Nova Scotia Business Inc. has invested a further $800,000 in Dartmouth e-voting outfit Intelivote Systems Inc., helping the company to enhance its product line, market its services and possibly find a buyer.

The industrial agency said Friday its

Halifax-based co-browsing startup GoInstant has agreed to sell out to Salesforce.com of San Francisco for more than $70 million, exiting less than a year after raising $1.7 million from a host of mainly Silicon Valley investors.

A person

For the second time in a year, an Atlantic Canadian company will attend SeedCamp New York, the prestigious tech mentorship gathering in the world’s financial capital.

Jordan Smith, a Halifax entrepreneur whose OneLobby operates a social network

Erik Gingles describes himself as a “socialist entrepreneur’’ and believes his eponymous SaaS product will make money while helping worthy causes.

Gingle (he dropped the ‘s’ so the name looks a bit like Google) is a mobile live streaming app

Micah Peterson last Tuesday asked potential investors for $500,500 in funding for his customer support software company Twofowzand – $500,000 to help roll out the product, and $500 to take his wife on a trip to Halifax.

The Petersons’ third

Tapajyoti Das and his colleagues at LeadSift exemplify the spirit of the Launch36 technology accelerator – maybe more than we realize right now.

The main reason I say this is that LeadSift is a fascinating company, with algorithm-based

Last Tuesday was a pretty good day for Paula Morand: she got to present her company at the Launch36 Demo Day and found out she had been named the New Brunswick Female Entrepreneur of the Year for 2012.

The reason for all the excitement is that

As it prepares to roll out its collaboration software, Tabture has already received investment commitments totaling $100,000 from Mariner Partners Chairman Gerry Pond and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

The commitments are part of a

Tribeonomics Inc. is trying to combat a problem posed by anonymity on the internet.

Companies and governments are often battered across the social media spectrum because a nameless, faceless online mob opposes what they are trying to do.  And

One night a few months ago, a flurry of tweets flew out of New Brunswick congratulating Xiplinx, one of the companies going through the Launch36 accelerator, in landing a really impressive client as an early adopter.

I hadn’t heard of Xiplinx at

If there’s one conclusion to draw from the Launch36 Demo Day in Dieppe, N.B., it would probably be that the 250 lucky souls in the audience were witnessing the absolute apex of modern regional development.

I say probably because there are so

Twelve years since its launch, Atlantic Hydrogen Inc. is going through a watershed year.

The Fredericton company, whose technology extracts carbon from natural gas, is now in a key phase of commercializing both its platforms. And as it moves