There’s a new trend developing in Canadian technology, and it ain’t happening in Atlantic Canada.

This is the year of the tech initial public offering in Canada, with companies like Shopify, Hootsuite, Stingray and Vision Critical likely to list their shares on public markets. In an IPO, a company selling shares on a stock exchange for the first time after a rigorous regulatory approval process.

These companies are generally more advanced than any Atlantic Canadian startup, so it’s not fair to criticize the East Coast startups not joining in the party. But it is fair to question why

HotSpot Parking is moving into the U.S. in partnership with Charlotte, N.C.-based mobile payments specialist Passport – a move that will soon increase HotSpot’s accessible market by 100 times.

The Fredericton startup announced Tuesday that it has struck a partnership with Passport under which the North Carolina company will use Hotspot’s technology to link merchants in with the Passport

Ooka Island, the P.E.I. software company dedicated to teaching children to read, has launched the web-based version of its program in time for Charlottetown’s Reading Town week starting on Saturday.

The company, which hired a new CEO and raised capital last year, has competed a year-and-a-half of work on a new product and website. Both will be launched this weekend as part of the reading

The hours are ticking down to the deadlines to apply for a few of the country’s leading entrepreneurship or startup happenings  -- the EY Entrepreneurs of the Year competition, PropelICT's next cohort  and metabridge.

April 30 is the deadline to enter the EY Entrepreneur of the Year competition. This annual extravaganza picks winners from each region in the country. The Atlantic champion will be crowned at a gala dinner in St. John’s on Oct. 8.

Of special interest to the startup community is the Emerging Entrepreneur category, which was won last year by Introhive of Fredericton.

Two veterans of the New Brunswick startup scene are gaining traction with a new data-based product they hope one day will reduce global food waste.

David Baxter and Shawn Carver – both known for their work as mentors – have spent more than two years getting Fiddlehead Technology off the ground. The startup has developed Forecast Guardian, which helps food companies forecast the demand for

CarbonCure Technologies, the Halifax-based maker of green building materials, has issued the following press release:

Mutual Materials propels green masonry movement forward with CarbonCure partnership

Cleantech company partners with second producer in Pacific Northwest .

One of the Pacific Northwest’s longest serving masonry producers is set to install CarbonCure’s CO2 sequestration technology in their flagship plants. With operations in Oregon and Washington, Mutual Materials is a regional leader in masonry best practices. The addition of CarbonCure to its plants in Kent, WA and

Metamaterial Technologies Inc. has closed a $3.1 million round of funding, which will help the Dartmouth company with its ambitious plans to establish a metamaterials R&D and pilot production facility in Nova Scotia.

The company – which has developed revolutionary materials that deflect, enhance or absorb light -- has raised $2 million from Innovacorp. It comprises a $1.5 million venture

Bluteau DeVenney, a Halifax-based business consultancy, has issued the following press release:

Bluteau DeVenney Resets, Rebrands and Renews

Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 23, 2015.  Bluteau DeVenney and Company announced today that they have shifted their focus to growing companies through their new custom programs.   “We want to support more entrepreneurs to build high-growth companies right here in Atlantic Canada”, said Michael DeVenney, Managing Partner of Bluteau DeVenney, “To do our part, we hit reset – a new brand, a clear voice, and a suite of programs for businesses starting up

Ying Tam, the straight-talking CEO of Mindful Scientific, has been named PropelICT’s first Entrepreneur-in-Residence and will become the regional accelerator’s presence in Halifax for the next year or more.

Trevor MacAusland, Propel’s Vice-President of Business Dev elopement, introduced Tam at a meeting at the Volta startup house in Halifax Thursday night, at which they outlined plans for the

When Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside reads dismissive comments about Atlantic Canadians made by Canadians elsewhere, he feels the usual irritation.

Case in point: Woodside recently read a commentator in an Ontario newspaper question why a group of Ontarians would visit Fredericton when “the city contains nothing but snow.”

“They think we’re so backward,” Woodside said.

“They don’t think