Memorial University’s Research Innovation Office is accepting applications from startups for its Insight Business Consulting Program, which allows MBA students to consult for early-stage technology companies.

Funded by the Atlantic Canada

Dartmouth drug discovery company IMV has entered creditor protection in Canada and is pursuing Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. months after the Nasdaq warned that its shares had dropped below the minimum price required to maintain a

Social Media Day Halifax, a day-long social media marketing conference, will be held at the Cineplex in Halifax's Bayer’s Lake on June 9.

The event is one of many that will be held around the world next month as part of an initiative started by

Dalhousie University is receiving a $154 million grant from the federal government, representing the largest single research funding deal in the institution’s history, to conduct “the most intensive investigation ever into the ocean’s role in

Matthew Martel, previously COO of Halifax non-profit the Black Business Initiative, will replace Rustum Southwell as its CEO.

Southwell will retire Monday but oversee the transition to Martel’s leadership as an advisor.

Martel is a serial

Halifax-based BlueNode, which sells logistics software for the shipping industry, has been acquired by San Marcos, California’s Everstream Analytics for an undisclosed price in what BlueNode CEO Louis Beaubien has described as a bid to diversify his

Halifax’s Union.Dev, which makes administrative software for labour unions, now has clients across Canada and in several American states, with its cross-border expansion effort bolstered by the release of its second product.

Founded in 2018 by

Emera IdeaHUB Program Manager Barrinique Griffin has joined the board of directors of Onside, which aims to foster inclusive innovation in Nova Scotia.

Griffin, who spent four years at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Education & Development before

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced two new projects worth $4.3 million — a $1.3 million initiative to create a digital engineering platform for designing oceans assets and a $3 million plan to develop seafloor imaging tech for fishing

Dalhousie University’s CDL Atlantic, part of the internationally noted Creative Destruction Lab network of startup accelerators, has opened applications for its 2023 cohort, including a general stream, dubbed Prime, and a bluetech stream, Oceans.

Laval, Que.-based Dispersa, which has its research and development operations in Sydney, has raised $3 million of funding split evenly between equity and debt, with the round led by economic development agency Invest Nova Scotia.

Dispersa makes

Wayne Sumarah, CEO of industry group Digital Nova Scotia, will retire at the end of May after three years on the job.

Sumarah, a marking executive who previously worked in the telecommunications sector, presided over a 50 percent increase in the