By GREGORY ZELLER // Empire State Development has welcomed a third LaunchPad Huntington-sponsored startup into its Innovation Hot Spot program. The state’s economic-development driver has opened the books for Smithtown-based…
An impressive rise in adjusted earnings per share highlighted 2015 fourth-quarter and year-end financials released Wednesday by Henry Schein Inc. For 4Q 2015, which ended Dec. 31, the global healthcare-products…
Verizon Communications has reportedly tapped Tim Armstrong, chief executive of its AOL unit, to head a possible bid for Yahoo’s assets. Verizon has expressed interest in the troubled firm for…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Add the Fair Media Council to the list of organizations opposing the proposed sale of Cablevision to Altice. Citing “grave concern for the public interest, public…
Doon Gibbs has seen the light, and it comes from the National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s new $912 million electron storage ring. Designed to produce X-rays more…
More than 318 million pounds of electronic waste was diverted from landfills in the first three years of New York’s electronics recycling law, state officials announced, but junked televisions and computer monitors are…
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s not the first time entrepreneur Don Marchon has pivoted, but for surgeons and surgical patients around the world, this one might be the most important….
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s your typical career trajectory. Start in the hospitality industry, busing tables and supporting kitchens and tending bar and whatever, at age 13. Skyrocket through the…
Northwell Health is going to the Super Bowl. The former North Shore-LIJ Health System will shine a big spotlight on its new “Look North” advertising campaign with a series of…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Entrepreneur James O’Sullivan has reached a critical point familiar to many innovators, particularly those offering digital services: How to monetize your beta-test hit? In O’Sullivan’s case,…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Siemen’s AG has agreed to buy Melville software firm CD-adapco for $970 million. And, no, the deal is not related to the death of the LI…
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has nominated former El Diario publisher Rossana Rosado to replace the retiring Cesar Perales as Secretary of State. Rosado has been in and out of government since 1992, when…
A Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory spinoff with less than a year under its belt has sped past $1 million in licensing revenue on the lab’s patented “short hairpin RNA” technology….
Sesame Workshop and the Collaborative Fund are launching a $10 million fund to invest in startups focused on technology that advances children’s education, health, nutrition and development. Sesame Workshop is…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Even under the “most optimistic scenario,” Long Island will remain woefully short of rental housing over the next two decades, fueling a mounting loss of young…