As we celebrate World Ocean Day, Dartmouth celebrates the arrival of an autonomous ship.

Dartmouth’s Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship has an unusual and unplanned visitor: the Mayflower Autonomous Ship, which is recreating the 1620 transatlantic crossing of the famous pilgrim ship the Mayflower.

The ship, which is driven by a pair of solar-powered electric motors, docked at COVE

Focus FS, a St. John's-based workplace safety software maker, has deepened its partnership with German safety company Dräger to help increase sales in the Ontario mining market.

Focus FS announced Tuesday that it would partner with Dräger Canada over several years to work with Ontario Mine Rescue to help improve mining safety. They will deploy the Focus FS Emergency Response software at over 30

Biological diagnostic testing company LuminUltra Technologies was a double winner at the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce's Business Excellence Awards, held last week for the first time in two years.

LuminUltra won the Large Business Award and its CEO Pat Whalen took home the Career Achievement Award. The company makes bacteria and virus tests for wastewater and industrial facilities and is also

The Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia’s annual H2O Conference will be held this year from June 13 to 16 at the Halifax Convention Centre, with several attractions relevant to the startup community.

The event will include a panel on skilled workforce issues June 15 at 10:00 a.m.; a panel about the intersection of the aerospace and bluetech industries featuring such startups as Maritime

Halifax-based Clever Fruit Products, which uses fermentation to produce fruit-based food supplements, will be one of 10 companies to participate in Australia’s FoodTech Tasmania accelerator as it looks to diversify its product offerings.

Clever Fruit CEO Sean Sears said in an interview that he hopes to use the 12-week accelerator as an opportunity to explore producing fermented versions of a

PragmaClin, a St. John’s company that is developing software that lets Parkinson’s patients assess their condition at home, won $47,500 in the first ever Bounce Health Innovation Embryo Grants competition.

Bounce, the organization that supports life sciences companies in Newfoundland and Labrador, awarded over $100,000 in prizes at an event last week. The prizes were awarded in four categories;

Truro software developer Delicious Brains has sold a raft of its intellectual property to Austin, Texas-based WP Engine.

The deal includes five WordPress plugins — pieces of software that enhance website design tool WordPress — that collectively boast about a combined 4 million users. Among the products changing hands is Delicious Brains’ popular Advanced Custom Fields tool, which allows users

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation this month will host a conference to encourage the adoption of artificial intelligence in the province.

The conference titled R3: Accelerating AI Innovation will take place at the Delta Hotels Beausejour in Moncton on June 23. You can find more information and register here.

The R3 series used to be biennial awards for researchers whose work has

The sale of Fredericton transportation software-maker HotSpot to Toronto engineering and technology company IBI Group grew out of repeated collaborations between the two businesses that highlighted their potential for resource sharing, according to brass at both companies.

On Wednesday, IBI announced it had bought HotSpot for an undisclosed price, and IBI Global Director of Innovation Deepak

In its latest labour market white paper, the PEI BioAlliance predicts that Prince Edward Island’s life sciences cluster will employ 3,000 people by 2025 and lays out its plans to create an HR Excellence Initiative to advocate for HR best practices. 

The BioAlliance releases an HR strategy document every five years, and the fourth edition aims to help address the sector’s ongoing staffing crunch.