Checking in with: Brimes Energy’s Ram Maramara
By GREGORY ZELLER // The artificial jellyfish is heading to the Philippines. And perhaps the Caribbean. And someday soon, maybe everywhere else. Brimes Energy, a member of Stony Brook University’s…
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Famularo to head ERwin, move HQ to LI
Tampa-based software firm ERwin Inc. plans to move its executive offices to Long Island. Makes sense: Newly minted CEO Adam Famularo lives in Garden City. Famularo, a former CA executive…
NYPSC delays decision on Cablevision sale
The New York Public Service Commission will take a little longer to render a verdict on Altice’s $17.7 billion acquisition of Cablevision Systems. Originally scheduled to say yay or nay…
Waldman joining wealth management firm
Lawrence Waldman will join wealth management firm First Long Island Investors next month as a managing director, the firm announced Tuesday. Waldman, a former managing partner at KPMG and currently…
Innovate government, win $100K
The Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard is accepting nominations for its annual Innovations Award, the nation’s premier recognition for smart thinking in the public…
Have a lumbar sciatica? You want the O-Arm
By GREGORY ZELLER // The first Long Island spinal surgeries incorporating a state-of-the-art “intraoperative surgical imaging system” have been successfully completed, with many more to come. In early March, Robert…
LI’s industrial might looks to Hannover
By GREGORY ZELLER // This year’s version of the world’s largest industrial-technology trade fair will have some serious Long Island flavor. Through the 102 Export Assistance Offices operated nationally by…
Morey debuts alternative financial news site
By GREGORY ZELLER // For Jed Morey, namesake of Garden City-based media company Morey Publishing, there are always alternatives. They certainly define his firm, a journalism/sales/graphic design/CRM hybrid that delicately…
Russian space geeks hitch their wagon to a star
Have an extra $7 you can’t figure out what to do with? You could help launch the first manmade star. That’s the smallest Kickstarter donation level for Mayak, a giant…
A promising future treatment for lupus
By GREGORY ZELLER // There’s a long tunnel ahead, but for millions around the world suffering from lupus, the light at the end shines brightly. That’s the fervent belief of…
The road to the final $100K
Entrepreneurial innovators from Long Island’s top colleges and universities will go head-to-head on Thursday in the regional round of the New York State Business Plan Competition. With $30,000 in prizes…
LI’s $330M innovation budget
The state delivered on promises to help move Long Island’s innovation economy forward, with more than $330 million tucked away in various pots of the just-passed 2016-17 budget. The headliner:…
ULC Robotics lands FAA drone certification
A Long Island robotics developer has earned the Federal Aviation Administration’s permission to operate unmanned aerial systems below 400 feet anywhere in the United States. The Section 333 Exemption gives…
Extended beta complete, meet Bettr for iOS
By GREGORY ZELLER // Bettr late than never. Originally scheduled to go live in December, Bettr – the social media-management app invented by Hofstra University chums James Knaus and Ashish…
Before the cure, an HIV inhibitor?
By GREGORY ZELLER A cure for AIDS? Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Few people understand the molecular world like Stony Brook prof Carol Carter, and the longtime researcher will tell…