A new event will connect IT and food specialists in Wolfville, N.S., in January in the hopes of fostering new ideas and partnerships.  F5/Food will be held at Wolfville’s Acadia University and will take the form of a 48-hour Idea Lab.

“The idea

Having launched its first payroll software product in June, Wagepoint is now gearing up to expand into the U.S. market.

It’s also moving to allow some clients to receive a portion of their paycheque in the online currency known as bitcoins.

B4Checkin, the Halifax-based producer of hotel reservation systems, has announced that the Cheeca Lodge & Spa has implemented its booking engine. The luxurious 214-room oceanfront resort in the Florida Keys went live with the new reservations

Affinio, the Halifax-based social media analytics company backed by Build Ventures, captured third place Tuesday at the Startup Showcase of the prestigious O’Reilly Strata Conference in New York.

The announcement, posted on the conference

Colibri Software, a Wolfville, N.S.-based rural development technology company, has announced a partnership with the Devour! Food Film Fest.

The company will soon launch the Devour! app powered by Strollopia, a mobile application that allows

A pair of St. John’s entrepreneurs has developed a new loyalty program app for smartphones that is gaining traction with retailers in their hometown and as far afield as Calgary.

Matthew Stenback and Adam Puddicombe have formed Brownie Points to

In a sign of how active the startup community in Atlantic Canada has become, November will feature not one, not two, but three Startup Weekends. And these are just a few of the events taking place in the coming month.

Jason Janes, a co-founder

BIKE Scientific Inc., a Halifax-based medical device company, may be weeks away from the sale of its new ProTrap XG, a disposable cartridge that simplifies the process of isolating proteins in blood samples.

The company aims to solve the problem

Every Tuesday, about 10,000 people in Charlottetown eagerly await an email from a company less than a year old that offers them a chance to claim more than 1,000 gifts from local merchants.

The company in question is GetGifted, and its simple

The surge in submissions to Innovacorp’s I-3 competition has been quite remarkable, especially in rural areas.

The innovation agency announced this week that it received 228 submissions for the 2013-2014 startup contest – an increase of more

Atlantic Angels held their first meeting yesterday, featuring pitches from four companies and a request for feedback in shaping the young group.

Permjot Valia, an investor and the Founder of MentorCamp, hosted the meeting at the Volta startup

In an effort to reduce the stigma attached to failure, the Pond-Deshpande Centre at the University of New Brunswick has launched the region’s first Failure Fund.

The idea is that entrepreneurs who give an idea their best shot and come up short