Following big deal, Applied DNA gets defensive
By GREGORY ZELLER // Just a week after closing a $5 million stock deal with a single private investor, Applied DNA Sciences is enlisting big-time with the U.S. military. This…
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Three LI tech firms among Deloitte’s fastest, again
With one return engagement and a pair of debuts, Long Island has once again landed three up-and-coming firms on Deloitte’s annual ranking of North America’s 500 fastest-growing technology companies. The…
On ray beams, death stars and petaflops
By GREGORY ZELLER // A national research team led by Stony Brook University scientists is about to get a close-up look at neutron-star explosions, thermonuclear supernovae and other spectacularly volatile…
Live, from LI: It’s short-attention-span theater!
By GREGORY ZELLER // John Richardson knows startups. He launched two in his early teens, and therein learned a primary entrepreneurial lesson: business-development growing pains strike nearly all early-stagers, in…
In Southeast Asia, Brimes Energy feels the love
By GREGORY ZELLER // They love Brimes Energy in the Philippines. With the sovereign nation’s Energy Regulatory Commission promising R&D “incentives,” the circa-2014 Hauppauge-based startup is about to commence the…
Centricity event highlights Feinstein heart, tech
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Feinstein Institute flexed its investigative muscle Nov. 10, highlighting the awesome breadth of its clinical research programs in a day-long symposium at its Manhasset headquarters….
Schumer: Biz-development funds big deal for SBU
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York’s two U.S. Senators, including the freshly minted Senate minority leader, are heralding a series of competitive U.S. Department of Commerce grants that will fund…
‘NBTY Inc.’ is gone forever, though not really
Possibly sensing it had the cart before the horse, Ronkonkoma-based NBTY Inc. has announced an immediate corporate name change. The 45-year-old manufacturer and distributor of vitamins, nutritional supplements and beauty…
Patent secured, heartfelt app-maker stays tuned
By GREGORY ZELLER // An East Islip startup on the edge of financial ruin – and the brink of mobile-tech greatness – has taken a big step forward. Science Mobility…
At Chembio, looking beyond the numbers
By GREGORY ZELLER // While it made “important advances … intended to prepare the company for growth,” according to its CEO, Chembio Diagnostic Systems has suffered another subpar fiscal quarter….
Activists to ‘mobilize’ if Trump attacks environment
By GREGORY ZELLER // If you thought the campaign was a battle, just wait until the presidency – and that’s just on the environmental front. With the world coming to grips…
CEO: Despite turbulent 3Q, CPI Aero set to climb
A 19 percent drop in revenues and 29 percent dive in net income marked a third-quarter bottom-line stumble for CPI Aerostructures, though company officials – referencing a “front-loaded” 2014 contract…
Time-tripping to ice cream’s past, and a hot future
By GREGORY ZELLER // I scream, you scream … but only Richard Blech screens for ice cream. It’s taken Blech years of diligent Internet searches to assemble the yesteryear fleet…
Applied DNA Sciences closes $5 million stock deal
Applied DNA Sciences has closed a roughly $5 million deal with “a single healthcare-dedicated institutional investor,” the company announced late Monday. The Stony Brook-based supply-chain, anti-counterfeiting, anti-theft and product-authentication specialist…
Big plans in Minneapolis, but IPS still loves LI
By GREGORY ZELLER // With a three-year-old Seattle office growing steadily and a new shingle hanging in the middle of Minnesota’s red-hot digital-medicine ecosystem, Intelligent Product Solutions is in full-on…