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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By GREGORY ZELLER // You’ve heard the grim news: Nitrates, phosphates, arsenates and pharmaceuticals are migrating to local rivers and lakes and ultimately to the Island’s underground aquifers of fresh…
A new U.S. distribution agreement puts a Long Island healthcare-products stalwart in the thick of the fight against type 2 diabetes. Global medical-technology provider Medtronic has selected Henry Schein Medical,…
LawNearMe.com, a website that helps mobile users quickly find local attorneys when necessary, is finding its deeper side. The millennial-focused startup, launched last year by Jericho native Samuel Shusterhoff, a…
By GREGORY ZELLER // An MIT-centric network bringing maker spaces to the masses may soon spread to Long Island. Launched in 2001 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the FabLabs…