The federal government on Wednesday lent $1 million to two biotech companies that have grown out of Dalhousie University’s research facilities.

Greg Kerr, Member of Parliament for West Nova, announced that the Atlantic Canada Opportunities

The team from GoVenture World will have five minutes on Sept. 23 to explain a massive project that they have been working on since 2006.

But if Mathew Georghiou and Bill Faulkner can build an online game that could change the face of

Laurie Dolhan is fanatical about “buying local”, and she’s gearing up to take that message regional.

Dolhan is the President of ContractMe.ca, a website devoted to linking up local service providers and small businesses with potential clients,

Blair Ryan got the idea for Boondoc, a social network for physicians, when he read of a U.S. doctor unable to extract a reciprocating saw blade from a patient’s hand.

The blade was good and stuck, but rather than give up and amputate the hand,

Cleantech integration company LightSail Canada will soon apply to the Atlantic Innovation Fund to help with financing for a $4.6 million pilot facility to store energy produced at a wind farm near New Glasgow, N.S. LightSail Canada is a

In calling for a new round of startups to enter the Launch36 accelerator program, PropelICT Executive Director Trevor MacAusland released a few interesting statistics .

The 10 startups – nine of them from New Brunswick – that graduated from the

Atlantic Innovation Week will be something of an old home week for the companies that went through Propel ICT’s Launch36 accelerator. It will also be a chance for them to learn how they’ve progressed since their term ended in June. In fact we’ll

Green with Energy, a company that came together at a Dalhousie University’s Startup Weekend last year, is moving from software into hardware with a new product that can help homeowners find where they’re wasting electricity.

Smartcell is a

When Andrew Burke presents Remembary at DemoCamp Halifax on Sept. 23, he’ll be displaying one item in what is becoming a portfolio of apps and, well, an online curiosity.

Burke heads Shindig Digital Constructions Inc. and Remembary, a digital

Some programmers want to come up with products that put the “active’’ into interactive TV. Michael-Andreas Kuttner prefers to let the viewer embrace his inner couch potato.

Having spent 15 years in TV production, Kuttner has now formed

When the co-founders of znanja Inc. appear at DemoCamp Halifax on Sept. 23, they’ll have something they didn’t have when they entered Innovacorp’s I-3 Competition last year – a product.

The co-founders of the New Glasgow, N.S., company - Tim

Picomole Instruments, a Moncton company developing a breath analysis device that detects cancer, yesterday announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and will patent the device.

Formerly called “LifeSens”,