This, the first of our regional blogs, is authored by the technology and financial journalist Dominic Basulto. Dominic is a New York native, has been a senior editor at Corante since day one and has written for a number of online and offline media companies. Send tips or story ideas to: basulto@gmail.com.
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Here we'll report daily on the latest tech and business developments in New York City. Impossible we concede: comprehensive coverage of the city's every story. What we hope you'll find: tips, tidbits and perspectives you won't find elsewhere. As well as unique insights, original interviews and more that should be of interest to New York's vibrant community of technologists and those who track, invest in and report on them.
Just in time for Halloween: since Friday, the New York Daily News has been keeping constant tabs on some ghoulish goings-on at cemeteries and funeral homes around the city. Concerned that a team of "body snatchers" has been carving up dead bodies in order to sell body parts (i.e. bones, ligaments, skin, tissue) in the transplant market, the Brooklyn DA has ordered a probe into the activities of Fort Lee, NJ-based Biomedical Tissues Services and funeral homes around the city. As part of the probe, more than 30 bodies will be exhumed at a Brooklyn cemetery. It's all a bit sickening, but it appears that the head of Biomedical Tissue Services "personally performed the harvesting procedures on corpses."
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