Teaching to the truth: Nowadays, we’re all in sales
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s a big world getting smaller – one of several critical lessons in the modern marketing classroom. As social media and other online avenues regularly smudge…
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LI Water Conference sets Oct. 22 colloquium
Joan Leary Matthews, head of clean water efforts for the EPA’s New York and New Jersey region, will headline the annual Long Island Water Conference symposium, set for Oct. 22…
Summertime, and the innovation was easy
By GREGORY ZELLER // If you’re looking for economic indicators from within the innovation space, consider the sizzling summer just wrapped by Intelligent Product Solutions, the Hauppauge-based product design and…
Albany funding affordable housing in storm areas
With Hurricane Joaquin positioning itself for a potential East Cost strike, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced a new $20 million program to support eligible affordable-housing projects in areas ravaged…
Enjoying the not-too-sweet taste of success
By GREGORY ZELLER // Given that he’s American and draws a breath, it’s no surprise Kyle Chandler likes beer. And given that he’s a Long Islander during the Island’s craft-beverage…
Monday Debrief: Bruce Stillman. The Man.
There’s barely enough room on the Internet to list Bruce Stillman’s educational credentials and professional accomplishments – his list of awards and honors runs the length of your typical DNA…
Apps surpass TV as America’s favorite pastime
By DAN BOWEN // The intersection of connectivity, app functionality and mobility have given rise to a new phenomenon. Call it interactive, call it enhanced or social. Whatever you name…
SilvermanAcampora launches compliance group
By GREGORY ZELLER // By popular demand, business law firm SilvermanAcampora has launched a new practice group to help clients navigate the choppy waters of government compliance. The Jericho firm’s…
Answering our ‘pent-up need’ for new industry
By JOHN L. KOMINICKI // A proposed $300 million center on bioelectronic research would get a $50 million jolt if Albany follows recommendations made this week by a group of business…
ClipFix aces field test, cranks up manufacturing
By GREGORY ZELLER // Commack startup ClipFix, which peddles an easy DIY solution for busted modular plugs, has aced the first of two planned field tests – and that’s good…
Xerox CEO headlines women, minority biz forum
New York’s largest annual networking event for minority- and women-owned business enterprises is scheduled for Oct. 1 and 2 at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany. Designed to…
Bees find a way to lick climate change
By JOHN L. KOMINICKI // Nicole Miller-Struttman, a researcher and professor at SUNY Old Westbury, has been creating a bit of a buzz lately with a study suggesting that the…
Lesko tapped to head Hofstra entrepreneur center
By GREGORY ZELLER // Accelerate Long Island director Mark Lesko has been named executive dean of Hofstra University’s new Center for Entrepreneurship, a multi-disciplinary program that plans to leverage entrepreneurial activities…
The Debrief: Michael Dowling, CEO of what might have been Laudica Health
In healthcare administration, Michael Dowling has done it all. A 20-year veteran of the former North Shore-LIJ Health System, now Northwell Health, he’s been New York’s health and human services…
SavvyRoo: Bringing data into the media mainstream
By GREGORY ZELLER // In a world in which the social media have largely supplanted actual socializing, it’s strangely fitting that SavvyRoo cofounders Noah Blumenthal and Stephen Ostermiller have barely met….