IBM Corp. of Armonk and Iron Mountain Inc. of Boston said yesterday they will design a joint solution for businesses that need to manage both paper and electronic records. The unified product will combine Iron Mountain’s Accutrac software for managing physical records, and IBM’s FileNet Records Manager. The rise of compliance and regulation requirements is [...]

Stewart EFI will close its longstanding manufacturing operation in Yonkers by year’s end, but not from lack of interest by the city’s Industrial Development Agency.
The business, known in Yonkers for decades as Stewart Stamping, produces precision metal parts for a variety of industries. It was a division of Insilco when it was stuck in bankruptcy [...]

The new home of Fordham University’s adult education program, 400 Westchester Ave. in West Harrison, is undergoing an $8 million renovation, the building’s owners said.
GHP Office Realty and Benerofe Properties expect to complete work on the 63,000-square-foot building by the time classes begin in September, said Andrew Greenspan, a GHP partner.
The property originally was built [...]

Emerging Health Information Technology of Yonkers said yesterday it has been awarded a contract to provide Medicaid eligibility verification, service authorization, claims scrubbing and validation, and payment analysis to Jewish Home Lifecare.
Terms of the contract were not disclosed. Emerging Health is a subsidiary of Montefiore Medical Center.

Aureon Laboratories Inc. of Yonkers said it has introduced Prostate Px®+, a commercial test to predict prostate cancer progression and disease recurrence.
The test will forecast disease progression after treatment, and will detect high-risk patients that appear as low risk and undetectable by other methods, said Dr. Ricardo Mesa-Tejada, vice president of pathology and medical director [...]

Six women-owned businesses in Westchester County received a total of $11,000 in grants through an entrepreneurship program sponsored by the Women’s Enterprise Development Center Inc. of White Plains and the Women & Co.® Microenterprise Boost program.
WEDC provides business training and support services to entrepreneurs in the Lower Hudson Valley. The six business owners also will [...]

New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson, New York Sports Clubs executives, and members of the New Rochelle Chamber of Commerce board will be on hand Tuesday, May 20 at 2:30 p.m. for the grand opening of New York Sports Clubs’ facility at 175 Huguenot St.

Via Quadronno has opened its newest restaurant at 199 Main St., at Renaissance Square in downtown White Plains. The 3,000-square-foot restaurant seats 80 patrons and can accommodate about 60 in warmer weather outdoors. Reservations can be made online at www.opentable.com. The head chef is Massimiliano Convertini.

The Mount Vernon Design District, an area of the city’s downtown so-dubbed by a group of home improvement businesses, is holding special programs this week to draw tradespeople and consumers.
The goal is to draw the gas-conscious away from trips to Manhattan design centers and get them to shop closer to home, said Anne-Marie Peterson at [...]

The Rockland Industrial Development Agency has collected $145,000 in tax incentives and related fees from a California mortgage company that opened an office in Orangeburg, which it later closed, the IDA’s top officer said.

WMC Mortgage Inc. of Burbank refunded $97,000 in sales tax breaks to the IDA, plus 18 percent interest and attorneys’ fees, said [...]

Volatility in the financial markets will spill over into the government’s own budget plans this year, New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said yesterday at a breakfast sponsored by The Business Council of Westchester.

Twenty percent of state revenues come from Wall Street, he told the audience at Abigail Kirsch at Tappan Hill in Tarrytown. But [...]

Strata Health Club, a 7,400-square-foot facility, has opened at 4 Gannett Drive in Harrison. The club offers corporate, team and school fitness programs, and self-defense classes.

Shawn Miles, head of the global public policy and regulatory strategy group of MasterCard Worldwide in Purchase, has joined the board of directors of The Business Council of Westchester. Miles has been with MasterCard for more than 20 years. He also serves on the Hudson Valley Board of Directors for Junior Achievement and leads JA [...]

Mark Stenberg, the newest member of the board of directors of Nutrition 21 Inc. of Purchase, has a three-year employment agreement as senior vice president and holds a 5 percent secured note on the company for $1.25 million, Nutrition 21 said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Stenberg was chief executive officer and [...]

Property assessment challenges that are filed with the Westchester County Supreme Court now can be commenced electronically through the Unified Court System’s e-filing program, the County Clerk’s office said yesterday.
Documents can be filed online any time, anywhere. Court fees can be paid by credit card online. No additional fees are charged in connection with e-filed [...]

Presidential Realty Corp. of White Plains said it dropped Deloitte & Touche LLP as its accounting firm on April 2 and hired Holtz Rubenstein Reminick LLC for financial and other considerations.
Deloitte & Touche had no adverse opinions on the company’s finances over the last two years. It did have one observation on the fiscal 2007, [...]

The senior vice president of manufacturing operations at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Eastview is on unpaid leave of absence and will retire on Oct. 1, the company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Dr. Randall Rupp had been with the company for 16 years. During his unpaid leave, he will be eligible [...]

Acorda Therapeutics Inc. of Hawthorne said a Danish drug company will manufacture a key molecule in a substance that Acorda is using in toxicology studies and early phase clinical trials.
Acorda said the company, CMC ICOS Biologics of Copenhagen, will produce the molecule, GGF2, for Acorda’s neuregulin program. Terms of the deal were not announced. Neuregulins [...]

EpiCept Corp. of Eastview said yesterday that its listing on the Nasdaq market is endangered. The drug researcher said it is out of compliance with Nasdaq rules that require a market cap of $35 million for 10 consecutive trading days. EpiCept said it is working to regain compliance by a May 5 deadline.

Shareholders at the annual meeting of Morgan Stanley in Purchase yesterday rejected a proposal that called for a non-binding ratification vote by stockholders on executive pay.

About 63.2 percent of the shares represented and voting at the meeting voted against the proposal, or abstained, Morgan Stanley said. It was the second year in a row that [...]