V-50 … Vengo! In a Blink, next-gen vendor expands
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island vending machine company with an innovative hook and a multimillion-dollar pedigree has expanded its dealings with a thriving multistate customer – and deployed…
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Huntington Hospital chills out with new air-cooled AC
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island hospital has replaced its older air-conditioning system with a network of air-cooled “chillers” – an energy-efficient upgrade expected to create big annual savings….
Eye, eye: Queens eyewear distributor coming to Suffolk
A Queens-based distributor of high-end reading glasses and sunglasses is relocating to Farmingdale. Creative Group Inc., currently located in Ridgewood, has agreed to buy a 21,500-square-foot warehouse in Farmingdale and…
Digital Remedy merger, new COO microcast a wider net
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Growing in More Ways Than One File comes Digital Remedy, a New York City digital advertiser with a Long Island pedigree, an impressive new…
With Patient Innovations, the wait may be over
By GREGORY ZELLER // Patient Innovations does not have modest goals. Citing a sad legacy of waiting-room delays and other gross inefficiencies costing healthcare providers both time and money, the…
Debrief: CSHL’s Whiteley fills shoes, answers needs
A seasoned veteran of scientific- and medical-research commercialization, Andrew Whiteley stepped up this month to take over Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s technology-transfer operations from Teri Willey, who served five years…
CSHL podcast up for a Webby Award (or two)
A Long Island-based podcast is in the running for a top Internet honor – two, actually. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s “Base Pairs” podcast, hosted by Andrea Alfano and Brian Stallard,…
Top physicist Gates to keynote SUNY Research Day
By GREGORY ZELLER // A noted theoretical physicist and strong proponent of diversity in the laboratory will keynote SUNY-Old Westbury’s annual Student Research Day. Sylvester James Gates Jr., the Ford…
New parent for veteran Ronkonkoma machinist
By GREGORY ZELLER // An established Long Island machine shop with three decades of professional output has been acquired by an Ohio-based aerospace manufacturer – but will continue operating in…
Filling a modest plate, sweetly, at startup Foodcubate
By AMY ONORATO // The food industry is Anna Kotler’s bread and butter. The 20-year marketing veteran built her career working on brand development for food-focused Fortune 500 companies like…
‘Adaptive reuse’ makes its mark on Long Island (sorta)
By GREGORY ZELLER // “Adaptive reuse” is on the rise, bringing new life to outmoded infrastructure and new hope to struggling regional economies. That’s the big takeaway from a new…
Rethinking the science of business (and clean energy)
By AMY ONORATO // Becoming an entrepreneur introduced Slawa Solovyov to a new way of thinking about science – a mindset incorporating business and marketing factors that went beyond straight…
Island epilepsy centers earn national reaccreditation
By GREGORY ZELLER // The National Association of Epilepsy Centers has re-upped five Northwell Health epilepsy programs, including three on Long Island. The Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Manhasset’s North Shore…
Harvesting cash crops on a sprouting ‘urban farm’
By AMY ONORATO // Don DiLillo’s entrepreneurial journey doesn’t begin in a boardroom, but a basement – in his parents’ basement, on homemade shelves, in boxes of soil and seeds….
Robocall terminator sets sights on data thieves
By GREGORY ZELLER // Bad news for data thieves: The Terminator is coming for you. Robocall-ridding, autodialer-assassinating, telemarketer-terminating Nomorobo is extending its shields beyond voice calls and spam texts. The…