We've written often of the economic gains that take place when companies exit, and Lunenburg-based WoodsCamp Technologies is making the case for us with its job postings. 

We had no new job postings on the Entrevestor Job Board in the past week, so our Jobs of the Week column this week will once again focus on Woodscamp, which has posted four openings on our site. The company in June said it had

Cathy Simpson, T4G’s current vice-president of people and culture, has been reading Hit Refresh, a new book by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

The book is about transformation – both Nadella’s own personal transformation and transformation inside Microsoft – and Simpson is excited to bring this spirit to her new role as CEO at TechImpact.

“I am very passionate about our industry, how we overcome

NeoThermal Energy from Halifax won a $500 Visa gift card at Volta Labs’ Women Taking Over the World with Tech pitching competition on Tuesday. The event saw five early-stage female-led tech companies present at the Volta offices on Barrington street.

The original plan was for the first-place winner to take home a one-year membership to the Centre for Women and Business but before the pitches, it

Female-focused competitions, programs and funding opportunities are fantastic and necessary ways to encourage women to join tech and business fields. But sometimes all it takes is a quick email blast and a few bottles of wine to get the ball rolling.  

That’s how a recent all-female meet-up came together a few weeks ago in Newfoundland.  

Sarah Murphy, who handles business development for Harbr

Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa commonly lose 60 per cent of their crop before it gets to market, and that number is way too high for Damilare Odumosu.

The Nigeria native has been a student for the past year in the Masters of Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship program at University of New Brunswick. And he’s been using his time in Fredericton to build a company to tackle the problem.

All

Halifax-based Volta Labs, one of Canada’s largest innovation hubs, and national law firm McInnes Cooper have announced a corporate partnership.

McInnes Cooper will join Volta in its new 60,000 sq. ft. space with a permanent satellite office, making it the first corporate partner in Volta’s community space in the Maritime Centre on Halifax’s Barrington Street.

McInnes Cooper will continue to

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and New Brunswick Innovation Foundation are providing a total of $5.5 million in funding to the Marine Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence at the University of New Brunswick.

The two agencies said in a statement Wednesday that the funding would be used to support both the R&D expertise and pay for equipment at the centre, which is known as the

Halifax-based Densitas, a breast imaging analytics innovator, has signed a partnership with Leeds Teaching Hospitals in the U.K. to bring its breast screening technologies into routine clinical workflow.

The Densitas software provides an automated mechanism for quantifying and recording breast tissue density, a risk factor for breast cancer in women. Dense breasts can mask cancerous cells. Dense

Participants in LaunchDal’s LaunchPad Accelerator will showcase their ventures at its fifth annual Demo Day on August 7. Participating ventures include an online convenience store and a company that is creating a software for mental health.

The 10-week program, which is offered at the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship at Dalhousie University, provided each business with $10,000 and the

You may have seen those tear-jerking YouYube videos in which colourblind people use special glasses to see the world in full colour for the first time. Until now, those heavily tinted glasses are the only market solution that lets colourblind folks see the rainbow.

Now, Halifax chemist and entrepreneur Gabrielle Masone has found a way to put the magic of those glasses into a contact lens. This