Halifax-based Densitas, whose software helps assess the density of breasts during mammograms, has announced that Prince Edward Island has become the second province, after Nova Scotia, to integrate its software across its screening program.

The Densitas software -- named Densitas densityai --  provides an automated mechanism for quantifying and recording breast tissue density, a risk factor for

Ross Arsenault, a Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer at Halifax oceantech company Ashored Innovations, has won the $10,000 first prize at the Canadian finals of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards.

Arsenault, who is now completing the Masters of Technology, Entrepreneurship and Innovation program at Saint Mary’s University, received the award at a competition in Toronto last month.

Trip Ninja has struck a partnership with Britain’s A1 Travel Deals under which the Halifax company’s FareStruture technology will be integrated with Globehunters.com, a subsidiary of A1 Travel serving the U.K.

Trip Ninja is a software-as-a-service company that has built a travel planning and booking platform to help travellers book the cheapest routes for multi-city travel. FareStructure

Having adopted a new structure over the past year, Island Water Technologies is hoping to double installations of its Sentry unit this year, focusing on its key markets of California and the U.K.

Charlottetown-based IWT last year took on capital to finance a restructuring, so it became a holding company for two main subsidiaries. Sentry uses a real-time bio-electrode sensor to collect and

The undergraduate team from Saint Mary’s University finished third this weekend in the New England finals of the international Venture Capital Investment Competition, or VCIC

The team finished one point behind the silver medalists from Cornell, while the team from Dartmouth College won the event.

The VCIC is an international competition in which teams of graduate and undergraduate students

Thank you to all those who have filled in our survey – the response has been fantastic! We’ve received 105 completed surveys in just a few weeks, meaning we’ll be donating more than $1,000 to Australian wildfire relief.

But it’s not enough. We still want more survey responses, and we want to do more for the Red Cross. So we’re extending the deadline for another week. For every survey we accept

Eight startup founders will get a chance to pitch before venture capitalists in Halifax during BDO’s VC Pitch Day.

Now in its fifth year, VC Pitch Day connects Atlantic Canada’s tech entrepreneurs to some of the country’s top investors for the opportunity to secure capital and receive actionable feedback.

The Halifax event will take place on March 31 and is one of six VC Pitch Day events taking

An opening for an Associate Product Manager at Dash Hudson in Halifax and two positions at Protocase in Sydney headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Protocase has openings for a Software Developer and a Junior Web Developer. Established in 2001, the company makes custom electronic enclosures. It focuses on combining advances in software with advanced manufacturing techniques to offer

Planet Hatch, Fredericton’s entrepreneurship centre, has accepted four companies into the latest cohort of its Export Igniter program, which helps participants to scale in foreign markets.

The fourth cohort of the program, which has already graduated 15 Fredericton-area companies, began Jan. 21 with an official kick-off at Planet Hatch.

"We are very excited about the companies participating in

Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies, a company that enables concrete producers to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete, has been named 2020 North American Cleantech Company of the Year by San Francisco’s Cleantech Group.

This is the first time a Canadian company has won the prestigious award from the group that provides research, consulting and events to boost sustainable growth powered