One of Canada’s leading specialists in innovation on Tuesday urged Atlantic Canada’s entrepreneurs to embrace federal government procurement as a means of driving their products to market.

Tom Jenkins, the Executive Chairman of Waterloo-based

TopLog is three entrepreneurs from three countries who will soon have three doctorates in computer science.  And they have a single mission: to develop a company that makes life easier for network system administrators.

“TopLog turns system data

When Celsius Game Studios Inc. releases its space-trading game Drifter later this year, it will feature planets or star systems named after five real-life Earthlings, who have paid handsomely for the naming rights.

Based in St. John’s, N.L.,

A corporation or a partnership?

That’s a question facing a lot of founding teams early in their startup life, and it keeps coming up until they finally decide to incorporate.

As with so many business decisions, the correct answer depends on

CompCamp, the group dedicated to teaching teens to code, has issued the following press release on its Girls Tech League championship this weekend:

Halifax, NS, April 9, 2013 – The Girls Tech League, a programing competition for junior high

Pitch Perfect, a spinoff from Halifax consultancy Headspace Design, will make its long-awaited debut in the autumn, after its developers conduct beta tests in the next few months.

The new company allows commercial design consultants and other

The KIRA Awards' Selection Committee yesterday announced the finalists for the 2013 Knowledge Industry Recognition and Achievement award.

The winners of the New Brunswick award will be named at a dinner May 2 at the Fredericton Convention

The Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Network invited me to speak yesterday on a subject I hadn’t thought about much – early adopters. It led me to ask what makes a good early adopter, and who’s the best early adopter in Atlantic Canada.

It was a

DemoCamp Halifax will hold a mini, mid-season event on the night of Sunday, April 21, at Durty Nelly’s Pub on Argyle Street.

Billed as Mini DemoCamp Halifax, the event will feature a keynote address by David Crow, a co-founder of StartupNorth

Equals6, the Halifax-based professional social network for students, will soon launch a crowdfunding scholarship program in which people or organizations can help students raise funds for tuition over the Internet.

The two-year-old company has

The good patrons of Picaroons Brewtique may soon be helping to produce medical compounds each time they hoist a pint at the Fredericton microbrewery.

Picaroons is in talks with Fredericton biotech Mycodev Group Inc. on a plan to help the startup

When I asked Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia what her three priorities will be as the new CEO of Digital Nova Scotia, she paused and answered: attracting talent, bringing women into ITC, and technical education.

Then she added advocacy for digital