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

Black Rock Tidal Power, a subsidiary of German energy company Schottel Hydro,  has raised $15 million in equity and debt to install its first tidal power platform in the Bay of Fundy off Parrsboro, N.S.

The company said in a press release it has raised $10.5 million in private equity from a  group of investors led by Montreal-based Inerjys Ventures, an investment company that specializes in

Jordan Kyriakidis doesn’t just think his company, QRA Corp., will benefit from the Industrial Internet of Things. The CEO believes it will benefit from his company.

QRA has developed software that helps large manufacturers detect flaws in products early in the design stage. Kyriakidis said the technology will prove invaluable to the Internet of Things, in which machines communicate with one

Paul Singh spent half of his childhood in Ashburn, Va., better known as Cashburn, thanks to the AOL headquartering there until 2009. Though Singh did work at AOL—as well as a used car dealership—he gave Ashburn another reason for its nickname: he now invests in high-growth companies.

Singh was previously a partner at 500 Startups, which partners individuals to invest in startups, where he

Innovacorp’s I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition has received 188 submissions for its 2015-16 event. Though it was fewer applications than the last time the contest was held, the organizers said they’re pleased with the number – and especially the quality – of the applications.

Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia innovation agency, holds the competition every second year with the goal of encouraging

Sequence Bio, the St. John’s company that analyzes genetic data to improve medical outcomes, has signed a partnership agreement with the government of Newfoundland and Labrador to conduct research in the province.

The parties last week announced the partnership in a statement, saying it will support commercial research and development opportunities in precision medicine.

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Please, please, please, get out and vote today.

While all citizens should vote, we feel it’s especially important for members of the startup community to exercise their franchise for two main reasons.

First, there’s a movement afoot for the startup community to be more active in economic policy. John Ruffolo of OMERS Ventures and BlackBerry Co-Founder Jam Balsillie are urging mature