A city councillor in Saint John has put forth a motion for the city to create an early adopter program that could help budding businesses find and land government contracts.

Councillor Greg Norton presented this motion to council early February. He

Having raised US$2 million late last year, janitorial software producer Swept is now beefing up its team and aiming to hire just the right staff.

And the Halifax-based company is also doing its best to make sure the hires take place in Atlantic

The fourth annual Starting Point Student Entrepreneurship Conference is coming to a close today and organizers say the number of participants reached a record this year.

A total of 185 students registered for the three-day conference put on by the

Startup Canada, the organization that promotes entrepreneurship across Canada, has opened applications and nominations for the 2018 Startup Canada Awards.

Anyone who wants to nominate themselves or someone else for an award can do so here before

Fredericton-based KnowCharge Inc. is suing the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, the First Angel Network, and some of their current and former officers, seeking $11 million in damages.

KnowCharge, a 10-year-old company that makes

Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Computer Science, is approaching its goal of doubling the proportion of female students entering its programs in 2018-19.

As part of the university's 200th anniversary celebrations, Dal plans to offer at least 60

A New Brunswick clean energy startup is participating in an accelerator that will help them develop their business south of the border.

Last November, Stash Energy was chosen to participate in the Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) for

Guy Earle is a standup comedian with a huge ambition: He hopes to change the way we diagnose hearing loss.

Earle is the president of Halifax-based IObIO, which is building a portable device called the BioBox. The box captures and analyzes data for

We have three positions to highlight from Harbr, Masitek Instruments and Pharm3r in our Jobs of the Week column today.

Harbr, which is searching for a React Front End Developer, is a Halifax-based company that developed a mobile app for big

Atlantic Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has been named one of five groups to share $950 million in federal funding to establish innovation hubs across Canada over the next five years.

Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic

When Kiera Devine flew to New York with her baby girl, the new mom left her bulky stroller at home because she expected to be able to rent baby equipment in New York. When she couldn’t, her new business — Parental Marketplace — was born.

Parental

Garago Software Inc., which makes software for local governments, has received a $205,000 investment from Island Capital Partners, with which it hopes to sell its product across North America this year.

Founded in Stratford, PEI, Garago has