Our Jobs of the Week column today features openings for a Quality Systems Manager at Protocase in Sydney and a Junior Project Manager at Dash Hudson in Halifax.

Established in 2001, Protocase makes custom electronic enclosures. It focuses on combining advances in software with advanced manufacturing techniques to offer unique custom manufacturing to the engineering, design, and research

With its latest product generating weekly growth of 10 percent, Dartmouth-based edtech company Squiggle Park is attending the Rally accelerator in Orlando, Fla., to improve its performance further.

Co-Founder Julia Dexter was accepted this summer as a fellow at the Florida accelerator, which helps social ventures with their dual mission of producing social change while developing a profitable

Almost two years after winning $25,000 at the first Volta Cohort pitching event, Paul Doerwald has launched his product Clockk, an automated time-tracking app for freelancers and small agencies.  

Doerwald not only launched the product Wednesday but also demoed it that night at the DemoCamp at Volta. The product helps freelancers, such as software developers or graphic designers, to keep track

Tickets are now available for the reception honouring the Atlantic Canadian nominees for the 2019 Ernest C. Manning Innovation Awards, which present cash prizes totalling $145,000 to winners.

The Manning Awards are among the most prestigious competitions for innovation companies in Canada because of the size of the prize package and the rigorous selection process across the country.  

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Halifax-based Talkatoo has raised $700,000 in equity funding and is on the verge of releasing its new voice-recognition software that can eventually be used across a range of platforms.

There’s been a bit of buzz about Talkatoo in Halifax tech circles recently, partly because of CEO Shawn Wilkie’s track record as a serial entrepreneur and partly because of its potential as a

The first Atlantic Technology Summit is slated for next month, to provide a one-day conference for people who work in the IT field and showcase some of the region’s growing companies.

The goal of the conference is to bring together people who work in the digital technology field and provide talks by specialists, both reps from some of the world’s biggest tech companies and home-grown talent.

St. John’s-based Kraken Robotics announced last week that it had secured a contract with a foreign navy to supply it with mine-hunting sonar systems at a value of about $35 million to $40 million.

The maker of unmanned submarine and sonar equipment released a flurry of news in the past month, capped off by the statement last Tuesday about the sonar contract with an unnamed foreign navy.

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Startup Genome, the San Francisco-based organization that assesses and ranks startup ecosystems around the world, has named Chris Crowell its first ambassador in Atlantic Canada.

Crowell is the former Vice-President of Corporate Innovation at Halifax-based Volta, having previously worked at Waterloo, Ont.-based OpenText and Saint John-based Mariner. He has a long history of connecting and

J. Regis Duffy, one of the pillars of the P.E.I. biotech community, and Mohammed Moin, Co-Founder and CEO of Somru BioScience Inc., are the inaugural winners of Synapse’s new Innovator Awards.

Synapse, the agency that oversees the commercialization of research at the University of Prince Edward Island, announced the award winners last week as part of the university’s 50th anniversary

Innovacorp has announced the eight startups that have been accepted into its 2019-20 Innovacorp Accelerate Program and the five winners of the fall Sprint competition.

The Nova Scotia government’s early-stage venture capital agency on Thursday released the names of the winners, who between them will divide more than $500,000 in development capital.

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