Long Island REDC rebounds with ‘Top’ $84.3M haul
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Long Island Regional Economic Development Council is back on top, once again ranked as a “Top Performer” in Albany’s annual REDC sweepstakes with a hefty…
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Old St. Trick: Naughty Nomorobo traps telemarketers
By GREGORY ZELLER // ’Twas the month before Christmas, and all through the land, robocalls haunted every woman and man – until Santa stepped in, and exacted a little robo-revenge….
CSHL conference lands a bull’s eye on Lyme detection
By GREGORY ZELLER // A gaggle of academic, public health and commercial-healthcare specialists gathered under Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s mighty banner have published findings that could rewrite the book on…
Northwell, Cigna work it out, call off divorce
It turns out reports of Northwell Health’s split with the Cigna Health and Life Insurance Co. have been somewhat exaggerated. That very nearly wasn’t so: The health system’s hospitals, physicians,…
Clots (or not) to be thankful for in HeartMate advance
By GREGORY ZELLER // A cutting-edge Manhasset hospital is the first in the region to offer new hope to patients with advanced heart failure, in the form of a revolutionary…
Icon, journalist, husband, father, friend
A cornerstone of Long Island journalism for the past two decades, Innovate Long Island founder and Publisher John Kominicki passed away early Tuesday after a brief illness. He was 62….
Applied DNA is talking Turkey (and West Africa, too)
By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences is in one of those modes again: another week, another big leap into a potentially lucrative geographic or vertical market. This week, it’s…
Northwell sings the praises of $15 million CHIOR
Heralding “an incubator for innovation,” Michael Dowling and the Northwell Health system have opened the doors of the Center for Health Innovations and Outcomes Research. Dowling, president and CEO of…
The case of the $2M (and counting) stay-home dad
By GREGORY ZELLER // Philip Smith follows plenty of leads. It makes sense the Port Jefferson native and lifelong Suffolk County resident would land in the lead-generation business. Smith is…
With first national campaign, an even bigger Mission
By GREGORY ZELLER // Sprinting out of the Walk Before You Can Run File comes Dean DeCarlo, who’s landed a first-ever national account for his upstart digital-marketing firm Mission Disrupt…
As biopharma blossoms, ace DNA producer locks in
By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences has long proclaimed textiles – your cotton shirt, your leather shoes and the industries that produce them – as its primary vertical market,…
In $2 million startup, 11,000 wines and one full circle
By GREGORY ZELLER // As the latest cog in a multistate corporate wheel likely to spin past $3 billion in revenue next year, Total Wine Spirits & More is not…
Comtech inks $96.2M in new emergency-call contracts
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island-based communications cornerstone will manage a 911 emergency network and wireless 911 services affecting millions of U.S. customers, according to a series of new…
Northwell’s ‘Health Story’ dives into Maria’s devastation
Northwell Health’s latest “Health Story” takes listeners into the heart of the storm, both literally and figuratively. The newest episode of the New Hyde Park-based health system’s monthly podcast follows…
Island gets the lead out, with Albany’s help
By GREGORY ZELLER // Four Long Island projects are included in a $20 million state funding package for municipal projects replacing residential water-service lines made from lead. Twenty-six individual projects…