Albany awarded $175 million on Wednesday for five large-scale clean energy projects that are designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while decreasing the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. Sorry, none are on Long…
Advertising veterans Ron Greenstone and Chris Nehlen have teamed up on a new agency that plans to eschew long-term branding campaigns and in-it-for-life retainers in favor of fast, affordable, high-impact…
Buffalo’s First Niagara Financial Group Inc. is exploring a sale of the firm to suitors that include New York Community Bancorp, Toronto-Dominion Bank and Huntington Bancshares, according to DealReporter. According to the…
By GREGORY ZELLER // With customer satisfaction locked in the upright position and with a little lift from Start-Up NY, a B2B tech firm connecting charter-flight operators with flight brokers…
Farmingdale State College has been awarded $2.9 million in federal funding to increase mentoring research programs for at-risk students at at its local caampus and schools in three other states. Farmingdale is…
A major upgrade to Teq’s online professional-development platform will put teachers face-to-face with tech experts via video conferencing, according to the Huntington Station education-technology producer. The firm’s new “Instructional Support…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two major deals in the online publishing space offer the potential of a dramatically altered digital landscape for Long Island shoppers and sellers. In the most…
Few people can legitimately claim to be innovating innovation itself. But when Kevin Craig agreed to lead Hofstra University’s new Center for Innovation, he insisted that private companies working with…
By GREGORY ZELLER // A few things inventor Celestina Pugliese has learned since she launched her company in 2010: There’s always something to worry about Being a registered woman-owned business…
By JAMES BERNSTEIN // Back in 1995, Mark H. Willes, chairman and chief executive of Times Mirror Co., then the owner of Newsday, flew in from L.A. to visit the…
Using ceramic nanomaterials to produce energy is a million-dollar idea, according to the National Science Foundation. Well, a $935,056 idea, anyway. That’s the size of the NSF grant just awarded…
Cablevision has agreed to be acquired by Netherlands-based telecom company Altice in a deal valued at $17.7 billion, or about $35 per share. The deal, which must be approved by…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island still has a ways to go before it rivals Silicon Valley or Boston’s Route 128 as an investment hotbed. But the science is here,…
Thirty new Long Island jobs are on tap via three new Start-Up NY companies announced Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. All told, Cuomo announced 15 new businesses that plan to…
Two Empire State Development awards totaling $20 million will propel Stony Brook University into the future of biotech and energy efficiency. The first award, totaling $10 million over 10 years,…