The Moncton Cybersocial today will feature two intriguing new companies -- Picomole Instruments, whose device detects cancer through breath analysis, and The Corporate Trade Network, which offers a bartering service to corporations.

The

Innovacorp yesterday released the names of the 25 finalists in its I-3 innovation competition.

I’ve cut-and-pasted below Innovacorp’s list of companies plus a short description of each.

There are a few  – GMS Surface Tech, Mindful Scientific,

Last week I posed the same question to two players in the New Brunswick tech industry, and got identical answers.

What, I asked both Barbara Ells of Tech South East and Larry Sampson of the New Brunswick Information Technology Council, was the

St. John’s-based Verafin, which makes anti-fraud and anti-money-laundering software, announced Thursday it has signed a formal partnership with Open Solutions Inc., a Connecticut company that makes systems that process banking transactions.

The

LED Roadway Lighting is developing the next generation of energy-efficient outdoor lighting, which will feature dimming technology that is triggered during periods of low traffic volume.

Ken Cartmill,  Vice President of Business Development at

The Nova Scotian government is providing $2.63 million in financing to the Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Trust, which hopes to leverage it into $11 million in R&D funding from a range of partners over the next five years.

The Trust issued

Jeff Roach likes the fact that he so frequently runs into his lawyer when he leaves his office.

Not to mention his accountant or other advisers and peers in the tech community.

Roach works in Uptown Saint John, and revels in the fact that his

Cape Breton medical device maker Halifax Biomedical Inc. has secured a $3 million equity investment to help finance the roll-out of its high-resolution imaging system that allows surgeons to monitor changes in artificial joint replacements and

Just back from a successful trade mission to Boston, Jason Richard, CEO of Saint John-based real estate website Prop2go.com, said his company is preparing to move into new market segments, including cars and jobs.

Prop2go’s technology allows

File-sharing enterprise TitanFile Inc. of Halifax has been named the joint winner of an award aimed at recognizing young companies contributing to Canada-U.S. collaboration.

The U.S. Embassy in Ottawa is holding a conference Wednesday titled The

Cape Breton healthcare administration company Health Outcomes Worldwide has secured $840,000 in funding from federal and provincial governments to help with the roll-out of its new how2trak product.

Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia government’s

 With a new in-licensing deal signed and sealed, Sackville, N.B.-based biotech Soricimed Biopharma is preparing to begin its Phase I human tests for its own cancer drug and cancer diagnostic product in 2012.

On Wednesday, the company announced