Ian Lucey’s favourite company is Drummohr Software, which makes tax software for the British tax system. The company, founded in 1996, made $2 million per year, and eventually sold out for $20 million.

Not bad for a company run by two guys, and then later with the help of one man’s wife and son. The company’s costs were $30,000 a year to cover the expense of producing and delivering CDs with the

The GLI Group, a U.S. technology company specializing in compliance and validation in the gaming and lottery industries, has bought Bulletproof Solutions Inc. of Fredericton for an undisclosed sum.

GLI, officially called Gaming Laboratories International, Inc., announced the deal in a press release on Tuesday. It said Bulletproof’s senior management team led by Steven Burns, Jeff Shaw and Andrew

AioTV has pivoted—and the new business model is so successful that it’s received offers for a takeover.

Based in Halifax and Denver, aioTV set out six years ago to offer a single platform that would provide a range of TV products, from free internet-based video to traditional TV networks to streaming services.

Founded by Halifax native Michael Earle, the company received a $1 million funding

The Wallace McCain Institute at the University of New Brunswick has named 16 Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs to the ninth cohort of its Entrepreneurial Leaders Program

The institute selected the cohort from among 352 nominations during an intense two-day process, internally called "The Choosing". WMI said the members of the cohort “truly represent the region’s highest-growth potential

This week in Jobs of the Week we are featuring three positions in software development from Remsoft Inc. of Fredericton and Smartpods Technologies and Dovico, both of Moncton.

Remsoft specializes in providing businesses insight into how to best use the woodland resources growing on their land to maximize profitability and sustainability. Started 24 years ago, Remsoft has seen accelerated growth

Metamaterial Technologies Inc., the Halifax developer of special materials that alter light, has bought the business of Silicon Valley peer Rolith to accelerate the development of its manufacturing facility.

The purchase, the terms of which were not disclosed, will help MTI produce large-scale sheets of metamaterials needed for industrial applications. But the deal also diversifies the company’s

Healthcare and medical devices are the focus of this year’s IDEA Product Development Bootcamp. The themed approach is in contrast to last year’s bootcamp where participants worked on ideas in any field.

The Halifax-based project asks participants, who are all students of design, engineering or business, to work together in teams of three for six weeks. The aim is to share diverse talents and

The Atlantic Biorefinery Conference will take place Monday to Wednesday in Halifax. Now in its fifth year, the three-day event aims to spark new projects that will turn natural resources into value-added products and business opportunities.

Biorefining is a set of technologies that enables the transformation of natural resources and industrial by-products into value-added products.

Over a dozen

A Dartmouth startup has accelerated the launch of its mobile app because its founders believe the product could help distressed families rebuild their lives in fire-ravaged Fort McMurray.

Curbza has developed an app for Apple and Android devices that can help people inventory their personal possessions and quickly sell or donate things they don’t want.

It can also build a virtual warehouse, so

Halifax-based drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics Inc. has announced $3.3 million in funding and outlined a strategy based on “hitting singles and home runs”.

Standing in his recently opened lab, Founder and CEO Kevin Sullivan said the company is now working on a drug with a limited market that should be on the market in a few years, and a larger, riskier project to combat