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…
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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…
Giving high school inventors the business
By GREGORY ZELLER // A sensor-filled table to assist the autistic, an innovative method to save subway stations from storm-surge flooding … no doubt about it, these students were thinking…
U.S. Senate could boost LI manufacturers
By CARL CORRY // Small and medium-sized manufacturers on Long Island and elsewhere will have a better chance to thrive if bipartisan legislation to improve a nationwide manufacturer-support program survives its…
Suffolk IDA makes Comtech pitch
Rack that up as a fairly profitable day for Comtech Telecommunications Corp. First, the Melville-based high-tech manufacturer announced Thursday morning that it has received a $1.3 million funded order from…
SCORE, Canon USA set small-biz forum
By GREGORY ZELLER // Dozens of Long Island business owners are about to get a crash course in successful small-business management – courtesy of one of the Island’s largest corporations….
With servo press, new game for Check-Mate
By GREGORY ZELLER // West Babylon manufacturer Check-Mate Industries is stepping up its game – good news for the top names in the firearms and medical-device industries. Launched four decades…