ANN ARBOR - Ultra Electronics AMI has secured a $870,000 contract to provide 30 of its solid oxide fuel cells to the U.S. Army's Rapid Equipping Force. Soldiers in the field will use the 300-watt fuel cells to recharge batteries and provide primary power for communications and information systems. The first delivery of five fuel
ANN ARBOR - Thirty alumni of the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest competition are among the 53 semi-finalists selected in the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition. This select group will pitch their business plans to investors in November for the chance to win more than $1 million in cash and in-kind awards. Of the 53 semi-finalists, 30
GRANDVILLE - Cloud storage platform Box.net has raised a whopping $50 million in new funding with participation from CRM giant Salesforce.com. Past investors also participated in the round, as well as new 'strategic partners,' who will be revealed soon. Box's past investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emergence Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Scale
DETROIT - NextEnergy today is one of twenty winners of the $37 million Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge, a Department of Commerce competition launched in May to promote the advancement of 20 high-growth, regional industry clusters. Coordinated by Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, Michigan?s portion of the award totals $2.1 million distributed across five agencies
BATH ? The International Avaya Users Group will host a no-nonsense discussion Oct. 19 on Unified Communications. All vendors will give you their definition of UC and focus on their ?cool? applications ? but no one vendor is best in breed at all elements of these powerful applications. UC can be an effective strategy that
GRANDVILLE - Yes, you can fit a cloud on a USB stick. Founded by several of the brains who conceived OpenStack ? the open source software platform for building Amazon-like ?infrastructure clouds? ? San Francisco startup Piston Cloud Computing has squeezed the platform onto a memory stick in an effort to streamline the creation of
LANSING ? The state announced Thursday its plans for solving the $145 million called for in the enacted fiscal year 2012 budget by requesting state departments develop contingency plans to address the needed savings should union negotiations fail. Reforms announced Thursday by the Michigan Department of Corrections provide $50 million in savings that will be
DEARBORN ? You can register online for the SecureWorld Expo at the Ford Convention Center in Dearborn Oct. 5-6 and get a $100 discount courtesy MITechNews.Com. Just use the code DTMITECH11 to qualify. The annual conference features keynotes from: Bill Muth, who will speak on, "Security in Moving to a Real-Time Business Model." Bill is
SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday unveiled the Kindle Fire tablet for $199, posing a big challenge to Apple's iPad. The tablet will go on sale Nov. 15 and people can start pre-ordering Wednesday. The new tablet, which works off a customized version of Google Inc.'s Android operating system, has a 7-inch screen and can
LANSING - Center for Business Innovation has partnered with Aerohive Networks to provide their partners with cloud-based managed wireless solutions. Cloud-based managed wireless solutions eliminate the chances for single-points of failure. It also eliminates the need for physical wireless controllers, making this a cost effective wireless solution for any size organization. ?Offering a cloud-based managed