Two Halifax medtech companies, ABK Biomedical and Densitas, will travel to San Francisco next month to take part in the Dose of the Valley – a mentoring and networking event for Canadian life sciences companies.

The Bay Area is renowned as the global hotbed for information technology startups, and for years Canadian IT companies have been attending 48 Hours in the Valley – an event that helps

As many of our readers know, the union representing reporters, editors and photographers at the Chronicle-Herald in Halifax is now on strike. We want our readers to know our position during the strike as Entrevestor has contributed three articles a week to the Chronicle-Herald for more than three years.

Entrevestor will continue to place three articles a week in the paper, declining requests from the respective parties in the dispute to increase or cut off our contribution during the disruption.

We’ve taken this position because our company has a long-standing agreement with a client, and

After three years, Conceptualiz brought its vision to life: a mobile application for the iPad that can design orthopedic implants personalized to the patient. The current app is exclusively available for research and educational purposes.

The Halifax- and Toronto-based company’s OSSA 3D surgical planning and implant design platform allows orthopedic surgeons to design personalized implants. The

This week in Jobs of the Week, we’re featuring positions in Halifax, including a new posting by Norex and its Pursu.it division.

Pursu.it helps elite athletes find financial support through crowdfunding. The organization is developing a new crowdfunding platform that can also be used by other social organizations. It needs a Ruby engineer to work on the platform.

We also feature postings this

Innovacorp on Thursday awarded $850,000 to 15 Nova Scotian companies as the Nova Scotia innovation agency named the regional and sectoral winners of its I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition.

I-3 is the biennial competition for early stage companies in the province. On Thursday, Innovacorp named the winners of five regions in the province, each of whom will win $100,000. It also named the

Big data and environmental sustainability have become hot topics in recent years. New Brunswick’s Remsoft has been analyzing big data for decades, a foresight that has made the company a world leader in land and forestry management.

The large volume of data relevant to a particular business or sector can be analyzed for insights that lead to better business decisions and higher profits.

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Having been accepted into Toronto’s Fashion Zone in the autumn, Ella of Saint John is planning to launch its online marketplace for used clothes in Canada’s largest city in the spring.

Ella is a mobile app on which women can sell or buy slightly used clothes. The idea is that women who love fashion have closets full of wonderful clothes they might never wear again. They can post the merchandise

Early-stage entrepreneurs with an idea for a product, company or service are asked to apply for the winter 2016 Evolution program at the Genesis Centre at Memorial University in St. John’s.

The Evolution program is an eight-week intensive workshop that helps entrepreneurs validate their business ideas and get them to market.

Delivered in three phases, the program is derived from best practices

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,