Last week I wrote a column citing all that had happened in the East Coast Startup Community in first half of the year.  It dealt with a broad range of things that happened on several fronts, from new events, to co-working spaces, to funding, to

Four years after signing up to help encourage community-based innovation in Fredericton, Kelly O’Brien is now launching his own innovative product that could help community groups everywhere.

O’Brien is chief executive officer of BusinessBoard,

Dalhousie University will soon launch an Institute for Big Data Analytics to nurture research into the burgeoning field that has already produced some of the most exciting startups in Atlantic Canada.

As part of the effort to boost data

Four years of research by a team of computer science academics at University of New Brunswick has produced a revolutionary product for detecting and fighting cyber-fraud.

Ara Labs is a new startup that is now beta-testing its cloud-based

There has been considerable buzz in Atlantic Canada each time lean startup guru Ash Maurya, author of the groundbreaking book Running Lean, has visited the region. But there should be even more excitement that the co-author of a worthy companion

Happy Canada Day, everyone. We hope all our readers have had a safe and happy weekend celebrating the country’s 146^th birthday.

Of course, July 1 is also the first day of the second half of the corporate calendar, and a good time to look back at

Progress Magazine this month has published my article on the search for and development of talent for Big Data in Atlantic Canada.

This article grew out of discussions at the Big Data Congress in Saint John in January, at which speakers

Bedford-based NewPace Technology Development Inc. has signed six-figure sales agreements with Nokia Corporation of Finland and an unnamed European company, accelerating the traction of its Rich Communications Service, or RCS, mobile phone

PropelICT, the technology development organization that oversees the Launch36 accelerator, plans to expand into Newfoundland and Labrador within 18 months, and wants to support the growth of larger tech companies across the region.

The

Medusa Medical Technologies Inc. has attracted $900,000 in equity investment from three investors, a sum that will be added to its Atlantic Innovation Fund financing to help develop the next generation of its technology.

Last week, the Halifax

Fresh on the heels of launching on Salesforce, Introhive Inc. has landed $1.5 million in funding from Build Ventures that will be used to enhance the product and attract new customers.

The Fredericton- and Washington, D.C.-based startup just six

A new incubator for mobile telecom companies will open in the former York County Courtroom on Queen Street in Fredericton in September, meaning the New Brunswick Capital will soon be home to two co-working spaces for startups.

Gary Stairs, the