Varun Mehta’s voyage of self-Disqovery
By GREGORY ZELLER // When founder and CEO Varun Mehta incorporated app-maker Disqovery Inc. in 2013, even he wasn’t sure what, exactly, it would be. Then a student at Harvard…
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Ruchi Shah creates a buzz
By GREGORY ZELLER // There’s ingenuity, there’s determination and there’s rock-solid fundamental science. Then there’s Ruchi Shah. To say the Stony Brook University senior – hurtling toward a bachelor’s degree…
Clean water advocates are flush with ideas
Cutting the ribbon on a new shopping center used to be an elected official’s dream photo-op. Today, it’s unveiling a septic system install. That’s real progress on a couple of fronts….
North Shore shows off new logo
North Shore-LIJ unveiled the logo it will use next year as it becomes Northwell Health, with a first look going to the system’s 61,000 employees. “With our new name comes…
Fred Dunwoody has the write stuff
By GREGORY ZELLER // Fred Dunwoody’s decades in the sales divisions of major-league imaging firms like Canon, Minolta and Konica taught him the future wasn’t in the copiers they sold…
Technology, the toast of San Francisco
San Francisco voters took to the polls Tuesday for what was billed as a referendum on technology, specifically how techsters have ruined the city by driving up apartment prices, turning…
Bettr, above ground and rising
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s not an after-school project anymore. When we last left James Knaus and Ashish Pandhi in April, the enterprising Hofstra University students were working in Pandhi’s…
Paumanok scores big at Wine Advocate
Mark Squires, a former Philadelphia attorney turned full-time wine obsessive, is taking his new assignment on Wine Advocate’s Long Island watch seriously. Beginning in June, when he released some of…
Henry Schein posts leap in net profits
Melville-based Henry Schein reported an 11.3 percent jump in net profits for the third quarter on Wednesday. And that despite an $8.4 million pre-tax restructuring charge. Net profits were $127.7 million, or…
Buncee seeks $3M (or so) for growth spurt
By GREGORY ZELLER // Buncee notched its 80,000th user on Monday, a cause for celebration certainly, but also a bittersweet milestone for the Calverton-based “digital canvas.” It’s been great so…
The Debrief: Connie Cleary has a license to deal
Connie Cleary plays two key roles at Brookhaven National Laboratory: Promoting the amazing science – and vast commercialization potential – happening at the Department of Energy facility, and helping entrepreneurs…
Schein acquires Italian dental firm
Another day, another acquisition of a company with annual revenues in the $40 million range. Just one day after announcing the acquisition of a majority share of Pennsylvania-based animal-health software…
Medical supplier buys stake in vet-tech firm
Just a week after brushing up its dental prospects, Henry Schein is expanding its animal kingdom. The Melville-based healthcare products distributor announced Monday that it has acquired a majority share…
Nixon Peabody named top health law firm
Nixon Peabody has been named the nation’s No. 1 law firm in health care law by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers, the legal profession’s top journal of…
Newport award for local light design
In a bright advance for boater safety, an innovative dome light for powerboat and sailboat cabins created by two Long Island companies has been honored by judges at the Newport…