Sona Nanotech has announced a partnership with GE Healthcare Life Sciences to produce a rapid-response test for the Covid-19 coronavirus, which has sent Sona shares up into uncharted territory.

The two companies announced Tuesday that they will

Charlottetown-based iWave, which provides fundraising intelligence solutions, has won a bronze award in the Best Customer Satisfaction Strategy category in the 14th annual Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service.

IWave offers clients a

Shawn Smith, a Fredericton-based neurodiversity consultant, has been recruited by the University of Connecticut to participate in a $2 million, five-year initiative to increase the participation of neuro-diverse students in engineering. 

Smith is

The federal government on Monday announced $1.75 million in loans to four Halifax-area life sciences companies to help with their expansion.

The four companies are Motryx (which will receive $500,000), Nxtgen Care ($500,000), IR Scientific

The Scale-Up Hub: Cambridge project is accepting applications for its 2020 program, which helps scaling tech companies from the four Atlantic Provinces to grow in the Boston area.

Nova Scotia Business Inc. launched the program in 2018 as a vehicle

The Nova Scotia Health Authority will organize five startup pitch competitions this year, aimed at identifying new technologies to help address growing problems faced by the provincial medical system.

Announced Friday during an event at the Volta

Halifax-area marketing agency Revolve has bought the book of business of web development company Code + Mortar, formerly called Norex, for an undisclosed price.

The two parties announced the acquisition on Friday, as Revolve also unveiled the

Our Jobs of the Week column today features openings for a pair of positions in the marketing sphere -- Director of Marketing at Moncton-based SnapAp, and Performance Marketing Manager at Dash Hudson of Halifax.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing

Not only has Potential Motors pivoted to become a software company, but the Fredericton startup has brought two of New Brunswick’s most successful tech entrepreneurs on to its team.

Chris Newton and Marcel LeBrun have joined Potential Motors as

A new alliance of representatives for clean energy development was announced on Monday.

The Atlantic Clean Energy Alliance will work to foster energy innovation in the New Brunswick economy.

Representatives include the University of New

Having worked for decades in the technology industry in Israel, Alicia Ismach sees huge opportunities for Atlantic Canada’s tech sector in general and financial technology, or fintech, in particular.

The native of Argentina was hired as

Woodstock, NB-based Xplornet Communications Inc., which owns a hiybrid fiber wireless and satellite network, has reportedly agreed to be bought by a private equity investor for about US$2 billion (C$2.7 billion).

Citing people familiar with the