Bedford, N.S.-based Nova Georgia Properties Ltd. has closed a $640,000 property acquisition in Georgia – another step in its drive to build up a portfolio of residential real estate in the southeastern U.S.

CEO Jamie Nicoll said in an interview

Dalhousie professors Mary Kilfoil and Ed Leach will launch their next lean startup initiative Jan. 30 when they host a meeting for Startup Next.

Kilfoil and Leach last fall shepherded nine teams during their Starting Lean course, which didn’t

Talking to James Stewart of Saint John is like waking up on the set of Minority Report, the Tom Cruise movie about technology that prevents a crime before it happens.

Only the crime, in this case, is drunk driving.

Stewart is the founder and

[Thomas Rankin, Investment Director at Innovacorp, took issue in a recent blog with worries about Series A Crunch. This item previously ran in the Toronto Standard.]

More rare than a humble Kanye? A VC admitting he or she is wrong.

Guess

When Calvin Milbury arrived at the Breakthru Bootcamp at 7:30 Saturday morning in Fredericton, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation CEO found virtually all 47 teams at the meeting and waiting to get into the hall.

He was already impressed

Start-up investors often say they love the companies in Newfoundland and Labrador because they view the entire world—not just Canada—as their market. Last week we got a reminder that companies in Atlantic Canada are learning a few things from

Focusing increasingly on the export market, Seaforth Energy Inc., the Dartmouth-based maker of 50-kilowatt wind turbines, has recently completed installations in Scotland and Italy and is ramping up its sales effort in the Caribbean.

The company

The FounderFuel meeting in Halifax on Tuesday will give Executive Director Ian Jeffrey a chance to explain the program to entrepreneurs and hopefully meet a few of the young businesses that will apply.

Jeffrey said in an interview this week that

About 90 novice entrepreneurs will gather in Fredericton tomorrow to go through the Bootcamp of the 2013 Breakthru competition, the biennial contest for New Brunswick entrepreneurs organized by The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and the law

Neato Entertainment is looking for about 25 Maritime television aficionados willing to test its new technology, which allows you to enhance your TV time with a simple application on your smartphone.

The company, formed last year by TV production

Having recently pivoted to expand its scope, 2nd Act Innovations of Halifax has hired two C-level executives in Silicon Valley to lead its sales and engineering efforts and help to raise a $5 million round of venture capital financing.

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VidCruiter, a Moncton-based video recruitment company, has been accepted into the Canadian Technology Accelerator, or CTA, in Silicon Valley.

CEO Sean Fahey said Tuesday he will spend the next three months traveling between New Brunswick and San