Happy Canada Day, everyone. We hope all our readers have had a safe and happy weekend celebrating the country’s 146^th birthday.

Of course, July 1 is also the first day of the second half of the corporate calendar, and a good time to look back at

Progress Magazine this month has published my article on the search for and development of talent for Big Data in Atlantic Canada.

This article grew out of discussions at the Big Data Congress in Saint John in January, at which speakers

Bedford-based NewPace Technology Development Inc. has signed six-figure sales agreements with Nokia Corporation of Finland and an unnamed European company, accelerating the traction of its Rich Communications Service, or RCS, mobile phone

PropelICT, the technology development organization that oversees the Launch36 accelerator, plans to expand into Newfoundland and Labrador within 18 months, and wants to support the growth of larger tech companies across the region.

The

Medusa Medical Technologies Inc. has attracted $900,000 in equity investment from three investors, a sum that will be added to its Atlantic Innovation Fund financing to help develop the next generation of its technology.

Last week, the Halifax

Fresh on the heels of launching on Salesforce, Introhive Inc. has landed $1.5 million in funding from Build Ventures that will be used to enhance the product and attract new customers.

The Fredericton- and Washington, D.C.-based startup just six

A new incubator for mobile telecom companies will open in the former York County Courtroom on Queen Street in Fredericton in September, meaning the New Brunswick Capital will soon be home to two co-working spaces for startups.

Gary Stairs, the

Bill Cheliak doesn’t believe the world needs a new, amazing antibiotic to kill superbugs — lethal strains of pathogens that are resistant to antibiotics. It simply needs ways to make antibiotics more effective. And he believes his company,

Kevin Sullivan’s move to Nova Scotia is part of a healthy development in Atlantic Canada’s life sciences sector. Having lived in the province when he was younger, Sullivan spent 10 years in London, Ont., working for a biotech start-up called Viron

Deloitte has agreed to pay $250,000 in prize money in the next five years in Canada’s Business Model Competition, a program being organized by Norman Newman  Centre for Entrepreneurship at Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business.

The

It’s difficult to say who transmitted the most valuable information at the first Atlantic Venture Forum — the tech experts and investors who flew into Halifax to deliver speeches, or the 22 Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs who pitched their

The Atlantic Venture Forum wrapped up in Halifax yesterday. Here are a few quotes from the conference that are worth repeating:

Communicating with Investors

“If you can't communicate and inspire that poor investor on the other side of the