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F.X. Matt Brewing Co. tastes the craft-beer renaissance
UTICA — The year was 1888. Berta Benz of Germany completed the first long-distance drive in a motor car built by her husband Karl, covering 40 miles. George Eastman registered the name Kodak and received a patent for a camera that used roll film. Benjamin Harrison became president of the U.S. even though he lost […]
Blue Ocean settles into new space in Washington Station
The financial planning and investment advisory firm also readies another acquisition SYRACUSE — Blue Ocean Strategic Capital, LLC has settled into a larger office in downtown Syracuse that provides the financial planning and investment advisory firm more room to implement its growth strategy. In mid-April, Blue Ocean moved to a 7,500-square-foot space on the second
Cost Cutters opens Binghamton location
BINGHAMTON — Cost Cutters, a family hair-salon franchise, on May 31 announced the opening of its Binghamton location at 10 Glenwood Ave. in the Price
New wine and cider business opens in Ithaca
ITHACA — Cellar d’Or Wine Boutique has started operations at 136 The Commons in Ithaca. The Downtown Ithaca Alliance and the city of Ithaca plan
StartFast Venture Accelerator announces teams for summer program
SYRACUSE — The StartFast Venture Accelerator has announced the five teams that will participate in its summer program beginning May 28. StartFast is a program
Support provider Tech Geekery gets a reboot
SYRACUSE — Tech Geekery, Inc., which provides technical-support assistance and training on computers and iPhones, is a startup that’s a reincarnation of a business one of its co-owners had launched back in 2009. With downtown operations based at the Syracuse Technology Garden, Tech Geekery is a mobile service that provides assistance that could include installing
Glyphr launches reality shopping
Glyph: A symbolic figure engraved or incised; a symbol that imparts information non-verbally. — American Heritage Dictionary SYRACUSE — “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” The quip is attributed to John Wanamaker, a department-store mogul considered to be the father of modern advertising
Oneonta firm to research ultracapacitors
ONEONTA — Most people don’t think about capacitors, unless they’re talking about the flux capacitor in the DeLorean time machine in the 1985 movie “Back to the Future,” but capacitors help make our modern world go around. Capacitors, which are energy-storage devices, are in just about everything from our cars to our cellphones, according to
Tops completes acquisition of four Big M stores
Tops Friendly Markets today announced it has completed the acquisition of four Big M supermarkets in Oneida, Oswego, and Jefferson counties. In March, Tops, a
Raymond Corp., Binghamton University students team up on electric go-kart project
GREENE — Students from Binghamton University’s engineering school and engineers from the Raymond Corp. recently teamed up on a project to convert a gas-powered go-kart
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