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…
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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,…
Applied DNA Sciences lands energy vet Catell
A major-league energy veteran with global pop will help guide Applied DNA Sciences’ approach to power-grid protection. The Stony Brook-based supply-chain, anti-counterfeiting, anti-theft and product-authentication specialist has appointed Robert Catell…
Wheeling, dealing toward LI’s energy future
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Selden-based supply-chain specialist and Eastern Suffolk BOCES are plowing innovative pathways toward good jobs in burgeoning alternative-energy fields. Dynamic Supplier Alignment is teaming with the…
CEBIP sees a possible future in NYSERDA fund
By GREGORY ZELLER // A fresh $10 million investment will support early-stage clean-energy companies plugged into New York’s disparate business-incubator ecosystem – and one Long Island business program is especially…
Northwell hospitals target pulmonary embolisms
Southside Hospital is now busting up blood clots with new tech that promises to shorten treatment time and reduce potential complications. Joining several sister hospitals throughout the Northwell Health system,…
IPS-designed smart safe enters the war on drugs
By GREGORY ZELLER // Perpetual monitoring of your prescription medications is now an app away. A Westchester distributor has taken to Indiegogo with humanity’s “first Internet of Things-integrated personal safe,”…