When the Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards are handed out in April, two Atlantic Canadian companies will be among the finalists.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson has been nominated for the Joe Fresh Fashion Innovation Award, which will be presented to a company that is innovating how we experience, consume or interact with fashion through technology. Founded by Thomas Rankin and Tomek Niewiarowski, Dash

SimplyCast, a Dartmouth-based leader in marketing automation, has named Michael Brien as its new Board Chair, replacing J. William Ritchie, who will remain as a board member.

With clients in 175 countries, SimplyCast is a leading provider of interactive and multi-channel communication software for organizations around the world.

“Michael has been a member of SimplyCast’s board since 2015 and we

Cleantech startup Eosense has found new backing from former High Liner Foods CEO Henry Demone and from St. Francis Xavier University, the institution where Eosense was born.

The Dartmouth-based company has spent seven years developing and marketing instruments that detect carbon dioxide seeping from soil. With clients like University of California at Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute in

It’s not uncommon for a tech specialist to advocate bootstrapping. But if that specialist is a VC investor from Silicon Valley, people tend to pay attention.

A roomful of tech enthusiasts certainly paid attention Thursday night in Halifax when Eric Bahn, of 500 Startups, outlined the ways to avoid giving up equity in their ventures. In private meetings and his speech at Start Grind Halifax, Bahn

The Canadian tech community has come together to oppose the entry restrictions in the U.S. imposed on people from some majority-Muslim countries.

More than 150 people (as of late Sunday) signed an open letter to the world opposing the move by the U.S. government. The organizers are inviting more people from the community to add their names by emailing cdntechwithoutborders@gmail.com.

The move

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation did something on Saturday it’s never done before – it held a second bootcamp for the participants of its Breakthru competition.

The 12 semifinalists for the startup competition – which will award $1 million in prizes on March 23 – assembled in Fredericton for a focused day of mentorship on pitching, fundraising and value proposition. It followed an initial

An opening for a product development engineer at Moncton-based MASITEK Instruments Inc. is the focus of our Job of the Week column today.

MASITEK is a six-year-old company that produces hardware to help food and beverage producers prevent damage to containers and other accidents that can jam and delay a production line. Its main product is like a fake bottle with pressure-sensitive devises. It

Entrepreneurs believe they can change the world, but Peter Gifford advises the founders he mentors that their optimism needs to be grounded in reality.

Gifford is entrepreneur-in-residence with regional accelerator Propel ICT in St. John’s. Propel aims to mentor and graduate over 400 startups across Atlantic Canada by 2019. The group is ramping up in Newfoundland and Labrador, where it began

The federal government announced Thursday that it will contribute $9.2 million to Springboard Atlantic, the organization that supports the commercialization of research at Atlantic Canadian universities and colleges.

Navdeep Bains, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and the minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, said ACOA will make the

B4checkin Inc., the company that provides cloud-based software to the hospitality industry, has announced that its payment solution, b4easypost, is now being offered by the American company Agilysys.

Halifax-based b4checkin said this week that b4easypost is now available to users of Lodging Management System, or LMS, Agilysys’ property management system. Alpharetta, Ga.-based Agilysys provides a