Traverse awarded much-awaited patent
A Stony Brook-based bioscience startup has landed a long-awaited U.S. patent, marking a major step toward commercializing several novel drug candidates. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Patent…
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Soteria Technologies to the rescue
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Greek goddess of safety may help you breathe a little easier in a crisis situation. At least, Soteria Technologies – a Lindenhurst firm named for…
Report: People’s United shakeup in Hauppauge
People’s United senior vice president Linda Rhoads and two associates have departed the bank following an audit that uncovered “internal fraud” at its Hauppauge branch, the Commercial Observer is reporting….
Women-focused pitch program at Hofstra
Hofstra’s Center for Entrepreneurship has been selected as the local host of the national InnovateHER Competition, a business plan pitch-off inviting entrepreneurs to showcase products and services with “a measurable…
The Debrief: John Suozzi is breaking with suburbia
Who is John Suozzi? That’s a tough one, even for John Suozzi. Self-described as “someone who’s still being made,” he’s a 2011 Drexel University graduate with a degree in entrepreneurship…
Chris and Ben’s exhaustive search for a better vacuum
By GREGORY ZELLER // Vacuuming with those canister-shaped wet/dry vacuum cleaners can lead to a real dust up. That, at least, is the problem encountered by East Setauket father/son inventing…
Drinking deep from the Internet of Things
By MITCH MAIMAN // The hottest buzz phrase these days is Internet of Things, or IoT. Broadly speaking, IoT is shorthand for smart, networked devices utilizing applications to communicate all…
Sam Altman is, no surprise, focused and intense
Sam Altman is the just-turned-30 president of Y Combinator, the world’s most prestigious accelerator and the booster behind $30 billion worth of startups, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Zenefits and Stripe. He…
DraftKings escalates its NY legal fight
DraftKings, the embattled Boston-based online fantasy sports startup, filed suit on Friday against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for attempting to “bully” the company into halting operations in the Empire…
Luis Gonzalez is InterConnecting the Americas
By GREGORY ZELLER // For Luis Gonzalez and his sales and marketing boosting InterConnecta, the future was on Long Island. And, it turns out, also in Peru. There were specific…
Eddie Cross wants to avoid fall cleanup
By GREGORY ZELLER // Eddie Cross got the drop on his first-ever invention 15 years ago, when he took a tumble inside a local bank branch, slipping on a wet…
For Digital Fly, winging it pays off
Digital Fly is apparently taking off. Since officially launching in September, the real-time social media monitoring and alert service – designed to safeguard school districts from threats big and small…
At Ms. Michelle’s, the chips are up
By GREGORY ZELLER // Michelle Gillette Kelly is living the American Dream. The gluten-free version, anyway. The baker and her products have gone through several permutations in recent years, from…
Reed Phillips is digging those good vibrations
By GREGORY ZELLER // Renewable energy is boundless and everywhere – the ocean, the cars zooming by on the highway, even the mom pushing a baby stroller through the park…
The Debrief: Robert Harrison’s 2,000X laptop
As a chemist and a mathematician, Robert Harrison appreciates the vital role computers play in all modern sciences. As director of Stony Brook University’s Institute for Advanced Computational Science and…