David Brown, the Chief Operations Officer of Fredericton biotech company Chinova Bioworks, has been named one of six recipients of the 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards.

Governor General David Johnston announced the recipients in Ottawa on Friday.  Two Haligonians, Patricia Lingley-Pottie and Patrick McGrath, also shared an award for creating the Strongest Families Institute.

The

Our Job of the Week column this week highlights an opening for a front-end web developer with the Newfoundland and Labrador education technology company Clockwork Fox Studios.

St. John’s-based Clockwork Fox focuses on game-based learning. It makes video games that inspire and engage young kids to learn math. It analyzes data from these games to provide teachers and parents with information on

Older people who struggle with technology are often figures of fun, at least in our house. But the frustration and sense of isolation felt by technologically-challenged seniors is genuine. It’s a problem Sally Ng plans to address with her technology programs for older people.

Ng is best known regionally as the founding executive director of Planet Hatch, Fredericton’s incubator for startups. She

The Creative Destruction Lab, one of the leading tech accelerators in the country, is in talks to set up a base in Halifax as part of its national expansion.

People familiar with the situation said CDL, which originated at the University of Toronto, has been in talks with Dalhousie University and Volta Labs about a Halifax location. As the Toronto-based organization expands, it’s considering

The Business Development Bank of Canada today announced a $280 million financing package to support small and mid-sized businesses in the Atlantic Provinces over the next two years.

Targeted industries for the lending program include ICT, agri-food, ocean technology and tourism.

The federal government’s development bank said the amount represents a $100 million increase in the bank’s normal

Empowered Homes, the St. John’s startup developing smart thermostats for high-voltage heating systems, has received $600,000 in equity financing from Venture NL and Killick Capital.

The company has been taking pre-orders for its first Mysa smart thermostats, which are due to be shipped to clients in late October. Mysa uses artificial intelligence and mobile communications to ensure optimum heat

To illustrate how his company, Skyline, is helping bricks-and-mortar retailers defend their market, CEO Hu Hai likes to use simple Lego building blocks as a metaphor.

Skyline won some attention last year when Innovacorp attracted the company to Halifax from China by sponsoring it in the federal government’s Startup Visa program. The company at the time was dedicated to building enterprise

Jason Pearson is having a busy spring.

The CEO of Charlottetown-based Retrievium is now piloting the company’s product – which produces predictive analytics for drug companies producing new compounds. As he proceeds with this work with  a drug discovery company, he’s hoping to close a seed round of funding in June.

Meanwhile, he’s preparing to graduate from the Creative Destruction Lab in

Dash Hudson is continuing to expand its staff, and today we’re highlighting an opening at the social media analytics company for a product marketing manager.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson has created a “visual intelligence platform” that helps its corporate clients to create and distribute photos and video, then analyze their impact. The system is an integrated solution to predict, measure, and

Moncton-based Gogii Games announced today it is opening a new office to downtown Halifax, where it plans to hire more than 20 employees in the next 18 months.

The company, which has been developing online games since 2006, released a statement this morning headlined, Load the Wagons, We Go East!  The announcement outlined plans to set up an office in Halifax that will expand the video game