With new products and a recent sales-boosting partnership, B4Checkin, a site that creates hotel reservation systems, is feeling good about the future and crediting its Halifax location with enabling its success.

B4Checkin is the creator of a suite of cloud-based software that allows hotels to carry out online reservations, check-ins, feedback and other functions.

Saar Fabrikant, the

Halifax medical device company Densitas has raised $250,000 in venture capital funding from Innovacorp as part of a funding round including private angel investors.

The company will use the funds to finance the launch of its first product, which enhances breast screening by assessing the density of the breast being examined. Breast density is a key determinant in a patient’s risk of

UHWK, the maker of a lightweight video camera that athletes can wear during their games, launched a Kickstarter campaign for its initial project this week and has already raised more than half its target.

Founded by hockey players Shea Kewin and Tim Priamo, Kitchener-based UHWK has developed a camera that fits on the forehead of an athlete. The core market is hockey players, so it can snap on

SimplyCast, the Dartmouth multi-channel marketing company, released a statement on its third-quarter results this week, basically showing that its business doubled from the summer of 2014 to the summer of 2015.

But the fact that the company has been releasing quarterly statements is more interesting than what the statement said. When startups begin to release quarterly statements, it’s

It’s incredible to think that Aug. 9 was the 20th anniversary of Netscape’s IPO. That listing symbolized the launch of the internet, and it’s amazing to realize how the online world has invaded and enriched so many facets of our lives in just two decades.

The reason this resonates so strongly with me is I believe the Internet of Things (or machines communicating with one another over the

Island Abbey Foods, the Charlottetown-based maker of Honibe lozenges, has successfully grown into export markets enough that four-fifths of its sales this years will come from outside the country.

Founder and President John Rowe said recently that the company made three-quarters of its money in Canada in its first five years to 2013. Last year there was a balance between domestic and export

Charlottetown-based Ooka Island on Wednesday released the mobile application for its game-based reading program.

Kay MacPhee, a literacy researcher, and Jim Barber, a children’s author and teacher, created Ooka Island. Barber wrote 85 levelled eBooks based on MacPhee’s research. They and integrated these books into an online game that is personalized for the child playing to teach him or her 

Famed futurist Ray Kurzweil detailed the effects of his law of accelerated returns for a Halifax audience on Tuesday, showing how the exponential gains in technological capacity will change our lives sooner than we might think.

As the keynote speaker at the Big Data for Productivity Congress, the Director of Engineering at Google told more than 500 delegates that we are about 10 to 15 years

Dual movements have begun in New Brunswick and its largest city to improve the quality of life by encouraging people to develop projects with government and private data.

Cathy Simpson, a veteran of the New Brunswick tech community, told a session at the Big Data for Productivity Congress on Tuesday that different levels of government in the province are working with the public to understand

Sequence Bio, the St. John’s company that analyzes genetic data to improve medical outcomes, raised an additional $500,000 in equity funding from Killick Capital, bringing the total of its seed round to $1 million.

The company released the news in a statement Tuesday, days after it announced a major initiative with the Newfoundland and Labrador government to apply genetic research to