Watchdog: Newsday buyback is good news
By GREGORY ZELLER // The international horse-trading that landed Long Island’s primary newspaper back in domestic hands is a horse of another color for a staunch opponent of the recent…
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Applied DNA, Melville startup in doc deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences has its eyes on sensitive government documents and critical legal evidence. The Stony Brook-based supply-chain, anti-counterfeiting, anti-theft and product-authentication specialist has signed a…
Winthrop, NYU Langone in partnership talks
Mineola’s Winthrop-University Hospital is in partnership talks with NYU Langone Medical Center. “This first step represents a momentous milestone for Winthrop,” John Collins, the hospital’s president and chief executive, said…
GE stall, Asian slump nip Park Electrochemical
A weakened Asian market contributed to year-over-year and quarterly drops in net sales and earnings for Park Electrochemical Corp. – though an international aerospace rebound may have the Melville manufacturer…
Coming together to manufacture LI’s future
By GREGORY ZELLER // A multi-agency effort to give displaced workers modern manufacturing skills is about to graduate its first batch of reeducated professionals. And the Advanced Manufacturing Training program…
MTA’s mobile-ticketing app debuts on LIRR
A Long Island Rail Road branch is one of the first regional railroads to offer remote ticket purchasing through the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s new eTix app. MTA eTix officially debuted…
Economic development with surgical precision
By GREGORY ZELLER // With design in its DNA, MIDI Medical Product Development has a long commercialization history. With its new Innovation Center, the veteran Smithtown maker is focused squarely…
Top SBDC honors for three LI entrepreneurs
Three Long Island small-business owners were among nine statewide earning SUNY Entrepreneur of the Year honors this week. Two clients of the Farmingdale State College Small Business Development Center and…
Understanding the specifics of a business divorce
By CARL CORRY // Breaking up is hard to do, so Uniondale-based law firm Farrell Fritz has set up a practice group to make things as easy as possible for…
Ex-Briarcliffe College prez gets technical at TCI
The Manhattan-based TCI College of Technology has tapped a longtime Long Island college administrator to be its new president. Bethpage resident George Santiago Jr. is TCI’s new president and CEO,…
Arrow’s ACES strengthens IPS’s hand
By GREGORY ZELLER // Holding several ACES, it’s fair to say Intelligent Product Solutions likes the hand it’s been dealt. In the six months since Arrow Electronics named the Hauppauge-based…
LaunchPad, EisnerAmper pitch in on VC
By GREGORY ZELLER // Six Long Island startups made their way to Midtown Manhattan Monday night to pitch directly to top-shelf investors, a golden opportunity that could serve as a…
Global ‘honor,’ and opportunity, for Spectronics
By GREGORY ZELLER // A 20-year veteran of the automotive aftermarket will represent Spectronics Corp. on the influential Overseas Automotive Council. Dan Tristan, who manages Latin American and Asian-Pacific sales…
New director spearheads Northwell liver effort
Northwell Health’s drive for a new liver-transplant program kicked into gear Monday with the appointment of a new transplantation director. Lewis Teperman has been named the new vice chair of…
Unwrapping the farm-to-box movement
BY CARL CORRY // Satur Farms is keeping up with the Joneses with a vertical push into mail-order markets. When Paulette Satur and her husband, Eberhard Müller, first bought an…