After several years in developing her product,  Hazel Harrison of St. John’s is launching the first part of her product to help wean smokers off cigarettes.

Harrison is the CEO of SNM Global Technologies – which stands for Smoke No More. The company has just released its iOS-based app that helps smokers to gradually cut down until they cut out the habit altogether. Later this year, the company

Dash Hudson and Swept, two of the companies featured at the Amplify conference last week,are looking for fresh talent in Halifax.

Dash Hudson, whose CEO Thomas Rankin outlined how his company used sales development reps to generate more paying customers, is now looking for two SDRs and an account executive.

Dash Hudson, which has been hiring strongly in recent months, helps clients analyze

High-growth innovation companies are great because they promise to become major exporters and employers. That economic potential is wonderful. What’s even better is that so many of these company have a great social and/or environmental impact.

Last month, the editors at the Chronicle-Herald asked me for a look at a few Nova Scotian companies that are doing well and doing good. I came up with a

Startup Zone, the innovation hub in downtown Charlottetown, announced this week that Doug Keefe would become its Interim CEO. The Interim CEO of the Startup Zone is integral to the continued development and management of Prince Edward Island’s business incubator, the groups said in a statement.

Keefe is the founder of Logikl Technology Inc, which has developed Software-as-a-Service for a number

The Amplify Growth Conference in Halifax Tuesday displayed something that’s becoming more common in startup events in Atlantic Canada: When the local speakers took the stage, they were generally as impressive as the experts flown in from the U.S.

Amplify focused on growth marketing — the process by which small companies efficiently reach huge numbers of people and convert as many as possible to

The Fredericton and the Saint John chapters of Ladies Learning Code will now be working more closely together as a New Brunswick team to offer bigger, better, more variety events with the aim to normalize computer science knowledge and get more female into the technology industry.

“We are working together to make sure that our events aren’t on the same weekend unless it’s a big Canadian-wide

Innovacorp is looking for a successor to CEO Stephen Duff, who plans to step down next year, and has ended its I-3 Startup Technology Competition.

Duff said in an interview Tuesday he has told the board of the the Nova Scotia innovation agency that he will not continue as CEO when his five-year term ends in the spring of 2018. The board has hired Knightsbridge Robertson Surrette to conduct the

Tucked inside one of the elegant limestone facades of Bath, England, just metres from the ancient Roman ruins, is a marvel that few tourists visit: part of the world’s No. 1 university incubator.

The University of Bath Innovation Centre occupies an unremarkable building on the banks of the Avon River. It’s a crowded, bustling space that would interest neither architects nor archeologists. What’s

When the G20 Young Entrepreneurs' Alliance Summit meets in Berlin in June, one-eighth of the Canadian delegation will be made up of representatives from Atlantic Canada.

Canada is sending 32 young entrepreneurs to the gathering, which provides a forum for young people to network and discuss ways to enhance the global ecosystem for entrepreneurship.

The four representatives who hail from the

New postings at iWave Information Systems in Charlottetown and Alongside in Moncton are the focus of the Jobs of the Week column this week .

Based in Charlottetown, iWave has developed software that helps researchers, fundraisers and other development professionals learn more about their prospects and donors. The 26-year-old company is now looking for a sales manager and an acting marketing