The decline of journalism, so well documented, has produced collateral casualties in an associated industry: public relations.

Journalists and PR professionals have always been entwined in an uneasy dependency. They need one another to thrive. They get along socially, sharing the same love of language, art and gossip. And their relationship is usually tainted by mutual contempt. (Journalists

The Atlantic Venture Forum has opened applications for startups hoping to present at its two-day conference in early May in Halifax.

The eighth annual AVF, which will take place May 6 and 7 at the Lord Nelson Hotel, is a meeting place for Atlantic Canadian founders and investors from inside and outside the region.

As well as keynote speakers, there are presentations by both early- and

Fredericton agtech company SomaDetect has announced that the application programing interface, or API, of Valley Agricultural Software, the world’s largest provider of dairy management software, will be integrated into SomaDetect’s technology.

The integration will enable SomaDetect’s software to synchronize with any milking equipment using VAS’s dairy herd management software, DairyComp. Founded

GrowDoc, a startup with a mobile app that helps identify sick cannabis plants, will move on to national competition after winning La Coupe Des Startups at Université de Moncton Thursday night.

The Moncton-based company will receive a $1,000 grant from organizer Regroupement des jeunes chambres de commerce du Québec (RJCCQ) (Youth Chambers of Commerce of Quebec). Later this year, it will

With entrepreneurship gaining momentum in St. John’s, Memorial University of Newfoundland has promoted in-house to fill its new position of Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Paula Mendonça received her PhD in biology from MUN and she has been working in the university’s Technology Transfer and Commercialization Office, or TTCO, for several years.

In her new position, Mendonça aims to

Later this year, Ulaş Güntürkün hopes to have a product on the market that can dramatically improve performance and cut costs of communications between autonomous underwater vehicles and other submarine equipment.

Güntürkün is the Founder and CEO of Halifax-based Marecomms, which has devised a product called the Robust Acoustic Modem, or ROAM. This modem uses sound waves to transmit and receive

Thank you to everyone who has filled out our survey! You’ve helped us generate metrics on the region’s startup ecosystem and you’ve helped Australians recover from devastating wildfires.

When we launched our survey this year, we promised to donate $10 to the Canadian Red Cross’s Australia Wildfire Relief campaign for every completed survey we accepted by Feb. 10. We’ve kept that promise. On Wednesday, we donated $1,330 to the Red Cross to help alleviate the suffering in Australia -- $10 for each of the 133 surveys we accepted by the deadline.  

But we still need more surveys. And I’ll

The federal and Nova Scotia governments on Wednesday announced more than $1.4 million in funding for two ocean-related companies and a support organization.

Halifax-based life sciences company DeNova, which is developing a sustainable source of protein for fish feed and animal food, received the lion’s share of the funding with more than $900,000. Sedna Technologies, based in Dartmouth, received

Dartmouth-based Sona Nanotech is developing a rapid screening test for the Coronavirus, a fatal disease that has spread around the world.

Sona is using its nanotechnology in the development of a rapid screening test for the novel Coronavirus, known as nCoV19, the company said in a statement.

The virus was first detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in December. There have since been more

Away from the glitz of this week’s Academy Award ceremonies, one story that didn’t get covered by the global media was a budding partnership that shows how quickly a young Cape Breton company is growing.

Tara Milburn, the Founder and CEO of Sydney-based Ethical Swag, was in Los Angeles and meeting with Red Carpet Green Dress, a global organization that advocates sustainable design in the fashion