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Sardone to keynote Suffolk entrepreneur meetup

Patent Attorney Francesco Sardone of Carter, DeLuca, Farrell & Schmidt will headline the next meeting of the Suffolk County Inventors and Entrepreneurs Club. Sardone has a mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology…


GAO confirms bomber deal for Northrop Grumman

The General Accounting Office has sealed the deal: Northrop Grumman will build the nation’s next long-range bomber. Boeing and Lockheed Martin, which lost the initial bid last year and appealed,…


Many hands on deck for ThermoLift 2.0

By GREGORY ZELLER // As you might imagine, ThermoLift’s natural gas-driven heat pump and air conditioning unit, a directed-energy device based on Vuilleumier Cycle thermodynamics, has many parts. Much like the…


CareConnect posts surge in enrollment

A surge in small-group enrollment has helped New York State’s first provider-owned commercial health plan triple its membership. CareConnect, the insurance arm of Northwell Health, announced Tuesday that it recorded…


Funding in hand, Soteria heads to production

By GREGORY ZELLER // Don’t hold your breath, but the world’s first “personal escape respirator” should arrive by spring. Lindenhurst-based Soteria Technologies has secured $200,000 in angel investments and will…


Canon inks deal for BlackBerry charger tech

Canon has reached a deal to license BlackBerry’s patented power-charging technology, which works with mobile devices and a range of consumer electronics. IGT, a Nevada-based gaming- and lottery-system IT specialist…


A dodgy year for sales tax collections

Sales tax collections are considered a go-to economic indicator, giving business and government leaders a quick look at local consumer spending and confidence. But the numbers don’t always tell the…


LISTnet to premier tech showcase program

LISTnet wants to make sure nobody gets lost in the shuffle. With Long Island wading deeper into an innovation economy, new tech and biotech enterprises form with regularity. But not…


ExcelAire’s new arrival

ExcelAire’s skies just got a little friendlier. The Hawthorne Global Services subsidiary has added another Embraer Legacy 600 private jet to its fleet. The premium plane, which is privately owned…



Diversification nips Applied DNA numbers

It wasn’t a record quarter, but Applied DNA Sciences maintained momentum and stayed true to its ongoing diversification strategy in the first quarter of Fiscal 2016. That according to James…