By GREGORY ZELLER Investment partners Accelerate Long Island and the Long Island Emerging Technologies Fund announced a $100,000 infusion into Right Dose Inc., a high-tech startup borne from research conducted…
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Kickstarter crowdfunding platform is a worthy metaphor for humanity itself. Invented by necessity and forever evolving, it’s a vast engine of ingenuity fueled by the…
A week after folding in agile developer Rally Software, CA Technologies has hired a familiar name to help run it all. Otto Berkes, a veteran technology executive at HBO and…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Codagenix, the Stony Brook biotech startup, has been awarded a $100,000 federal grant to develop a vaccine for the infectious Foot and Mouth Disease Virus. Funding…
Hofstra University was awarded $2 million in state grants on Monday to expand its School of Engineering and Applied Science and create new laboratories and classrooms focusing on big data…
Three-year-old Accelerate Long Island has been quietly investing in biotech and clean-gen startups, building an MIT-styled mentoring program and pulling together the stray ends of the entrepreneurial ecosystem via dinners,…
Technology veteran Keith Sherwell has been named chief information officer at Cablevision, leaving a similar job at Office Depot after nine months. The Cablevision post is a new position that…
eGifter, the Huntington-based digital gifting platform, has closed on a $3.5 million investment round and announced a partnership that will expand the brand in Europe. The funding comes from the Long…
By GREGORY ZELLER // With new refrigeration standards sweeping the globe, a Bay Shore company with proprietary rights to an advanced coolant formula is poised to cash in on a…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Brad Darrohn likes beer. Specifically, the partner at Bohemia-based online marketing firm Fishbat enjoys craft beers, those brewed in small batches by local beer lovers like…
With the cost of a successful presidential campaign now pegged above $1 billion, no surprise Hillary Clinton is selling campaign geegaws that were once standard giveaways. Supporters are being asked…
CA Technologies has agreed to acquire Rally Software Development Corp., a Boulder-based software and services firm, for $19.50 per share, or roughly $480 million. Shares of Rally jumped 45 percent…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Hundreds of millions of dollars, 250,000 square feet, dozens of laboratories and one throbbing center at the heart of a reinvigorated Long Island economy. Yep. Kevin…
Start-Up NY won narrow support from voters in a Siena College poll released Tuesday, with 52 percent of respondents saying they favor the program, which gives tax breaks to companies…
By GREGORY ZELLER // And you thought only children built with blocks. Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists do, too – only their blocks are about one-billionth of a meter long and…