated real-time operational visibility, supply-chain traceability and M2M automation services. Omnitrol Networks is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
