Hair Innovations, specializing in color and texturizing, has opened at Westport’s 1779 Post Road East n the Westfair Shopping Center, across from Stop and Shop in space previously occupied by PhotoZip. Co-owners Marlene Cox (l) and Chung Huynh-Storch have been longtime friends beginning when Huynh-Storch was a Fairfield High School student in the 1990s. Huynh-Storch worked as a financial analyst until 10 months ago when she gave birth to twin boys with husband Matt. Cox has been a hair stylist in the Westport area for about 30 years. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Greenfield Cleaners will open a 700-square foot shop in Westport’s Bridge Square by the fall. East Norwalk resident and owner John Jang said the Westport store in part of space previously occupied by Bridge Market will be his fifth location in Fairfield County. The business has shops in Wilton, Fairfield. Darien and Greenwich. Jang said the Bridge Square services will include a full drop off, free pick-up and delivery, and a tailor will be on site every day. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

The state of Connecticut said today it has added another $150,000 to its investment in a Westport high-tech firm which makes mobile phone applications for the urban leisure and travel guide industry.

Connecticut Innovations Inc., the state’s quasi-public technology investment and innovation arm, said its latest investment in Interactive Mobile @dversing LLC follows its 2010 stake of $280,000 in the company known as iM@ (pronounced “I’m at”) for short. CI also has a seat on board.

iM@, with headquarters at 191 Post Road West, so far has targeted its mobile apps for three major tourist destinations—New York City, Las Vegas and Orlando, Fla. – with 10 more scheduled to debut later this year, said CEO Kerry J. Cannon Jr.

“The market is embracing mobile at an incredible rate,” he said in a news release. “Our tight focus in the travel and tourism sector, coupled with an efficient partner-leveraged user acquisition strategy is resonating in a big way.”

The summer sidewalk sale sponsored by the Westport Downtown Merchants Association got under way today on Main Street and adjoining streets. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Saturday’s grand opening of Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club in Westport’s Playhouse Square has been postponed until Monday because of a break-in by smash and grab thief or thieves on Wednesday night. Jarrod Manfro, co-owner and partner in the business, said the culprits opened the cash register with a key on the counter next to the register, but there was no money inside. He said the front door appeared to have been smashed by a hammer. The Ridgefield resident also owns Kennedy’s in Ridgefield, Darien, Stamford and Greenwich. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Bridgewater Associates, the Westport-based $100 billion hedge fund with headquarters at 1 Glendinning Place, is expanding its operations to Wilton, according to the Fairfield County Business Journal.

A call and subsequent email today to Bridgewater headquarters to confirm the reported expansion to the Wilton Woods corporate campus at 20 Westport Road went unanswered.

The newspaper said that Bridgewater, which employs about 1,200, has leased the third floor of the Wilton campus and is “said to be finalizing a lease to occupy much of the remaining two floors of the 340,000-square-foot building.” The Wilton location is just four-and-a-half miles from the company’s Westport headquarters.

The building is one of two at Wilton Woods, along with 10 Westport Road where Deloitte is a major tenant.