Having spent decades promoting innovation in the economy of Canada and its eastern provinces, Jacquelyn Thayer Scott is frustrated that the country is actually regressing compared with its peers.

Scott is the Past President and professor of

Rogers Communications said Tuesday it has bought Halifax-based Internetworking Atlantic Inc. for an undisclosed price to gain a data centre and provide enhanced tech solutions to its Atlantic Canada clients.

The Toronto communications company

Weeks after announcing a $250,000 equity investment, Halifax-based Densitas has received regulatory clearance in the European Union and Canada to sell its first product, DM-Density.

When the company revealed its $250,000 funding from Innovacorp

SkySquirrel, the Halifax startup that uses drones to improve yields in vineyards, is gearing up to launch a new product in 2016 that will help attack a persistent problem in the European wine industry.

SkySquirrel’s drones survey and collect

Adopting a strategy to maintain its fund without fresh investment, GrowthWorks Atlantic has borrowed $1.5 million to cover operating costs and adopted a plan to distribute funds to its shareholders over time.

The Halifax-based venture capital

The DMZ at Ryerson University is looking for startups in Kitchener-Waterloo interested in applying for the Next Big Idea Contest, which the university is organizing in partnership with Innovation Birmingham in the U.K.

The contest is open to

Michael Donovan, Executive Chairman of Halifax- and Toronto-based DHX Media Ltd., has been named Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year by the global consultancy EY.

EY said in a statement that Donovan, who heads a global film and television company

The Velocity Fund has handed four more companies at least $25,000 each to help with their development.

As it does each school term, Velocity, the University of Waterloo’s accelerator, donated money to the best companies in its accelerator

A Nova Scotian who focuses on making individuals aware of their behaviour around money has received a boost after being recognized by a group that works to promote female entrepreneurs.

The SheEO movement’s Radical Generosity initiative helps

Communitech and Velocity have announced expansion plans under which they will take up the space being vacated by Google in the Lang Tannery and support more startups and high-growth companies.

Communitech, Kitchener-Waterloo’s multifaceted

Atlanta’s Courion, which helps identify users online, has paid an undisclosed price to buy Halifax’s SecureReset, which has developed two products for simplifying user passwords and authentication.

SecureReset was owned by the entrepreneurial

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Marketing yourself as an authority (or better yet, an influencer)