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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BUT VOTING WAS FUN: House Republicans have taken another crack at repealing the tax on medical devices contained in the Affordable Care Act. The House voted 280-140 Thursday to remove the…
STILL BREWING: Another Long Islander has taken to Kickstarter to fund his brew-related startup. Paul V, aka the Hopster, is hoping to raise $5K to launch a mascot character that would…
THE 1099 ECONOMY: Consider that Uber has 160,000 contract drivers and fewer than 2,000 employees. Though no one tops that 80 to 1 ratio, firms like Handy, Eaze and Luxe aren’t…
NY CALLING: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, still busily looking into Apple’s new streaming music program, found time to send letters to eBay and Paypal asking the firms to explain…
JOB INSECURITY: Port Authority exec Pat Foye has told senior staffers he intends to compete for the new CEO job at the agency, which is being reorganized following the Bridgegate scandal….
BUT THE RANGERS ARE SOLID: Cablevision CEO James Dolan has called for consolidation of the local cable markets, but it increasingly looks like his firm won’t be part of it. Analysts…
RAGE OF THE MACHINE: There is no shortage of angst about the relentless advance of digital technology and what it means for the workforce, if not humanity. But new research…
START-UP NY DOES MORE STARTING UP: Start-Up NY announced the addition of 11 companies on Tuesday, none on Long Island. Unless you count Brooklyn. Which maybe we should. The firms have…