Ooka Island, the P.E.I. software company dedicated to teaching children to read, has launched the web-based version of its program in time for Charlottetown’s Reading Town week starting on Saturday.

The company, which hired a new CEO and raised

The hours are ticking down to the deadlines to apply for a few of the country’s leading entrepreneurship or startup happenings  -- the EY Entrepreneurs of the Year competition, PropelICT's next cohort  and metabridge.

April 30 is the deadline to

Two veterans of the New Brunswick startup scene are gaining traction with a new data-based product they hope one day will reduce global food waste.

David Baxter and Shawn Carver – both known for their work as mentors – have spent more than two

CarbonCure Technologies, the Halifax-based maker of green building materials, has issued the following press release:

Mutual Materials propels green masonry movement forward with CarbonCure partnership

Cleantech company partners with second

Metamaterial Technologies Inc. has closed a $3.1 million round of funding, which will help the Dartmouth company with its ambitious plans to establish a metamaterials R&D and pilot production facility in Nova Scotia.

The company – which has

It’s strange -- and certainly refreshing – to hear the program manager of a tech accelerator say he doesn’t really care whether startups get any investment once they graduate from his course.

In fact, Sam Legge hopes the 10 companies now going

Bluteau DeVenney, a Halifax-based business consultancy, has issued the following press release:

Bluteau DeVenney Resets, Rebrands and Renews

Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 23, 2015.  Bluteau DeVenney and Company announced today that they have

Ying Tam, the straight-talking CEO of Mindful Scientific, has been named PropelICT’s first Entrepreneur-in-Residence and will become the regional accelerator’s presence in Halifax for the next year or more.

Trevor MacAusland, Propel’s

When Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside reads dismissive comments about Atlantic Canadians made by Canadians elsewhere, he feels the usual irritation.

Case in point: Woodside recently read a commentator in an Ontario newspaper question why a group

About 70 people congregated at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax on Tuesday night to launch an initiative that will help young people to understand that entrepreneurship is a viable career option.

The Yes NS initiative — Yes stands for youth

Trevor MacAusland, the specialist in accelerator programming at PropelICT, will be at the Volta startup house in Halifax tonight from 6 pm to outline plans for Propel’s next cohort.

Propel, which operates a startup accelerator for entrepreneurs

Startup Weekend will be held for the first time on Prince Edward Next weekend, one of three of the collaborative weekend events to take place in Atlantic Canada in the next two months.

Startup Weekend events have been held in more than 100