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Island suffered late summer job losses

Long Island’s private sector lost 9,800 jobs between August and September, more than twice the historical rate, the Labor Department reported. Professional and business services, which lost 2,900 jobs in September,…


Moiety arrives on iOS; Android coming soon

Moiety has arrived. The scheduling app by Woodbury-based Aeonic Ventures LLC, useful for any social group but designed to be specifically helpful to separated co-parents and their “crews,” officially debuted…




At Cohen, $10M and much-less-scary MRIs

A $10 million pledge from one of its top contributors will bring a unique, child-friendly MRI system to the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center. The New Hyde Park…


International intrigue at Medford’s Chembio

By GREGORY ZELLER // With declining Latin American sales contributing to a revenues losing streak, Chembio Diagnostics has shaken up its international rotation. The Medford-based biotech, which manufactures rapid point-of-care…



Applied DNA Sciences lands energy vet Catell

A major-league energy veteran with global pop will help guide Applied DNA Sciences’ approach to power-grid protection. The Stony Brook-based supply-chain, anti-counterfeiting, anti-theft and product-authentication specialist has appointed Robert Catell…


Wheeling, dealing toward LI’s energy future

By GREGORY ZELLER // A Selden-based supply-chain specialist and Eastern Suffolk BOCES are plowing innovative pathways toward good jobs in burgeoning alternative-energy fields. Dynamic Supplier Alignment is teaming with the…


CEBIP sees a possible future in NYSERDA fund

By GREGORY ZELLER // A fresh $10 million investment will support early-stage clean-energy companies plugged into New York’s disparate business-incubator ecosystem – and one Long Island business program is especially…



IPS-designed smart safe enters the war on drugs

By GREGORY ZELLER // Perpetual monitoring of your prescription medications is now an app away. A Westchester distributor has taken to Indiegogo with humanity’s “first Internet of Things-integrated personal safe,”…


DOE taps SBU guru, for a billion-billion reasons

By GREGORY ZELLER // An ambitious nationwide computational-chemistry effort – which could enhance critical biomass-based energy production, among other next-level sciences – will be led by one of Stony Brook…


SBU marks a Duchenne muscular dystrophy first

A grassroots foundation has helped Stony Brook Children’s Hospital open Greater New York’s first center dedicated to Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Duchenne syndrome, or Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is a common and…


The little vending machine that could

By GREGORY ZELLER // A “Shark Tank” success story that’s rewriting point-of-purchase logistics is coming home to Long Island. Brainstormed and birthed in Bethpage, Vengo – a wall-hugging dispenser packed…