Things is: For LI’s boldest, IoT opportunities abound
By MITCH MAIMAN // While smart, connected devices – collectively known as the Internet of Things – are already maturing, there are still incredible new business opportunities to be discovered…
Hofstra University
Hofstra plays past pandemic with new Innovation Prize
By GREGORY ZELLER // Hofstra University’s most ambitious business-acceleration effort has added a hefty prize for creative pandemic-related thinking. Along with partners Northwell Health, New York City-based media/tech firm Digital…
Island innovators mourn loss of LIFT leader Muscarella
By RAY DONNELLY and JULIE ALLEGRETTI // The light switches have been off at the Long Island Forum for Technology for years, but sadly, the brightest light of LIFT is…
No. 554: Indiana arrives, Concordes soar, Hofstra picks a prez and Adelphi goes to the Grammys
The end is nigh: And nobody’s complaining, dear reader, as we wrap up this blustery workweek and anticipate a weekend of bustling holiday shopping – or what passes for…
Data, diversity drive new Hofstra University president
By GREGORY ZELLER // An ambitious and effective academic leader with a major-league résumé and a long history of diversity-centered initiatives will take Hofstra University’s reins this summer. The university’s…
No. 551: Indoctrinating, stimulating and surveillance testing – and bringing the extinct back to life
Reunited: And it feels so good, dear readers, as we’re back on schedule and back in your inbox, right where we belong. It’s OK to say you missed us….
Planes, trains, autos: Wheels up on LIMA ‘ground hub’
By GREGORY ZELLER // A key component of the Long Island Regional Economic Development Council’s strategic investment has taken flight – actually, broken ground – at Long Island MacArthur Airport….
The crowd goes quiet: For sports, the psyche of silence
By GREGORY ZELLER // You’ve been there, sports fan: bottom of the ninth, sudden-death overtime, one-point lead, two-minute warning, third and long, the odd-man rush, the alley-oop, the champ goes…
No. 525: On Wilt the Stilt, Lincoln and ‘Looney Tunes’ – and a dose of reality for Walt Whitman
Good Friday: You’ve done it again, dear readers … another long workweek bested, another summery weekend earned. Well done. Since we can’t do it properly – bellying up in…
No. 523: Veteran ‘Ventures,’ pandemic page-turners and throwing shots with the real Doc Holliday
Engines of innovation: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, as we race to the end of another sticky summer workweek and throttle down for another well-earned weekend. Low key: It’s…
Coghlan: Opportunity abounds, for the flexible
By HARRY COGHLAN // It is disorientating (to say the least) to think back on our original plans and goals for 2020, and realize how so many of them had…
Phase Four arrives on LI, with bombs bursting in air
By GREGORY ZELLER // Strap yourselves in, Long Island, but keep strapping on those facemasks. And batten the hatches for some political fallout, too – Phase Four has arrived, with…
No. 509: On peanut butter cookies, LaGuardia Airport and kelp – plus baseball (remember that?)
Phase 2 Friday: You’ve done it again, dear readers! Another tough workweek conquered – and, as your reward, Long Island’s first weekend under Phase 2 reopening protocols. Well played!…
No. 506: On eggs, Olds, strategic tax breaks and Anderson Cooper, plus a rare Adelphi honor
Stuck in the middle: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as Long Island languishes in Phase 1 and we innovate our way through another quasi-quarantined workweek. Ready, set, Joe’s: It’s…
At Hofstra, getting pretty good at this pandemic pivot
By GREGORY ZELLER // Still planning an in-person grand finale for October, one of Hofstra University’s most popular entrepreneurship efforts has transitioned – smoothly, if temporarily – to a virtual…