Design Edge up for top toy honors
By GREGORY ZELLER // Friends up high in the Walt Disney Co. and a digital upgrade have revived a popular children’s product from a decade ago – and earned the…
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BNL lands 2 ‘Oscars of Innovation’
Brookhaven National Laboratory has been honored once more by R&D Magazine, which counted two BNL-developed technologies among its top 100 tech innovations of the year. Known as the “Oscars of…
LIBN parent selling to community paper group
GateHouse Media, a shopper and community news publisher with hundreds of titles in small markets across the United States, has agreed to acquire Dolan LLC, the parent company of Long…
Wading once more into the crowd that loves them
By GREGORY ZELLER // Consider it a home-brewed version of Kickstarter. Riverhead’s Moustache Brewing Co., which launched following a successful 2012 campaign on the group-funding site, is once again appealing…
ThermoLift added to WF Innovation Incubator
Stony Brook clean-energy startup ThermoLift has been added to Wells Fargo’s Innovation Incubator, a five-year, $10 million program designed to help accelerate next-gen environmental technologies. ThermoLift will receive up to $250,000 in…
Charmtech sets its sights on the mainstream
By GREGORY ZELLER // Interactive software designed to make digital content accessible to the vision- and learning-impaired may soon change the way everyone surfs the web. It’s the natural evolution…
LI wins $98.3M in state eco-dev contest
Long Island was awarded $98.3 million in state aid for construction and other projects that boost job creation in the state’s annual economic development competition, making it one of the…
Life is sweet for Backyard Brine. And sour. And spicy and …
By GREGORY ZELLER // Randy Kopke knows there’s an artisan in all of us. For the self-employed contractor – tile and masonry, mostly – it turned out to be pickling,…
Mary Putre hopes to shovel all the way to the bank
By GREGORY ZELLER // “Snow hurts,” says Mary Putre. And it’s not just because she has two surgically repaired shoulders. Every Long Island home and business owner knows clearing snow…
Symbiotic Health, Goddard Labs eye Brooklyn move
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two of Long Island’s most-promising biotech startups are packing up their R&D and heading for greener pastures. At least for now. Symbiotic Health and Goddard Labs…
Never an identity crisis at Tools4Ever
By GREGORY ZELLER // Couple old-fashioned customer service with ever-evolving product ideas and always think like a startup. That’s how Dean Wiech describes the recipe for Tools4ever, a global provider…
Hot Spots program hot stuff for startups
Stony Brook University on Friday officially launched the region’s Innovation Hot Spot program, a state initiative that offers tax breaks, mentoring, education and business development help for startup companies housed…
Collaboration that goes well beyond the pale
By JIMMY MCCUNE // Several years after opening A Taste of Long Island, a shared commercial kitchen and local-specialty food market, home brewer and foodpreneur Jim Thompson and his daughter…
Glen Cove brownfields in line for Albany support
Roughly 630 acres across two Nassau County sites are among the statewide properties designated Thursday for Albany-supported revitalization opportunities. All told, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the designation of 11 new…
A lot more than pipe dreams for ULC Robotics
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two steps ahead of “the next big boost to the U.S. economy,” there is ULC Robotics. The “big boost” in this case is robotics, and the…