Mobile, VR will top ‘smart’ 2018 tech trends
By MITCH MAIMAN // Technology has become such a pervasive part of our home and work life that for many of us, it’s hard to sort out the fads from…
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NYU Langone pumps up Winthrop heart services
By GREGORY ZELLER // Good news for a Long Island patient population that can use some: A new slate of leading-edge cardiovascular disease-related procedures has come to Nassau County. Mineola’s…
Getting the Drop on new co-working spaces
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island’s intriguing co-working marketplace is growing again, in more ways than one. Bridgeworks founder Graham Beck is already an entrepreneurial innovator in the regional co-working…
Islanders drive $1B ‘economic engine’ to Belmont Park
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Islanders are coming home. With eighth-wonder-of-the-world fanfare, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the 10th proposal of his 2018 State of the State agenda Wednesday: bringing home…
Northwell, Mather finally head down the aisle
By GREGORY ZELLER // John T. Mather Memorial Hospital and the mighty Northwell Health system will officially tie the knot this week. Kenneth Roberts, president of the Port Jefferson-based hospital,…
Stony Brook research pioneers land major NAI honors
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two Stony Brook University professors have been elected fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, among the highest honors bestowed upon academic innovators. Arie Kaufman, distinguished…
NSUH earns $800K grant for family-focused HIV care
A Manhasset hospital has received more than $800,000 in federal monies to provide HIV care for women and children. North Shore University Hospital announced this week that it was one…
Holiday sale: Henry Schein snags Georgia tech firm
The world’s largest distributor of animal-health products, among other thriving interspecies healthcare verticals, has acquired a new cloud-based weapon for its business-development arsenal. Melville-based Henry Schein announced Monday the acquisition…
Missiles, cars, leather … finally, biotech pushes pills
By GREGORY ZELLER // A biotech with a penchant for leather, foreign automobiles, high-tech weaponry and next-gen digital imaging is finally getting around to pharmaceuticals. Actually, that’s not true –…
IDA’s numbers look right to Broadridge Investor Coms
By GREGORY ZELLER // An investor-communications specialist will upgrade and expand in Suffolk County, with a little help from the county’s Industrial Development Agency. The IDA on Thursday gave preliminary…
With ‘Fellows’ effort, SBU podcasts a wider net
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s a big week for podcast innovations on Long Island. Just days after the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell launched a serialized…
After decades of debate, $2B LIRR ‘third track’ is a go
By GREGORY ZELLER // All aboard – the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has approved a roughly $2 billion deal to design and build the Long Island Rail Road’s long-debated “third track.”…
Long Island REDC rebounds with ‘Top’ $84.3M haul
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Long Island Regional Economic Development Council is back on top, once again ranked as a “Top Performer” in Albany’s annual REDC sweepstakes with a hefty…
Debrief: Bill Lindsay III is on a manufacturing mission
Lack of skilled workers and overregulation are among the issues undercutting Long Island manufacturers. And they’re in the crosshairs of the Long Island Manufacturing Task Force, unanimously approved this month…
Real-life drama paces new Hofstra/Northwell podcast
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s “Real World” meets “Grey’s Anatomy” in a new Zucker School of Medicine podcast, which dives deep into the lives of first-year medical students. Providing a…