Residents of Clarkstown and Greenburgh can congratulate themselves on choosing one of the nicest towns in the country for their home. Both ranked in the top 100 in Money magazine’s list of “America’s Best Small Cities.” Clarkstown was No. 71 and Greenburgh came in at No. 80.

The magazine cited Clarkstown’s proximity to New York City [...]

EpiCept Corp., a pharmaceutical company at The Landmark in Eastview, said it is partnering with GNI Ltd. to develop a new drug to treat late-stage viral infection-induced hepatitis.

GNI is a biopharmaceutical company with headquarters in Japan and major operations in China. The companies will develop the drug in Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Shanghai Genomics, [...]

SoBe Life Water’s Super Bowl ad featuring supermodel Naomi Campbell dancing to the song “Thriller” became an Internet sensation and was viewed online more than 5 million times in the two weeks after the big game. It was the most watched Super Bowl ad on YouTube. The Purchase-based beverage maker is bringing its trademark lizards [...]

Billionaire Warren Buffett is scheduled to visit Mount Vernon tomorrow, dropping in on the former Michael Anthony Jewelers that, through a chain of acquisitions in recent years, is now owned by Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Buffett will do a ribbon-cutting with Mayor Clinton D. Young at the business, now called Richline Group, at South MacQuesten Parkway, [...]

Cargo carrier Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc. of Purchase said that its subsidiary, Atlas Air Inc., has been awarded a five-year contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide flight training for the Air Force pilots and flight engineers who fly the E-4B National Airborne Operations Center, a Boeing 747-200 aircraft. The training will take [...]

How health care providers deliver care is going to change in the future – by a lot. That’s the message from Armonk-based IBM Corp. in the latest study from its “Healthcare 2015” initiative.

Community hospitals will lose patients to networks of clinics, and more consumers will become medical tourists as they turn to overseas physicians as [...]

Greenwald Doherty LLP, a law firm specializing in labor and employment law, has moved its Rockland County office to 30 Ramland Road in Orangeburg. For more information, visit the company’s Web site, www.workplaceattorneys.com.

A Hampton Inn & Suites is coming to a 2-acre site at 160 Corporate Blvd. in Yonkers. FSG Yonkers Hotels LLC, a joint venture of RD Management LLC in Manhattan and S&S Hotels in Manchester, N.H., purchased the property from Robert Martin Co. LLC. The hotel will have 110 hotel rooms and 40 suites and [...]

Local businesspeople who want to hear success tips from professionals can attend a free seminar on June 24 at Commerce Bank in Mount Kisco. A panel of business leaders from a variety of fields will share insights and strategies during the two-hour session, which begins at 5:30 p.m. Among the panelists will be Stacey Cohen, [...]

Tarrytown-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. has been named among the top 30 “Best Places to Work” in industry by The Scientist Magazine. Regeneron was ranked 18th, and was cited for its management, research environment and integrity. Ross Grossman, vice president of human resources at Regeneron, said the honor comes as the company is the midst of [...]

The board of directors of Universal American Corp. of Rye Brook has approved the repurchase of up to an additional $50 million of the company’s stock. As of Friday, Universal American has bought back about 4 million shares, at an average price of $11.29 per share, totaling $45.5 million under the $50 million share repurchase [...]

Yonkers-based Consumer Reports is warning consumers stressed by medical bills not to get caught up in a new credit crisis that’s unfolding.
In a report in the magazine’s July issue, Consumer Reports explains how trusted names in the credit business, including GE Money, Citigroup, and Chase, are pushing high-interest loans for people who need to pay [...]

When you think of IBM, you think of computers, not rice bowls. But for the billions of people around the world who rely on rice as a staple food, a new initiative by Big Blue could mean heartier meals.

A worldwide network of computers created by IBM will be tackling the looming rice shortage by helping [...]

Two businesses in the Lower Hudson Valley have placed the low bids on construction work at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, the state Office of General Services said. Southeast Plumbing Corp. of Brewster was the apparent low bidder, out of seven companies, with a bid of $262,000 to replace a domestic water system in [...]

SmartWatt Energy Services, a Clifton Park, N.Y.-based company that helps businesses reduce their energy consumption and expenses, has opened its third office on Mamaroneck Avenue in Harrison. Pete DeMartis of Somers is the general manager. The company has a third office in Rochester, N.Y. For more information on the company, visit www.smartwattinc.com.

White Plains-based ConEdison Solutions has acquired Custom Energy Services LLC of Overland Park, Kan. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal is part of a ongoing corporate expansion strategy as ConEdison Solutions seeks to become a nationwide leader in energy services and energy commodity marketplaces. Custom Energy Services will give the firm a Kansas office [...]

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. said that a new Four Points by Sheraton has opened in Tempe, Ariz. Four Points by Sheraton is one of the White Plains hotel giant’s brands, which also include St. Regis, Westin, W and Le Meridien. The new hotel, which is owned and operated by Twenty4Seven Hotels Corp. has [...]

Centro Properties Group has sold The Mall at Cross County in Yonkers to a holding of Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. in Manhattan for $80 million.

The Mall at Cross County, at 750 Central Park Ave., has 20 stores and 264,000 square feet. It is separate from, and unrelated to, the much larger Cross County Shopping Center nearby.

Centro, [...]

Two women entrepreneuers, a nonprofit chief executive, a family business and a giant energy company are the winners of the Business Council of Westchester’s 2008 Business Hall of Fame awards.

The small business honoree is Co-Communications, a Mount Kisco-based public relations and marketing company owned by Stacey Cohen. The 10-year-old company serves clients primarily in the [...]

USA Bank of Port Chester lost $4.3 million, or 75 cents a share, for the year ended Dec. 31. A year earlier, the company lost $4.5 million, or $1.11 a share. Assets at Dec. 31 were $169.9 million. USA Bank opened in December 2005 and has a branch in Port Chester at 601 N. Main [...]