For FlightPartner, business is always looking up
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…
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Farmingdale lands $2.9M grant for at-risk students
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…
Teq beefs up its teacher dev platform
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…
Two deals, one very interesting digital future
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…
The Debrief: Kevin Craig, Hofstra’s innovation man
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…
Shedding a little light on bothersome servers
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…
In Cablevision deal, some Newsday staffers fear the worst — more change
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…
Energy from floating ceramic nanomats? Yessir
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 to be acquired by Dutch telecom
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…
Bringing some heat to local investing
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,…
3 digital firms added to Start-Up NY program
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…
SBU lands $20M for energy, biotech centers
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,…
Tech plays center stage in latest funding contest
With visions of a thriving innovation economy front and center, Long Island business and academic leaders are shooting for $105 million in commercialization funds through the annual Regional Economic Development Council…
Farm preservation, defense, marketing programs land state funding
Peconic Land Trust, a not for profit dedicated to conserving Long Island’s working farms and undeveloped land was awarded $1 million in state money to kick off an agricultural equipment…
Applied DNA acquires W. Virginia firm
Applied DNA Sciences, which uses DNA to authenticate a growing array of products and materials that range from currency to wine, has acquired the assets of West Virginia-based Vandalia Research for $1.5…