Cuomo: More tax cuts for small business
Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued to trot out his 2016 economic agenda on Tuesday, with a call to revamp the state tax code to benefit small businesses. The plan, announced in…
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The Debrief: Rosalie Drago is a force for innovation
Rosalie Drago’s career path meandered through tourism and economic development then into workforce issues and from the Jersey Shore to Long Island – to LaunchPad Huntington, precisely, where she set…
Cuomo unveils giant LI infrastructure package
Long Island builders and planners are understandably thrilled by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ambitious plan to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into Long Island’s infrastructure – though local leaders acknowledge…
Stony Brook-LIFT bid wins $5M state contract
By GREGORY ZELLER Stony Brook University and the Long Island Forum for Technology have been awarded a five-year funding deal to foster manufacturing in the region, with a focus on…
Foss sets Nomorobo mobile launch
By GREGORY ZELLER // Nomorobo mobile. Maybe not easy to say three times fast, but it’s happening: Inventor Aaron Foss has cracked the technology necessary for a mobile-phone version of…
Leveraging the still-potent power of LI’s past
By GREGORY ZELLER // The aerospace and defense industries might not be Long Island stalwarts anymore, but they’re thriving elsewhere – and one Island startup is helping others fly in…
Got a couple spare megawatts? Call PSEG
Long Island energy supplier PSEG has issued a Request for Proposals to help make good on a three-year-old promise. In an October 2012 resolution, the utility’s trustees set a power-supply…
LA aeronautics firm relocating to Westbury
Fifty-seven new jobs are landing in Nassau County, thanks to an aerospace subsidiary flying in from the West Coast. Novaria Group, the aerospace investment platform of Texas-based investors Rosewood Private…
Merry Christmas, small business people
By GREGORY ZELLER // Small businesses engaged in research and development are among those unwrapping a shiny present from the federal government, in the form of dozens of business-tax provisions…
DepYmed wins Accelerate funding
By Gregory Zeller // A Cold Spring Harbor biotech startup is the 10th and final recipient in the first co-funding round backed by Accelerate Long Island and the Long Island…
The Debrief: Getting Broad Hollow out of park
A Long Island lifer – he earned an undergraduate degree at C.W. Post and an MBA at Adelphi University before serving as president of the Lake Success-based subsidiary of Norwegian…
Biohub awards $900K in research funding
Thirteen grants totaling $900,000 have been awarded by the Long Island Bioscience Hub in its first-ever funding round. The hub – a National Institutes of Health-supported partnership between Stony Brook…
Hofstra revamps its student pitch program
The CPXi Challenge has returned to Hofstra University – slightly tweaked, in hopes of involving and inspiring a greater number of innovative thinkers. Hofstra graduate and trustee Mike Seiman, founder…
For SCCC startups, space is the final hurdle
By GREGORY ZELLER // Suffolk County Community College was approved for the Start-Up NY program this week, but it could be some time before there’s space for the state-run economic-development…
Harvest Bakery lands Suffolk IDA support
The Suffolk County IDA approved a benefits package to assist an expansion of Harvest Bakery, a manufacturer of home-style bakery products for local vendors and wholesale distribution, at 865 Waverly Ave. in Holtsville….