Praxes Medical Group, a Halifax company that provides medical advice to teams in remote locations, is marketing its software to clients across the country as part of its expansion program.

Siance 1997, Praxes has provided emergency medical

The Next 36, an academic/mentoring program for undergraduate entrepreneurs, is planning a conference and introductory event in Moncton in September as part of its effort to lure more Atlantic Canadians.

The Next 36 is an annual, three-month

[Editor’s Note: Allan Gates of Bonfire has kindly offered to cover the East Coast Startup Community’s pilgrimage to the Montreal International Startup Festival for us. Here is his first report.]

As dawn breaks over the University of New

Alastair Jarvis proudly says that he was tenant No. 1 at the Hub South Shore, the new co-working space in Mahone Bay.

In fact, he is so enthusiastic about the new facility that he doesn’t like the term “co-working space.” He feels it understates

Last week I wrote a column citing all that had happened in the East Coast Startup Community in first half of the year.  It dealt with a broad range of things that happened on several fronts, from new events, to co-working spaces, to funding, to

Four years after signing up to help encourage community-based innovation in Fredericton, Kelly O’Brien is now launching his own innovative product that could help community groups everywhere.

O’Brien is chief executive officer of BusinessBoard,

Dalhousie University will soon launch an Institute for Big Data Analytics to nurture research into the burgeoning field that has already produced some of the most exciting startups in Atlantic Canada.

As part of the effort to boost data

Four years of research by a team of computer science academics at University of New Brunswick has produced a revolutionary product for detecting and fighting cyber-fraud.

Ara Labs is a new startup that is now beta-testing its cloud-based

There has been considerable buzz in Atlantic Canada each time lean startup guru Ash Maurya, author of the groundbreaking book Running Lean, has visited the region. But there should be even more excitement that the co-author of a worthy companion

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