NASA taps NYIT for critical rocket-propulsion sensors
By GREGORY ZELLER // A New York Institute of Technology engineering professor is contributing to the creation of specialized sensors that could help test the next generation of space propulsion…
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Island unemployment rate inches higher
Long Island’s unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2 percent in June, rising 0.2 percentage points from a year ago as additional workers began looking for jobs. About 63,000 Long Islanders…
For startups seeking capital, the name is no game
By GREGORY ZELLER // What’s in a name? Maybe everything, if you’re a startup in need of early-stage capital. A new study by researchers from Stony Brook University, Drexel University…
CBRE: Tech talent, Millennials rising on LI
Long Island’s pool of potential technology workers grew by almost 25 percent in the last five years, according to the annual Scoring Tech Talent Report just out from real estate…
Israeli innovators extend Northwell’s global reach
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Northwell Health system is going international, again, with its latest collaborative effort. Following recent alliances with multiple domestic partners and several spanning the globe –…
Nature’s Bounty sells $3 billion share to KKR
Investment giant KKR & Co., which owns stakes in everything from GoDaddy to Hicksville’s Broadway Mall, is buying a majority share of The Nature’s Bounty Company Inc., the Ronkonkoma-based vitamin and…
With Watson’s help, Adelphi hackers wow IBM judges
A team of crack Adelphi University computer-science students took second place, and a step toward a potential commercial venture, at a recent New York City hackathon. Students Sarthak Arora, Prasanth…
Fomer FBI agent heads experienced RMF cyber group
By GREGORY ZELLER // A former FBI special agent will help lead Ruskin Moscou Faltischek’s beefed-up cybersecurity group. A “major expansion” of the Uniondale law firm’s Cybersecurity and Data Privacy…
At Fred Dunwoody’s, when you’re write, you’re right
By GREGORY ZELLER // The writing is on the wall at FJD & Associates, and it looks like founder Fred Dunwoody was right all along. Dunwoody, who leveraged a long-term…
Employment up 1.7% as the hospitality sector rocks
Long Island added 19,000 jobs in the year ending in June, a 1.7 percent increase that brings the region’s total private sector employment to 1,172,200, the Labor Department reported Thursday….
Throwing in more towels, and that’s very good
By GREGORY ZELLER // Another week, another significant partnership for Applied DNA Sciences, which continues to make itself at home in the national textiles market. The Stony Brook-based provider of…
Feds OK $537M loan for NYC’s Farley train project
New York has been greenlighted for more than $500 million in federal loans to covert the Farley Post Office building in Manhattan into a modern transit hub, replacing the rabbit…
Award-winning Re-Nuble lays waste to malnutrition
By GREGORY ZELLER // An outer-borough biotech with a Long Island lineage is racing to the head of the organic-fertilizer field. Re-Nuble Inc., founded by scientifically oriented business IT specialist Tinia…
PET project brings Applied DNA to India, and the world
By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences wants to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? Plastics. After checking cotton, leather, European luxury cars, Department of…
Crikey! Northwell, Aussie counterparts come together
Some of Northwell Health’s best practices are heading down under. A unique exchange program between the New Hyde Park-based health system and Australia’s Epworth HealthCare system has brought a team of…