On Kickstarter, beers and boards win big
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Kickstarter crowdfunding platform is a worthy metaphor for humanity itself. Invented by necessity and forever evolving, it’s a vast engine of ingenuity fueled by the…
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CA names Otto Berkes as chief tech officer
A week after folding in agile developer Rally Software, CA Technologies has hired a familiar name to help run it all. Otto Berkes, a veteran technology executive at HBO and…
Codagenix gets $100K USDA grant for Foot and Mouth vaccine
By GREGORY ZELLER // Codagenix, the Stony Brook biotech startup, has been awarded a $100,000 federal grant to develop a vaccine for the infectious Foot and Mouth Disease Virus. Funding…
Hofstra lands $2M for engineering, robotics and big data programs
Hofstra University was awarded $2 million in state grants on Monday to expand its School of Engineering and Applied Science and create new laboratories and classrooms focusing on big data…
The Debrief: Mark Lesko, Accelerate Long Island
Three-year-old Accelerate Long Island has been quietly investing in biotech and clean-gen startups, building an MIT-styled mentoring program and pulling together the stray ends of the entrepreneurial ecosystem via dinners,…
Office Depot CIO joins Cablevision
Technology veteran Keith Sherwell has been named chief information officer at Cablevision, leaving a similar job at Office Depot after nine months. The Cablevision post is a new position that…
eGifter closes $3.5M angel investment, adds Italy deal
eGifter, the Huntington-based digital gifting platform, has closed on a $3.5 million investment round and announced a partnership that will expand the brand in Europe. The funding comes from the Long…
New refrigerant rules = hot times for Priority Cool
By GREGORY ZELLER // With new refrigeration standards sweeping the globe, a Bay Shore company with proprietary rights to an advanced coolant formula is poised to cash in on a…
The Brew Bus: Ready to barrel on down the highway
By GREGORY ZELLER // Brad Darrohn likes beer. Specifically, the partner at Bohemia-based online marketing firm Fishbat enjoys craft beers, those brewed in small batches by local beer lovers like…
Fashioning a presidential run
With the cost of a successful presidential campaign now pegged above $1 billion, no surprise Hillary Clinton is selling campaign geegaws that were once standard giveaways. Supporters are being asked…
CA buying Colorado software firm in $480M deal
CA Technologies has agreed to acquire Rally Software Development Corp., a Boulder-based software and services firm, for $19.50 per share, or roughly $480 million. Shares of Rally jumped 45 percent…
Feinstein eyes $400M center for bioelectronic med
By GREGORY ZELLER // Hundreds of millions of dollars, 250,000 square feet, dozens of laboratories and one throbbing center at the heart of a reinvigorated Long Island economy. Yep. Kevin…
Start-Up NY gets passing (barely) grade from Siena
Start-Up NY won narrow support from voters in a Siena College poll released Tuesday, with 52 percent of respondents saying they favor the program, which gives tax breaks to companies…
At BNL, big ideas come from thinking really small
By GREGORY ZELLER // And you thought only children built with blocks. Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists do, too – only their blocks are about one-billionth of a meter long and…
The art of workforce development
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island’s LaunchPad ecosystem, one of several fronts in the war against the Island’s “brain drain,” is facing a recruiting crisis. Many businesses within the LaunchPad…