The origin of Orenda Software Solutions — Cape Breton’s top entry in the recent I-3 Technology Startup Competition — dates back to the days when Tanya Collier MacDonald was working in public relations for the Sydney Tar Ponds cleanup.

Part of her job was to monitor public perception of the $400-million task of cleaning up the industrial waste left by a century of steel production in the city. She wished she had a tool that could gauge what the public thought of the project.

“I kept thinking, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to be able to measure it, or to illustrate what a public healthy reaction

Sociallogical, the Saint John-based social media consultancy, has issued the following press release:

Social Media Crash Course Set for Toronto

TORONTO, ON -- Canadian social media strategy firm Sociallogical will teach attendees of a three-day crash course exactly how to create strategies for their clients.

Aimed at new and established business owners who want to own this important piece of

Alpha Dog Games has released its newest mobile game MonstroCity: Build and Destroy in the Philippines, as a prelude to a global launch.

The Bedford-based mobile game company and its German online game publisher Gameforge hope to position MonstroCity in the top 10 games in the Apple and Google app stores worldwide.

Founded by Jeff Cameron and Shawn Woods in 2012, Alpha Dog has developed console

A pair of job openings at Saint John-based ProcedureFlow head this week’s postings in Jobs of the Week, which highlights postings on the Entrevestor Job Board. They are joined by postings from Brampton, Ont.-based Prism Tradeshow Lighting and STI Technologies Ltd. of Halifax.

ProcedureFlow is a SaaS program that guides employees through everyday business operations.

Prism Tradeshow Lighting is a full-service tradeshow lighting company operating in the U.S. and Canada, offering a line of lighting products for consumer and trade shows.

STI Technologies develops solutions for the

After building a successful music school, St. John’s-based Lisa Gillam is taking the advice of her advisory board and developing her online digital music store for the global market.

Gillam’s Munchkin Music Factory has already been successful in St. John’s, where it was established in 2010, after an earlier launch year in Fredericton.

Gillam and her team of certified music teachers work from

Having recently received $4 million in a Series A funding round, Halifax-based Affinio has now been accepted into the third cohort of Microsoft’s Seattle Accelerator.

The software giant has been hosting its accelerator since late 2014, and announced earlier this month the 10 companies accepted into the third cohort, which will focus on machine learning and data science. The list, chosen from

Daniel Code-McNeil is looking for 10,000 Haligonians who want free stuff.

Code-McNeil is a co-founder of Antigonish-based Lootbag, one of the finalists in the recent I-3 Technology Startup Competition. The company is developing a data-driven app that helps corporations — mainly those in the consumer products space — send free samples to consumers and then assess the feedback. Now it is looking

The Starting Point Entrepreneurship Conference, which is now under way at the Sobey School of Business at St. Mary’s University, has released the following press release:                        

Joey Adler to Address Starting Point Conference                       

Can the world be changed through Entrepreneurship? The focus of the Starting Point Entrepreneurship conference is to foster innovation while encouraging students to ‘think big’ and consider the economic, social and environmental implications of a business – a new way of thinking!

With the support of the Sobey School Business

The Atlantic Canadian accelerator Propel ICT on Wednesday named the companies that will join its most recent cohort, including a full slate of P.E.I. startups and its first member from Cape Breton.

In naming the 38 companies to its first cohort of 2016, Propel has for the first time outlined a lineup of companies that will receive mentorship in all four Atlantic Provinces. The mentoring sessions

A new accelerator for aboriginal entrepreneurs has been established in New Brunswick, and it’s already witnessing great progress from the five teams enrolled in it.

The inaugural Aboriginal Business Accelerator is operated by the Joint Economic Development Initiative, or JEDI, a not-for-profit that supports Aboriginal participation in the New Brunswick economy. It works closely with the federal