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The IT factor: Hanatech finds success in the IT industry
It’s been nearly a decade since Hanatech was first established back in 2013, and since then, Co-founder and CTO Ali Hamidi has seen much success. The Halifax-based IT company offers a wide range of s…
Sketching away stress: How Doodle Breaks is helping to reduce burnout in tech
Life is busy. Between work, family and social engagements, it can seem like there’s never time for a break, but one Nova Scotia-based company believes they’ve found the solution. Doodle Breaks specia…
Occupational Outlook 2022-2024, Nova Scotia
Each year, Service Canada develops three-year occupational employment prospects at the provincial and sub- provincial level. This analysis is based on a forecast model that captures macroeconomic, de…
Federal Subsidies Available to Hire Students this winter!
The Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) invites applications to the WIL Digital student wage subsidy program for winter 2023. The program, funded by the Government of Canada, hel…
NSCC to Host 9th Annual IT Job Fair!
NSCC would like to invite you to the 9th Annual IT Job Fair! This FREE event connects industry with over 400 IT students from across the province. These students will be looking for work terms, co-op…
Skills for Hire Atlantic continues to prove popular in Atlantic Canada
As quickly as it began, another cohort of Skills for Hire Atlantic participants have officially wrapped up their 20 weeks of learning. The program runs two concurrent streams - one in data analytics…
PDS Call for Speakers!
The Professional Development Summit (PDS) returns in-person in 2023! PDS 2023: April 25, 2023 at Saint Mary's University Keynote Shawn Kanungo: Strategy in a World of Disruption A globally recognized…
Binogi: On track to sign its one millionth user this year
Twenty twenty-two was a pivotal year for Binogi . This past year was one of growth for the Halifax-based software company. Binogi signed a major contract in Germany, which could mean 250,000 new user…
Farflung Studio: How remote work is paving the way for far-flung opportunities
While many companies are new to the remote work revolution, Farflung Studio has been fully-remote since its inception in 2019. After years of working remotely for a San Franciscan tech startup from h…
NewAE Technology: From humble beginnings to global success
NewAE Technology is a Nova Scotia-based company revolutionizing the hardware security market—and it all began nearly a decade ago from a university research project. In 2013, Colin O’Flynn was studyi…
Welcome to the DNS team Oscar, Paige, Daniel & Libby!
We are so excited to have four new students joining our Digital Nova Scotia team this winter! They've all hit the ground running here at DNS: Oscar and Libby helping out on the Marketing and Communic…
All Hands on Tech: A new chapter for digital in Nova Scotia
Digital is everywhere and in unexpected places. That's one of the main messages behind the Here We Code campaign, a Dalhousie University -lead initiative out of its Faculty of Computer Science . Becc…
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