Apprentices, TEDx Talk to highlight Adelphi thinkers
By GREGORY ZELLER // Young minds will shine in two upcoming Adelphi University events – one a regional stage for entrepreneurial thinkers, the other a national platform for society’s biggest…
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Exploring the science of recruiting, with savvy
By GREGORY ZELLER // Felicia Fleitman is in no rush. Don’t call her “slow and steady,” because development of her first-ever startup, Westbury-based Savvy Hires, is not going slowly, but…
The SBU ecologist who came in from the cold
If you’ve ever dreamt of tracking Antarctic penguin populations – and really, who hasn’t? – Stony Brook University can now make it happen. No, the university won’t fly you to…
Melville still gets Italian pharma’s blood pumping
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island biotech with Italian roots will stay in Melville as it grows its family. Based in the Tuscany town of Barga, Italy, Kedrion Biopharma…
The Debrief: Bob Catell’s newest application
Robert Catell has taken a board seat at Stony Brook-based anti-counterfeiting biotech Applied DNA Sciences, the latest addition to a résumé overflowing with executive accolades. A former chairman of KeySpan…
Reaching out from LI’s only Foreign Trade Zone
By GREGORY ZELLER // With a fresh deal and room to grow, Long Island’s only designated Foreign Trade Zone is in expansion mode. The 52-acre Ronkonkoma industrial park – officially…
Cuomo hailed as LI Welcome Center opens doors
By GREGORY ZELLER // The congratulations were plentiful and the praise for Gov. Andrew Cuomo thick, though rainmakers heralding the opening of the new Long Island Welcome Center Thursday morning…
Island suffered late summer job losses
Long Island’s private sector lost 9,800 jobs between August and September, more than twice the historical rate, the Labor Department reported. Professional and business services, which lost 2,900 jobs in September,…
Moiety arrives on iOS; Android coming soon
Moiety has arrived. The scheduling app by Woodbury-based Aeonic Ventures LLC, useful for any social group but designed to be specifically helpful to separated co-parents and their “crews,” officially debuted…
Bob Quarté wants 10 minutes of your time
Accounting firm AVZ launched its annual economic survey and opinion poll in 1994 as a way to take the pulse of local business and, hey, if it happened to generate a little buzz…
View from the top, now on the bottom rung
By GREGORY ZELLER // If there’s one thing Corrinne Graham learned from starting at the top, it’s the value of starting at the bottom. A multiple degree-holder – including a…
NY certifies Teq’s online professional development
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York is turning to Teq to keep the state’s teachers up-to-speed on their professional development. The Huntington Station-based education-tech distributor has been selected by the New…
At Cohen, $10M and much-less-scary MRIs
A $10 million pledge from one of its top contributors will bring a unique, child-friendly MRI system to the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center. The New Hyde Park…
International intrigue at Medford’s Chembio
By GREGORY ZELLER // With declining Latin American sales contributing to a revenues losing streak, Chembio Diagnostics has shaken up its international rotation. The Medford-based biotech, which manufactures rapid point-of-care…
Beware, bathroom burglars: Shlocker’s locked in
By GREGORY ZELLER // It was the toothbrush on the floor that got him. Tal Berke wouldn’t be the first inventor to think up a new-and-improved product in the shower,…