Volta Labs in Halifax next weekend will be the Nova Scotian base for the Global Game Jam, or GGJ, a worldwide weekend event that unites creative minds to develop games.

The 48-hour event will give participants a chance to develop video games, or more traditional amusements like board and card games.

The event is set to begin at 5 pm on Jan. 29 at the facility at the Maritime Centre office on

The symbolism of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to southern Ontario last week was tremendously important for his government because it gave important signals about its industrial strategy.

Trudeau toured the Toronto-Waterloo innovation corridor, announcing funding for a few key projects and opening Google’s shiny new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener. And throughout the tour,

Venn Innovation Inc. and Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge have entered a multi-year partnership to provide more opportunities for New Brunswick’s future entrepreneurs.

Under the partnership announced this month, Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge will establish an office in Moncton’s Venn Centre and develop several initiatives to promote youth entrepreneurship.

Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge,

This week in Jobs of the Week, we’re featuring three positions in Fredericton, with TotalPave and CyberPsyc; and one in Brampton, Ontario with Prism Tradeshow Lighting.

TotalPave is a growth stage startup company that gives municipalities the ability to collect valuable, objective road condition data using smartphone devices for a fraction of the costs incurred by current collection methods.

For Trish Kiley, president and CEO of digital media company Advanced Publishing, success in business means anticipating trends in publishing and technology.

Forward-thinking is essential because the Saint John, N.B., company helps publishers make digital versions of their publications for viewing on multiple devices.

Kiley anticipated the boom in phablet use in 2012. Phablets are phones with

This is a tale of two Prime Ministers Trudeau, divided by about 30 kilometres and just over 32 years.

The most recent of these prime ministers, Justin Trudeau, visited Kitchener on Thursday to open the city’s new Google office. Standing in the clutch of reporters in the packed lobby, I was reminded of a chilly night in November 1983 when I travelled to Guelph to report on Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

This will be the year when we begin to buy stuff on our cell phones.

That is the main forecast from Deloitte Canada in its 2016 predictions for the Technology, Media and Telecom markets. The global consultancy on Wednesday released its annual outlook for the TMT segment, which has become a post-New Year rite for the tech community.

Deloitte said that the tech world this year will feature the

In its 2016 predictions on leading high-growth industries, Deloitte Canada has highlighted one of the black marks in the tech industries: the lack of women working in the field.

The Deloitte Technology, Media and Telecom predictions are customarily a thorough examination of what innovative products will be hot with customers in a given year. But this year, Duncan Stewart, Deloitte Canada’s

In a little less than two weeks, there will be not one but two sets of rules overseeing equity crowdfunding in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. And then, there will have to be a few test cases to more fully understand how this crowdfunding thing works in Canada.

On Jan. 25, the so-called Crowdfunding Exemption will come into effect in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and three other provinces (most

The Moncton Cybersocial and Angel Den that we wrote about last week has been delayed by a week because of a winter storm.

The event -- which will feature executives from McCain Foods and its startup partners Resson Aerospace and Fiddlehead Technology -- will now take place on Jan. 20. The event is free but attendees are asked to RSVP here.