Northrop Grumman deal locked, and potentially loaded
Northrop Grumman’s Long Island unit is breaking out the big guns, thanks to a new multi-year contract with the U.S. Navy. United States Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Bethpage-based…
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Productivity, in the age of telecommuting
By SHONA ST. ANGELO // Many companies across the country, such as Aetna and Dell, are allowing employees to work remotely. Employees save money normally spent on gas and transit…
Don Monti Foundation backs cancer ‘navigator’
Not every healthcare innovation involves a radical pharmaceutical or breakthrough technology. In a next-level advancement of purely human proportions, the Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation will underwrite a $95,000-a-year “cancer…
Moiety app makes long-anticipated Android debut
BY GREGORY ZELLER // It’s a little late showing up, but that probably won’t happen anymore. In a quantum scheduling leap for the Samsung set, the Moiety app debuted Tuesday…
Researchers zoom in on schizophrenia biomarkers
A Feinstein Institute for Medical Research scientist will focus next-level imaging techniques on schizophrenia and other brain disorders, thanks to a hefty federal grant. Research scientist Anil Malhotra – a…
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…
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…