Lift Stick wins $50K in Hofstra biz plan contest
Hofstra students Nick Calderon and Kevin McCroary won the $50,000 top prize in the annual CPXi VentureTech student business plan contest on Wednesday for The Lift Stick, a device that…
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ESPN seeks legal halt to Verizon packaging
As threatened, ESPN has filed suit in New York’s Supreme Court over Verizon’s decision to include the sports network in its new discounted pay-TV package. The legal fight could slow…
New distribution deal in hand, Teq looks to bulk up
BY GREGORY ZELLER // Teq, the Huntington-based educational software firm, is about to go on a hiring spree after announcing a new international distribution deal. A producer of innovative classroom…
DEBRIEF: Paul Lipsky, MindYolk/LIVP
It takes a village. That basically defines Paul Lipsky’s hankering to unite Long Island’s creative-tech community. A digital animator with 25 years of professional experience, Lipsky is the CEO of…
State’s job board sets record on tech employment
Tech-based jobs rule the roost on New York State’s Jobs Express website, an online resource looking to connect the unemployed with companies in search of fresh blood. According to the…
Bumping up against the boundaries of free speech
BY GREGORY ZELLER Sometimes, there’s a thin line between criminality and the $300 million startup. Make that razor-thin in the case of the anonymous messaging service Yik Yak, and according…
DEBRIEF: Andrew Hazen, Angel Dough Ventures
Most known recently as a founder of the fast-growing Launchpad Long Island co-working facilities, serial investor Andrew Hazen is not afraid to take a chance. But whether the CEO of…
CharityWait lands Angel Network funding
BY GREGORY ZELLER // From the Two Birds/One Stone file comes CharityWait, a born-in-Nassau-County app that’s received a hefty six-figure investment from Angel Dough Ventures and the Long Island Angel Network….
Army exercises Comtech contract extension
The U.S. Army re-upped for another year of services from Melville’s Comtech Telecommunications Corp., exercising almost $20 million in contracts covering engineering and satellite communications and use of hush-hush Comtech…