Innovacorp on Thursday awarded $850,000 to 15 Nova Scotian companies as the Nova Scotia innovation agency named the regional and sectoral winners of its I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition.

I-3 is the biennial competition for early stage companies in the province. On Thursday, Innovacorp named the winners of five regions in the province, each of whom will win $100,000. It also named the

Big data and environmental sustainability have become hot topics in recent years. New Brunswick’s Remsoft has been analyzing big data for decades, a foresight that has made the company a world leader in land and forestry management.

The large volume of data relevant to a particular business or sector can be analyzed for insights that lead to better business decisions and higher profits.

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Having been accepted into Toronto’s Fashion Zone in the autumn, Ella of Saint John is planning to launch its online marketplace for used clothes in Canada’s largest city in the spring.

Ella is a mobile app on which women can sell or buy slightly used clothes. The idea is that women who love fashion have closets full of wonderful clothes they might never wear again. They can post the merchandise

Early-stage entrepreneurs with an idea for a product, company or service are asked to apply for the winter 2016 Evolution program at the Genesis Centre at Memorial University in St. John’s.

The Evolution program is an eight-week intensive workshop that helps entrepreneurs validate their business ideas and get them to market.

Delivered in three phases, the program is derived from best practices

Volta Labs in Halifax next weekend will be the Nova Scotian base for the Global Game Jam, or GGJ, a worldwide weekend event that unites creative minds to develop games.

The 48-hour event will give participants a chance to develop video games, or more traditional amusements like board and card games.

The event is set to begin at 5 pm on Jan. 29 at the facility at the Maritime Centre office on

The symbolism of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to southern Ontario last week was tremendously important for his government because it gave important signals about its industrial strategy.

Trudeau toured the Toronto-Waterloo innovation corridor, announcing funding for a few key projects and opening Google’s shiny new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener. And throughout the tour,

Venn Innovation Inc. and Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge have entered a multi-year partnership to provide more opportunities for New Brunswick’s future entrepreneurs.

Under the partnership announced this month, Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge will establish an office in Moncton’s Venn Centre and develop several initiatives to promote youth entrepreneurship.

Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge,

This week in Jobs of the Week, we’re featuring three positions in Fredericton, with TotalPave and CyberPsyc; and one in Brampton, Ontario with Prism Tradeshow Lighting.

TotalPave is a growth stage startup company that gives municipalities the ability to collect valuable, objective road condition data using smartphone devices for a fraction of the costs incurred by current collection methods.

For Trish Kiley, president and CEO of digital media company Advanced Publishing, success in business means anticipating trends in publishing and technology.

Forward-thinking is essential because the Saint John, N.B., company helps publishers make digital versions of their publications for viewing on multiple devices.

Kiley anticipated the boom in phablet use in 2012. Phablets are phones with

This is a tale of two Prime Ministers Trudeau, divided by about 30 kilometres and just over 32 years.

The most recent of these prime ministers, Justin Trudeau, visited Kitchener on Thursday to open the city’s new Google office. Standing in the clutch of reporters in the packed lobby, I was reminded of a chilly night in November 1983 when I travelled to Guelph to report on Pierre Elliott Trudeau.