National stage for SBU’s computer-science center
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University’s cutting-edge Institute for Advanced Computational Science will play a key role in a national effort to give Big Data power to thousands of new…
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A fresh idea that’s doing well (and doing good)
By GREGORY ZELLER // Ten-thousand donated meals, three boroughs and two ousted competitors later, OurHarvest is still talking fresh. Seems it’s always growing season at the 2014 Hicksville startup, which…
New quarter, familiar fortunes for Henry Schein
It was another solid spring for Henry Schein Inc., which reported its second-quarter financials to investors Thursday. Setting the tone in the quarter ended June 25 were year-over-year gains in…
Women take the lead in entrepreneurial activity
U.S. startup activity jumped 15 percent over the past two years, led by growth among women, millennials and minorities, according to a just-out report from the Kauffman Foundation, which has been…
Another strong quarter for Planet Payment
Slight year-over-year declines in net income and earnings dulled Planet Payment’s second-quarter financials, but reported revenues were strong – and the comfortably profitable company remains on-course for significant growth, according…
Gov introduces $16M ‘Clean Communities’ fund
A new state initiative will pour millions into local governments looking to reduce energy consumption and promote community-based clean-energy projects. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced the launch of Clean…
Sloan Kettering facility green-lighted
The Hempstead Town board approved a site plan for Memorial Sloan Kettering’s proposed $140 million outpatient treatment and research facility at Mitchel Field as part of the so-called Nassau Hub…
Best Market, Albany cooking up LI ‘food hub’
Regional grocery chain Best Market will take over about one-third of the former Entenmann’s facility in Bay Shore, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday, the first step in the establishment of…
Some pig: USDA, Codagenix target swine flu
By GREGORY ZELLER // With Zika virus, Foot and Mouth Disease and other global threats already in its crosshairs, Farmingdale biotech Codagenix Inc. is challenging another high-profile opponent: swine flu….
Restructuring plan dents Veeco’s second quarter
Thin-film equipment manufacturer Veeco Instruments took it on the fiscal chin in the second quarter, but the rough stretch is all part of the plan, according to Chairman and CEO…
BNL snags key role in $50M battery effort
By GREGORY ZELLER // A host of advanced Brookhaven National Laboratory technologies will bolster a $50 million national campaign to create next-generation electric-vehicle batteries. The laboratory’s National Synchrotron Light Source II…
Record grant for Suffolk Community College
That’s one for the books at Suffolk County Community College, where a U.S. Department of Labor job-training grant has set a new funding high-water mark. It’s actually 2,949,237 for the…
India’s pharma king earns Suffolk IDA nod
Suffolk County has burnished its reputation as a choice commercial destination for early-stage pharmaceuticals. The Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency on Thursday approved a corporate incentives package for Evaric Pharmaceutical,…
More LI funding through $2B Smart Schools effort
Three more Long Island school districts will receive funding for technology upgrades through Albany’s Smart Schools program. A total of roughly $2 million will be funneled to the East Moriches,…
Cleary out as BNL commercialization manager
By GREGORY ZELLER // Connie Cleary is no longer Brookhaven National Laboratory’s commercialization director. Although some BNL webpages showed her as an active laboratory employee and Cleary’s own LinkedIn account…