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A+ Technology: New England is hot, but LI is home

By GREGORY ZELLER // The recent opening of A+ Technology and Security Solutions’ Connecticut satellite office doesn’t signal the pending defection of one of Long Island’s brighter tech stars. Instead,…


Moiety scores KiwiTech collaboration

By GREGORY ZELLER // A mobile scheduling app targeting divorced co-parents just got hitched. Woodbury-based Moiety Inc., a subsidiary of Aeonic Corp. and creator of The Moiety App, has announced…


Zuznow is now making up for lost time

By GREGORY ZELLER // A visa snafu might have slowed the works a bit, but Israeli import Zuznow has taken it all in stride. The Tel Aviv-based startup is finally…


Updating you on: Graphometric startup Web4Sign

By GREGORY ZELLER // There are good signs at Web4Sign, where everything is proceeding as planned. The graphometrically inclined Italian import has completed its move into Stony Brook University’s Center…


Geek Squad will roll in the Prius C

The Geek Squad is getting a little less geeky. Best Buy’s technical support unit will begin replacing its signature Volkswagen Beetles with Toyota’s Prius C hybrids, the company announced, each…


Famularo to head ERwin, move HQ to LI

Tampa-based software firm ERwin Inc. plans to move its executive offices to Long Island. Makes sense: Newly minted CEO Adam Famularo lives in Garden City. Famularo, a former CA executive…


Extended beta complete, meet Bettr for iOS

By GREGORY ZELLER // Bettr late than never. Originally scheduled to go live in December, Bettr – the social media-management app invented by Hofstra University chums James Knaus and Ashish…


Back story: How FLI Charge took flight

By GREGORY ZELLER // Mission impossible: a six-week window to prepare a functional but unattractive wireless charging-pad prototype for the glaring spotlight of the nation’s largest consumer-electronics showcase. Impossible, at…


For Landscaper Outlet, the green is all online

By GREGORY ZELLER // How old school is East Norwich-based Martin Viette Nurseries? Consider: Russ Ireland is the third Russ Ireland to run the family business. Ireland – actually Russ…



A demand for Nomorobo-styled call blocking

By GREGORY ZELLER // U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer’s call for telecommunications carriers to make robocall-blocking technologies available free to landline and cellphone customers could be trajectory-changing news for Nomorobo, the…



Wheels up for Stony Brook’s FlightPartner

By GREGORY ZELLER // Now boarding: FlightPartner. Just 13 months since incorporating, FlightPartner Technologies Inc., is ready to launch its namesake B2B subscription service, designed to connect travel brokers to…


Verint buys Virginia ‘customer care’ firm

Verint Systems Inc. has acquired a Virginia-based cloud- and mobile-solutions firm, moving the Melville software company a step closer to global actionable-intelligence supremacy. The undisclosed deal for Contact Solutions, a…


MindYolk’s incredible Brazilian dry dock project

By GREGORY ZELLER // A third-party networking connection has taken MindYolk Animation Studios to Brazil – and brought an ambitious ship-repair consortium’s $530 million dream dock to life. At least,…