DETROIT - The Southeast Michigan Region of the Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center Detroit service center has a new home, the former Barden Building across from Comerica Park. Formerly housed in TechTown, the Eastern Michigan University-operated MI-SBTDC service location will counsel clients out of the historic, 1908 building, now owned by Grand Valley
ANN ARBOR - Rubicon Genomics has partnered with Diagenode SA to integrate Rubicon's ThruPLEX technology into Diagenode's epigenetics platforms to increase the efficiency and quality of DNA sample preparation for chromatin immunoprecipitation applications. The new agreement allows Diagenode to incorporate the Rubicon ThruPLEX-FD technology into its new MicroPLEX Library Preparation Kit for ChIP-seq studies requiring
ANN ARBOR - Augment Ventures recently made its second investment, in leading analytics software company LLamasoft. Terms were not disclosed. LLamasoft will use the investment to further development of its supply chain solutions software. ?LLamasoft is an attractive investment because its leading analytics software has a huge potential to unlock business intelligence and optimization in
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor SPARK recently added two to its team, Joseph Licavoli and Jake Elbers. Licavoli fills a new position as manager of the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund. Elbers is manager of the SPARK East business incubator. Current Ann Arbor SPARK team member Valerie Christofferson was promoted to senior business development manager. ?Joe
DETROIT - An internal ePrize company that developed a gamification application for use with Salesforce.Com received a $1 million investment from Detroit Venture Partners and will be nurtured at the downtown Detroit incubator. LevelEleven?s flagship product is the sales gamification app, Contest Builder. First used at ePrize to motivate its own sales team, Contest Builder
GRAND RAPIDS ? Learn from top educators how they are transforming the education culture and create a new generation of student entrepreneurs who work, think and learn differently to prepare for the jobs of the future at the aimWest Nov. 14 meeting at the Eberhard Center. 21st century learning has introduced innovation and entrepreneurship into
DEARBORN- The ISSA November chapter meeting looks at how software keeps credit card data safe in the mobile cloud. The discussion looks at a point of sale system developed for the restaurant industry. Today we put that same credit card on a mobile device and store the data on the cloud. Now who has your
SAM FRANCISCO - The hacktivist group Anonymous apparently is perturbed by the financial situation at Zynga. A posting on the AnonNews site this morning posits that layoffs at Zynga will help to bring about the "end of the US game market as we know it" as jobs get shipped overseas, a plan that the AnonNews
LANSING - At first glance, the race for Michigan's Supreme Court seems to be the bargain basement of the luxurious spending on campaigns in the state this year, but the Michigan Campaign Finance Network said Monday the campaign may be one of the most expensive and secret in the nation. While the six major candidates
MOSCOW - The Russian Ministry of Defense appears to be openly recruiting cyber experts for both defensive and offensive roles. It is yet unclear whether this indicates resolution of a cyber turf battle among Russian government agencies, particularly between the MoD and the Federal Security Service, the FSB. On October 7, the Russian MoD announced