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Australian Ambulance Service Provider, St John Ambulance Northern Territory (NT) Inc. (SJA NT), has signed a four-year hosted contract with Medusa Medical Technologies and Medusa’s Asia/Pacific distribution partner, Nautilus Health, to implement the Siren ePCR system and further support the delivery of ambulance services across the Northern Territory.

Read the Valentine’s Day edition of the Toronto Standard technology blog post from our own Thomas Rankin (better known to some as @RANKINTHOMAS): SHOT THROUGH THE HEART: START-UP LOVE.

Seaforth Energy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Jamaica Agricultural Society to provide clean, green power to Jamaican farmers at a cost less than their existing supply.

Seaforth Energy Inc., a leading wind turbine manufacturer, has named Ron Zima as vice president of business development.

Zima will assume overall responsibility for sales, marketing, and management of customer relations globally, while helping develop and support the company’s distribution network.

Halifax-based software company 2nd Act Innovations’ co-founders Andrew Doyle and Peter Hickey have announced that Reza Kazemipour has been named CEO and Guillaume Oget has become CTO. Kazemipour and Oget will be based in 2nd Act’s Palo Alto office and work closely with the co-founders and development team in Halifax.

Concrete manufacturer Atlas Block has signed a licensing agreement with Halifax-based CarbonCure Technologies to make low-carbon concrete products available in Ontario. Atlas Block with CarbonCure products have been specified for several sports centre projects for the upcoming 2015 Pan Am Games.

Today, (January 14, 2013) at the NRF 102nd Annual Convention & EXPO, Epson America Inc., a leading supplier of value-added Point of Service (POS) solutions, and Livelenz Inc., a provider of real-time, operational and consumer analytics for the retail and hospitality segments, announced the availability of its cloud-based data analytics suite on Epson’s OmniLink™ smart solutions family.

Today, (December 20, 2012) the Business Development Bank of Canada’s venture capital arm announces its commitment of $10 million to the Atlantic Canada Regional Venture Fund which is being set up to finance start-up companies in the IT, clean energy and healthcare sectors.

February 2013 Round

Thousands of people working in Nova Scotia's forestry industry will benefit from a new centre for cleaner energy, bioenergy and forestry innovation that will help the province's forestry industry thrive in the future.