DETROIT - Editor Mike Brennan talks about the new and improved MITechNews.Com website, NextEnergy awards, Challenge Detroit recruits latest class of entrepreneurs, and much more. http://www.internetadvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/IA-1597-MiTechNews-5-2-15.mp3
DETROIT - Elon Musk announced a stunning new battery technology that could reshape electrical use around the world, even in countries where there is no power grid. Dave Hurst is Director of Market Analysis at NextEnergy, leading Next Energy's Energy Sector and Program teams in the understanding and development of various market segment intelligence. Hurst
NOVI - The title of Spencer Sator's opening presentation at the 2015 Energy Conference and Exhibition was "Five Emerging Technologies You Don't Want To Miss." Well, it was really more like seven or eight, but who's counting? Sator, senior manager of emerging technology at Boulder, Colo.-based E Source - which Sator described as "like Consumer
TROY - The Troy-based engineering technology provider Altair said Thursday that its product development group, Altair Product Design, has reached a new milestone having expanded to more than 800 engineering and design staff across the world. The group has doubled its employee count during the last 10years. Altair also announced Garching, Germany based FluiDyna GmbH,
PLYMOUTH - Southeast Michigan has landed two of the 32 national winners of Comcast Business' Innovations for Entrepreneurs contest. Both received $10,000 and both are in the competition - through a public vote - to receive an additional $20,000 in cash. Regional winners are Fresh Co Home Inc. of Bloomfield and Lawrence Hunt of Royal
LANSING - While it is always tough for teens to find summer work, a forecast released Wednesday by the Department of Technology, Management and Budget said 2015 should be the best summer season in a decade for young people to find jobs. The department said it anticipates a teen unemployment rate of 17.2 percent during
LANSING - Re-evaluation of certain tax credits, most notably housing credits, as well as a review of some $20 billion in restricted revenue, are among the key pieces of House Speaker Kevin Cotter's plan for road funding after voters on Tuesday soundly rejected a ballot proposal aimed at raising new revenue for roads. "We have
GRAND RAPIDS - If you are a CTO, CIO, CISO or have a similar title, Comcast Business would like you to enter a raffle to win free tickets to a luxury suite to hear former state CISO Dan Lohrmann tell you tales of cybersecurity threats posed by the Internet of Things. Comcast Business is hosting
LANSING - Concentrated animal feeding operations were already limited in when and where they could spread manure, but a new permit released Monday would apply those limits to operations receiving that manure as well. CAFOs are required under federal rule to obtain a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit that regulates the waste allowed to
SOUTHFIELD - ardentCause has been selected to provide data management services to the Greater Detroit Area Health Council in its development of the Macomb County Partners in Prevention and Care Chronic Disease Coordinating Network project. The CDCN is a four year community-wide partnership focused on improving health outcomes for a defined Macomb County population, by