No. 68: Lumbergh-speak, Google poaching and a DiNapoli probe
I’M GOING TO NEED YOU TO GO AHEAD AND READ THIS: A study of more than 250K Enron emails found that company executives commonly used phrases made famous by Office Space…
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No. 67: Tate’s, Harding did it and the race to xyz
THE WORLD, SHOT: Yesterday was World Overshoot Day, the date mankind’s demands of the planet exceed its ability to regenerate, according to the Global Footprint Network. In 2000, the overshoot fell…
No. 66: Funny in Jamestown, craft beer and a really amazing iPhone 5
SPEAKING OF BEER: Craft beer production climbed to 12.2M barrels in the first half of 2015, a jump of 16%, according to the Boulder-based Brewers Association trade group. That’s not as…
No. 65: Chimps are chimps, KFC’s bucket of print and a 1990s love song machine
TGIF: A good Friday everybody and a special welcome to new readers. It’s National System Administrator Day, so be sure to give yours a hug. After you clear it with HR,…
No. 64: Leventhal goes bold, LP at NYIT and call it Melwoes Credit Union
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…
No. 63: USB Jeep fix, a greener Jeb Bush and Amazon counts down
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…
No. 62: Dodging debris, hot times in Ottawa and say goodbye to 03142
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…
No. 61: Murcott moves, Vroom vrooms and WeWork inches closer
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…
No. 60: Gwyneth’s Goop gig, Carrie nation and you won’t believe what they know from your zip code
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…
No. 59: Buncee up, Quirky down and the earliest look at Pluto
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…
No. 58: Russ Artzt, bio-Legos and a brief mention of unmentionables
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…
No. 57: Google carpools, Chipotle porks up and the state of U.S. beer drinking
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…
No. 56: Domegemegrottebytes, Google Glass and what a Benjamin’s really worth
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…
No. 55: Wind-powered bridges, a cool new brew and the machines are coming to Wall Street
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…
No. 54: Frack not, no-waste mayo and is one Beach Boy a band?
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…