Recently added articles from The Business Journal - Central New York:
Cornell grad student develops new ultrasound device
Feb 06, 2009; ... ITHACA--Ultrasound waves are pretty amazing, says George Lewis, a doctoral student at Cornell University. They can do all sorts of things. In medicine, ultrasound waves are used for imaging--they can help doctors see a baby or a heart problem. At higher energy levels, they can do ...
Syracuse iSchool creates new scholarly journal
Feb 06, 2009; ... SYRACUSE--Syracuse University's School of Information Studies (iSchool) is developing a new scholarly journal, called Advances in Research on Information and Technology (ARIT). Conceived by professors Paul Gandel and Jeff Stanton, the journal seeks to inform professionals who manage ...
Tech Garden announces new tenant status
Feb 06, 2009; ... SYRACUSE--The Syracuse Technology Garden recently added a new class of tenants after three companies met some of the facility's graduation criteria. The Tech Garden, however, wasn't quite ready to see them leave. Paul Brooks, vice president for entrepreneurship programs at the business ...
Alliance profit slips in Q4, but sets record for full year
Feb 06, 2009; ... SYRACUSE--Alliance Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: ALNC) earned $2.3 million in the fourth quarter, down 4.2 percent from $2.4 million a year ago. Earnings per share in the period totaled 51 cents, unchanged from a year ago. Analysts had expected earnings of 55 cents a share, according to Yahoo ...
Speaker: IT security needs clarity
Feb 06, 2009; ... SYRACUSE--You're not as protected as you think you are and management needs to set the tone for a company's IT security policies. That was security expert Ken Michael's message to an audience of about 160 businesspeople at the 2009 "Book of Lists" Preview Breakfast at the Genesee Grande ...
First Niagara cautious, optimistic on 2009
Feb 06, 2009; ... Bank leaders with major business Upstate often point out that the region is somewhat insulated--in good times and bad--from some of the nation's broader economic swings. That insulation has been especially helpful lately, but officials of at least one bank say the recession is beginning ...
Varshney seeks to expand outreach
Feb 06, 2009; ... SYRACUSE--The Center for Advanced Systems and Engineering (CASE) at Syracuse University (SU) has a new director, who says he would like to boost the center's work with area businesses. Pramod Varshney, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at SU, assumed the post ...
Anaren's sales boosted by last year's acquisitions
Feb 06, 2009; ... DeWITT--Anaren, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANEN) began during its most recent quarter to see the sales benefits of its two acquisitions last year. Net sales for the company's fiscal second quarter, which ended Dec. 31, rose 28 percent from a year earlier to $41.4 million. The company acquired ...
Web work is the key to Data Key expansion
Feb 06, 2009; ... DeWITT--Data Key Communications, Inc., a locally based contract publisher of journals for national and international trade associations, is planning a major expansion of its business. And Internet-based products are a key part of the effort. In addition to trade journals, the company ...
Northland division starts marketing partnership
Feb 06, 2009; ... UTICA--The software division of Northland Communications launched a partnership in late 2008 that will help spread the company's software product throughout the country. Northland Software began in 1998 and grew out of the software that its parent company developed to handle billing and ...
Tompkins Financial profit dips
Feb 06, 2009; ... ITHACA--Profit at Tompkins Financial Corp. fell in the fourth quarter, thanks in part to the effects of the difficult economy. The company earned $7.3 million, down 2 percent from a year earlier. Earnings per share in the period totaled 74 cents, down from 77 cents in the fourth quarter ...
Check 21 helps clear way for RP Solutions
Feb 06, 2009; ... ITHACA--RP Solutions, Inc.'s growth spurt began in earnest in the late 1990s, spurred by two critical events. The first took place late that decade when a lot of businesses were driven to upgrade computers and telecommunications systems for the Y2K problem. Most of RP Solutions' customers had a ...
Bombard dealership settles with AG over sales promotions
Feb 06, 2009; ... SKANEATELES--Bombard Car Companies, Inc. of Skaneateles has agreed to pay $20,000 in restitution, costs, and penalties following an investigation into two sales promotions, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Jan. 29. The car dealership, at 1351 Route 20 in Skaneateles, ...
SBA: Smalla business will need to lead recovery
Feb 06, 2009; ... The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) believes the newly updated New York Small Business profile contains a message: New York's economic recovery will depend on small business. New York is home to 440,510 small businesses that employ 52 percent of the state's work force, according ...
Macy's, Bon-Ton cutting jobs
Feb 06, 2009; ... Two well-known clothing retailers with locations in Central New York are cutting jobs, but in the case of one of the companies, it's not known what impact the reductions will have on the region's stores. Citing current economic conditions and lower sales expectations in 2009, Cincinnati, ...
Rheonix closes on IBI acquisition
Feb 06, 2009; ... ITHACA--Rheonix, Inc., an Ithaca-based microfluidics company, recently closed on the acquisition of a Buffalo-area business working on biosensor technologies. Rheonix acquired Innovative Biotechnologies International, Inc. (IBI) of Grand Island on Dec. 31. The companies did not disclose ...
Har-Rob Fire Apparatus settles into new home
Jan 30, 2009; ... DeWITT - After more than 25 years of operation at 519 Liberty St. in Syracuse, Har-Rob Fire Apparatus Service & Sales, Inc. needed a larger space. The Liberty Street location was no longer meeting the company's needs, says Michael Wheeler, Har-Rob vice president and ...
Profit inches higher at Community Bank in fourth quarter
Jan 30, 2009; ... DeWITT - Profit at Community Bank System, Inc. (NYSE: CBU) edged higher during the fourth quarter of 2008 with the help of loan growth and good asset quality, bank leaders said during a Jan. 23 conference call on the company's earnings. Community Bank earned $12 million in the fourth ...
Survey: Buyer's market will continue in business M&A
Jan 30, 2009; ... A recent national survey of those on the frontline of business sales and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) finds respondents expecting the continuation of difficult economic- times and a buyer's market for business deals in 2009. The majority of the members responding to the ...
Dairy Council, princess, reign over agriculture
Jan 30, 2009; ... SYRACUSE - Milk production in New York declined slightly in 2008, down to 12.1 billion pounds, but the dairy industry still remains the state's number one agricultural product. That's according to the American Dairy Association and Dairy Council (ADADC). The ADADC represents more than ...