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AkknaTek, a German-based startup company, offers innovative solutions for ophthalmology, specializing in cataract surgery. AkknaTek is one of 10 finalist companies with optics imaging, and photonics-enabled technologies in the Luminate NY accelerator program. The $25 million program — which is ...

Jeffrey Pier has been named Child Care Council Inc.’s new executive director and will start his new role on June 26.  Pier has been serving as executive director of The Healing Connection, an eating-disorder treatment program for adolescents and adults. He ...

Projected shortfalls in sales tax revenue aren’t as dire as Monroe County Executive Adam Bello initially feared, but measures are underway to find nearly $47.6 million in cost savings and thus avoid a property tax increase in 2021. A hiring ...

Elevate Rochester is the new name for what had been known as the Rochester Area Business Ethics Foundation (RABEF) since the organization’s founding in 2003. The new name and logo represent both a statement of the organization’s mission and a ...

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An already limited inventory of homes for sale in Monroe County grew even smaller in April because of the coronavirus pandemic, but the median sales price did climb. New listings plunged 53.3 percent year-over-year from 1,142 to 533, closed sales ...

Because Rochester City Hall is closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Rochester City Clerk’s office on Friday announced that marriage license applications are now available online. Information is available at https://www.cityofrochester.gov/marriagelicense/. After all necessary information has been submitted, documents ...

Sevin Yeltekin will leave her position as senior associate dean of education at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University to become dean of the Simon Business School. Yeltekin, the Rohet Tolani Distinguished Professor of Economics at Carnegie ...

Imagine working for nearly seven decades on a social cause, never to see it come to fruition. That was suffragist Susan B. Anthony’s fate. Women were not granted the right to vote in the United States until 1920, some 14 ...

Heritage Christian Services Inc. has rebranded and expanded its Center for Human Services Education division to include a broader scope and audience in the community. Eleversity, as the division is now known, will continue CHSE’s traditional trainings it provided to ...

Recipe 21, a division of LiDestri Foods Inc., on Thursday rolled out its hand sanitizer line for the general public in direct response to COVID-19 relief efforts and the nationwide supply shortage. LiDestri previously had adjusted its spirits production at ...

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Having already acted to ward off a potential catastrophic collapse of the global economy, the Federal Reserve is now focused on ensuring a rebound of the U.S. economy once the coronavirus pandemic subsides. The vast array of aid packages already ...

While many businesses struggle through the COVID-19 pandemic, L3Harris Technologies Inc. has experienced a number of recent wins, including new contracts, investments and support of small business suppliers. The manufacturer, which has its Communications Systems and Space and Airborne Systems ...

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Unshackle Upstate, the non-partisan, pro-taxpayer coalition that advocates for Upstate New York job creators and taxpayers, last week submitted testimony to the New York State Joint Legislative hearing on COVID-19’s impact on small businesses proposing a number of immediate actions ...

Whenever the Rochester Red Wings can finally play baseball again, there’s a chance their ball park will be called something other than Frontier Field. Monroe County’s downtown stadium has had just one name —Frontier Field — since the gates swung open in ...

Truth Collective has always believed it’s important to be a part of the greater good. While very much a for-profit marketing agency, some of Truth Collective’s best work has been in collaboration with nonprofits. There was the Slaying Giants campaign ...