A BOLD NEW START: Jeff Leventhal, co-founder and former CEO of Huntington-based staffing juggernaut Work Market, is joining Boldstart Ventures as an investment partner and has chipped in some of…
SLOW NEWS DAY: Gov. Cuomo announced the completion of a $3.8M upgrade of the Holiday Inn in downtown Niagara Falls, funded with $1.1M of state and city eco-dev money. Want…
DEBRIS, THE FINAL FRONTIER: This just in from Orbital Debris Quarterly News: The International Space Station performed two recent “debris avoidance maneuvers,” changing orbit to duck a chunk of decaying…
MURCOTT MOVE: John Murcott, longtime major domo at Mark Fasciano’s ThoughtBox operation and a top player at several related portfolio companies, has landed at Work Market as an exec in what…
THEY KNOW ZIP: We’re not totally defined by where we live, but a California firm called Esri gets pretty close. Type in your zip code and Esri’s Tapestry software compiles 67…
THE BIG PUSH: Stony Brook University Medical Center is prepping to deliver its 100,000th baby in the next week or two. Stay tuned. SMART TECH: Calverton-based buncee was voted app of the…
STATE OF THE ARTZT: CA Technologies cofounder Russ Artzt has announced plans to retire. Not to us, of course, but that’s the word leaking out of Islandia. BIG PAYDAY: Converting Uber’s 45,000…
AUSTERITY? THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT: Greek developers have launched an app to help people find out which nearby ATM has cash in it. WE NEEDED A STUDY FOR THIS? New research suggests…
THIS’LL MAKE YOUR HEAD HURT: Michael Schatz, a quantitative biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, has been helping gauge who out there is producing the most electronic bytes per year. Turns…
INNOVATION GOES HIRE: Tech employment in NYC jumped by more than 40K, to about 115K, since 2007, a 57 percent increase and six times the pace of other job growth in…
GONNA FLY NOW: PowerToFly, a NYC startup that matches companies with work-from-home moms, raised $6.5M this week, with the money going for a big expansion of the engineering staff. And, yes, all of…
IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME: Two driverless prototype cars had a near miss on a Silicon Valley street last week when a Google-operated Lexus RX400 cut off an Audi…
HARNESS THE STARS? PSEG Long Island is looking to power the Hamptons with a series of small energy points capable of operating with the grid or independently, Capital NY’s David Giambusso…
OPTIMUM SPEED: Cablevision increased the max downstream speed of its basic Optimum Online Internet service to 25 Mbps, from 15, putting it line with the FCC’s new definition of broadband….
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