ESPN seeks legal halt to Verizon packaging
As threatened, ESPN has filed suit in New York’s Supreme Court over Verizon’s decision to include the sports network in its new discounted pay-TV package. The legal fight could slow…
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17 join Start-Up NY program, but none on LI
A host of new companies have joined the Start-Up NY program, giving Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s flagging jobs-creation program a needed shot in the arm. Taking heavy fire over the program,…
New distribution deal in hand, Teq looks to bulk up
BY GREGORY ZELLER // Teq, the Huntington-based educational software firm, is about to go on a hiring spree after announcing a new international distribution deal. A producer of innovative classroom…
Happy Earth Week, Robert Moses
A 500-kilowatt solar energy system will turn Robert Moses State Park into the nation’s first energy-neutral state park. As part of New York’s Earth Week observances, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced…
Henry Schein’s $11 billion niche
BY GREGORY ZELLER// Even for a company as large as Henry Schein, months don’t get much bigger than this. On April 17, one of Long Island’s best-known brands marked its…
In infrastructure, cautious gratefulness
BY GREGORY ZELLER // Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the award of $22 million in federal grants to rebuild New York bridges, reinforce sea walls and strengthen anti-flooding measures this…
Traverse readies the move to market
BY GREGORY ZELLER // Armed with a just-executed licensing agreement for a suite of anti-inflammatory drug therapies, two-year-old Traverse Biosciences is stepping up efforts to land the investors and strategic…
OPINION: Cuomo didn’t have to go so far south
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was in Cuba this week to push his Global New York strategy, which seeks to expand trade and other business opportunities for Empire State companies. At…
At Hofstra, collaboration without losing your stuff
BY GREGORY ZELLER // A Hofstra University effort to combine industrial and educational forces is breaking the innovation mold. And intellectual property rights are only part of the sea change….
Watson makes $1M CSHL gift
A million-dollar donation to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory? Doctor Watson, we presume. And that presumption, of course, is correct: CSHL Chancellor Emeritus James Watson and his wife, Liz, have done…
Feinstein partnering with Australian pharma
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research has inked a partnership deal with Novogen, an Australian pharmaceuticals giant and parent company of San Diego-based MEI Pharma, which produces a growing list…
Looking to make a splash
Industrialist Ramuel Maramara may have reinvented the way oceanic energy is harvested. If his artificial jellyfish proves seaworthy. That’s the next big test for Maramara and Brimes Energy, the Stony…
Hofstra’s CPXi pitch challenge nears finals
Hofstra University is shaking up this year’s CPXi Venture Tech Challenge, a $100,000 student business-plan contest that’s touted as one of the richest in the country. Now in its third…
DEBRIEF: Paul Lipsky, MindYolk/LIVP
It takes a village. That basically defines Paul Lipsky’s hankering to unite Long Island’s creative-tech community. A digital animator with 25 years of professional experience, Lipsky is the CEO of…
State’s job board sets record on tech employment
Tech-based jobs rule the roost on New York State’s Jobs Express website, an online resource looking to connect the unemployed with companies in search of fresh blood. According to the…