It’s a little-known fact that IBM’s R&D team for cybersecurity is headquartered in Fredericton — all because of a transformative exit announced in 2011.

IBM that year agreed to buy Q1 Labs, a Waltham, Mass.-based IT startup that had begun in the New Brunswick capital a decade earlier. Q1’s chief technology officer Sandy Bird now heads IBM’s research into the fight against cybercrimes from his

Atlantic Canada needs more startups, more immigrants, greater links with hotspots like Toronto and Boston, and more capital from huge tech corporations, the panel at Entrevestor’s luncheon said Wednesday.

The panel of experts applauded the growth and collaboration in the current startup community. And they outlined how their organizations are going to help that growth to continue in the coming

Modest Tree Media Inc., a Halifax SaaS company that offers 3D simulation and training software, has entered a three-year licensing agreement with the Canadian Department of National Defence.

The agreement lets the department use the company’s Modest3D suite, a software that rapidly creates 3D interactive scenarios, which means anyone can create three-dimensional scenarios and animations without

Red Meat Games, a video game development studio, has expanded its offices into Halifax to develop its new horror-puzzle game, Bring to Light.

“The expansion into Halifax made a lot of sense in terms of financing and talent perspectives,” said Keith Maske, the CEO of Red Meat Games, a video game development company.

Maske, who has more than 15 years of experience in the gaming industry, started

Leading Edge Geomatics, a New Brunswick-based provider of aerial survey and geomatics services, has sold a majority stake to Montreal private equity firm Novacap for an undisclosed sum.

Though the price was not revealed, there’s no doubt this is a significant deal for Atlantic Canada. Founded by Canadian military veterans in 2008, Leading Edge has established itself as a leader in the field of

Travis McDonough, the CEO of Kinduct Technologies, will be the keynote speaker at the Halifax Chamber of Commerce’s annual fall dinner on Thursday.

McDonough founded Kinduct, an athlete management system that helps clients find information on the human body and specific athletes. Kinduct supplies its software, which draws data from over 500 sources, to more than 100 professional and elite sports

Appili Theraputics, an anti-infective drug development company, received a US$1.2 million (C$1.5 million) grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program.

The Halifax company said in a press release it will use the funds to develop a compound for its ATI-1503 antibiotic program. ATI-1503 will be able to treat drug-resistant bacteria called Gram-negative

We’re delighted to have received such a great response for our luncheon in Halifax today, and to have Julie Robinson, a McInnes Cooper Partner specializing in startups, joining us as moderator.

At noon today at the World Trade and Convention Centre, Entrevestor and Charcoal Marketing will host “Atlantic Canada’s Startup Industry – By The Numbers”. This luncheon, sponsored by McInnes Cooper with

The two co-founders of Graphite Innovation & Technologies Inc. are set to fly off to international events this week — two different events on two different continents. It’s another step forward for two guys who a year ago were Dalhousie University students with no idea they were about to found a business.

Mo AlGermozi is scheduled to fly to Qingdao, China, for the finals of the 2017 Global

The delegates at Big Data Congress 2017 on Monday were advised to get used to the idea of “predapting” to changing technologies and economic conditions.

Predapting – according to BDC keynote speaker Rebecca Costa – is preparing to adapt. And the socio-biology from Silicon Valley told the Congress that we all better get ready to predapt because information is flooding over us in unprecedented