Twenty-seven thousand times last month, doctors from across Canada collaborated on The Rounds, a social network for medical professionals, to discuss health issues.

The Halifax startup, which launched on Feb. 3, connects doctors from across the country, allowing them to ask questions, create local “groups” and discuss medical issues.

Only doctors are allowed to sign up for the basic service and all the information is double encrypted, so there are no concerns about breaking patient confidentiality.

It has already proved its worth, with more than 1,100 doctors on the application,

Entrepreneurship is about to undergo a rigorous scrutiny in the Region.   A ground-breaking research project has just been launched to study the region’s entrepreneurial culture.  The study, situated at the Sobey School of Business under the direction of Dr. Ellen Farrell, maps the entrepreneurial ecosystem.  It has already begun with the first wave of surveys starting this week. 

Using complex network theory, the powerful analysis will map thousands of interactions amongst hundreds of actors to identify how knowledge and communication are fostering innovation and entrepreneurship.

“If

We’re happy to welcome Rebecca Joseph to Entrevestor as our student intern for 2014.

Rebecca is enrolled in a one-year journalism program at the University of King’s College, having previously completed a Bachelor of Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba.

Rebecca has already proven herself an enthusiastic addition to Entrevestor, and she writes nice clear prose. But what we’re really happy about is to be working with someone with such tremendous technical expertise.

A native of Manitoba, Rebecca is as well travelled as she is knowledgeable. She’s lived in New Zealand and

Having closed two recent deals with international partners, Gogii Games of Moncton is looking forward to gaining more customers and revenue and adopting a more aggressive production schedule in 2014.

The developer of casual games recently struck a partnership with Microsoft to have Windows Phone platforms feature 31 Gogii titles from its back catalogue of iOS-based games. It’s substantial because Windows Phone is the fastest growing platform in the gaming market.

But in a recent interview, Founder and CEO George Donovan spoke more about the company’s distribution with Pocket Gems, a San

Nova Scotia Business Inc. is looking for applicants for LeaderConnect 2014.

LeaderConnect offers Nova Scotian entrepreneurs a one-on-on meeting with any one of almost 50 of the top business people in the province, including John Risley, Kim Mason, Colin Dodds and Frank Sobey.

These people can offer advice on issues ranging from change management to doing business in China.

Anyone interested can apply by April 1 at  www.connectns.ca/leaderconnect . For more information, please contact Nadia Middleton at 902-424-7237 or nmiddleton@nsbi.ca.

Keeping up with shifting trends in advertising, especially advertising in the global context, requires fast reflexes. Ed Clarke’s livelihood depends on having speedy reactions. Fortunately, the CEO of GlobalAdSource, a company that monitors advertising activity around the globe, is able to swiftly spot and react to trends.

St. John’s-based GlobalAdSource gathers and sells information on

Larry Sampson, executive director of the New Brunswick Information Technology Council, is already looking forward to the next Big Data Congress, which he believes will shine a light on the data analytics projects actively being undertaken in Atlantic Canada.

The second annual congress, which wrapped up in Saint John on Wednesday, highlighted how government, large organizations and established businesses can employ data analytics to improve efficiency and performance. It’s the natural follow to the first such event held a year ago, which basically explained what big data is.

Big data or

Launch36, the regional accelerator program, has extended the deadline to apply for its fourth cohort to March 5.

Executive Director Trevor MacAusland said Wednesday he extended the deadline from Feb. 28 after learning of several new companies that need the weekend to complete their application. (Note: an earlier version of this article, as a result of Entrevestor being given the wrong information,  incorrectly said the deadline had been extended to March 2.)

Entrepreneurs who participate in the program connect with experienced mentors and gain valuable advice as well as introductions to

One of the world’s leading experts in the economics of innovation suggested Tuesday that Atlantic Canada should collaborate with new organizations to increase its access to capital and talent and improve the performance of its innovative industries.

In the keynote address at the Big Data Congress in Saint John, Harvard  University Professor Clayton Christensen explained to more than 700 delegates why developed economies are having trouble channeling capital into meaningful innovation.

His 90-minute speech strayed from the conference’s central theme of using big data to revitalize

Sally Ng is looking for a few good startups.

The Executive Director of the Planet Hatch incubator and ACcelR8 program has sent out a notice saying the program’s first cohort has graduated and it is time to bring in the next crew. The applications are open until March 5. Ng will host information sessions on the program Thursday, Feb. 27, at 5:15 and 6:15 pm at Planet Hatch in Fredericton.

She is encouraging any startup and/or entrepreneur to apply, even if they are early in their development.

“By completing the application it helps the startups stay on our radar and also helps us have