ADIEU FIRST DATA: Credit card processor First Data Corp. plans to shutter its Melville operation and move hundreds of workers to “a large new office east of Manhattan.” Innovate LI can…
LOOKING TO THE SUBURBS: There’s an inconvenient truth tucked into the environmental sustainability plan for New York that Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled last month: The city needs the suburbs to…
OUTSOURCED: Ronkonkoma-based supplement maker NBTY will shut down its Amityville plant and outsource production to a California firm, eliminating 214 local jobs, Newsday’s Aisha Al-Muslim reports. The Amityville site had received…
TGIW: A good midweek everyone and welcome new readers. It’s May 6, the day the Hindenburg crashed, the first Republic P-47 took wing and “Friends” said cheers. Don’t forget to send…
PATENTLY NOT NEW: About 40 percent of all new patents are combinations of old ideas, and that’s pretty much always been true, according to a new look at the USPTO’s files….
THE SIRENS’ CALL: Top state officials may now use police lights and sirens on their personal cars, according to a just-adopted emergency regulation. The rule speeds things up for the commissioners…
ARRESTING PERFORMANCE: Scientists analyzed five years of NFL draft data and discovered that the performance of players who had an arrest record but no charges was better than those without an…
ADAMS’ ALBANY ADIEU: Ken Adams, the former Empire State Development chief who was shuffled over to the finance department in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s post-election inner-sanctum makeover, will leave government service in…
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TOP O’ THE WEEK Good Monday, innovators, and welcome all new readers of this roundup. There’s a lot of you. It’s April 20, on which date Miro was born, the…
Welcome to the weekly roundup for April 17. It’s National Bat Appreciation Day, and they deserve it: Nature’s only winged mammal can eat 1,000 mosquitoes in 24 hours. Move over,…