FSC: How to (safely) earn a commercial drone license
By GREGORY ZELLER // As the nation’s skies clog with Unmanned Aerial Systems, the Federal Aviation Administration is ratcheting up its licensing protocols – and Farmingdale State College is ready…
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Getting excited about Hofstra’s ‘Startup Weekend’
By GREGORY ZELLER // A marathon business-development exercise with a global lineage will give Long Island entrepreneurs a commercialization crash course, with two feet on the accelerator. Hofstra University is…
Stock deal locks funds for Scythian marijuana study
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Canadian R&D firm with Long Island roots has locked up the first tranche of a strategic investment that will fund a major study involving concussions…
FlightPartner, now landing everywhere
By GREGORY ZELLER // Now, everyone is in the air-charter-booking business. Well, not precisely. But any website can host the new “Quote and Booking” widget released this month by FlightPartner…
Pilgrim innovations trim energy costs, emissions
A relatively small footnote in New York State’s energy-efficiency annals will deliver lasting benefits to taxpayers and the air they breathe. A $1 million “energy-saving project” has been completed at…
LISTnet’s bursting Ballpark adds new office
By GREGORY ZELLER // They’re cramming them into the Digital Ballpark, the Long Island Software & Technology Network’s price-controlled Plainview co-working space. Currently juggling about 20 full-time residents, the Ballpark…
FalconStor shares down 30% on weak quarter, year
Melville-based data storage firm FalconStor Software (FALC) reported lower fourth quarter revenue for 2016, news that sent company shares down more than 30 percent for the week, to .43 cents,…
Northwell, drug-maker ink bioelectronics partnership
By GREGORY ZELLER // Bioelectronic medicine has taken another forward leap, thanks to the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research’s latest professional alliance. The research-and-development arm of the Northwell Health system…
Bottom line shines at Planet Payment
By GREGORY ZELLER // It was an up quarter to end an up year at Planet Payment Inc. Reporting Wednesday on the fourth quarter of its 2016 fiscal year, which…
Admiring healthcare’s long view, seventeen years in
By GREGORY ZELLER // With a steely eye on an often-overlooked population and a dramatic growth plan in the works, eVero Corp. is in it for the long haul. That’s…
In craft brewing, tapping the power of women
By JIM MCCUNE // Though it’s a bit of a boy’s club today, craft brewing was historically a women-run enterprise, first a domestic chore dating back almost four millennia, then…
Rockefeller researcher nabs Feinstein’s molecular prize
Advanced molecular-genetics studies have earned a Rockefeller University researcher accolades from the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, and a fat check. While Feinstein Institute scientists are often the ones collecting…
Can Chembio rebound? You bet your assays
By GREGORY ZELLER // Chembio Diagnostics Systems Inc. has significantly diversified its product portfolio, built up its global sales infrastructure and expanded its operational capacities – but the numbers just…
A-10 charge blasts books, but CPI Aero set to soar
By GREGORY ZELLER // Don’t be fooled by the numbers at CPI Aerostructures Inc., which on Tuesday reported a dramatic decline in fourth-quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 revenues – but…
Energy, life sciences pace 2017 Innovation Boot Camp
By GREGORY ZELLER // Several innovators sitting on potentially game-changing technologies have been selected for one of Long Island’s most effective commercialization crash courses. Stony Brook University has announced the…