mikebrennan

About Mike Brennan

Founder of Michigan News Network, and serves as CEO, as well as Editor & Publisher of MITECHNEWS.COM. Brennan has worked since 1980 as a technology writer at newspapers in New York, NY, San Jose, CA., Seattle, WA., Memphis, TN., Detroit, MI., and London, England. He co-founded and served as managing editor of Pacific Rim News Service (SEATTLE), which developed a network of more than 100 freelance journalists in 17 Asia-Pacific countries.

Demand For Legal Cannabis In US Slowed In March: AndCan Index

EAST LANSING - Demand for legal cannabis products in the United States slowed in March, according to Anderson Economic Group’s monthly AndCan Index. While the legal cannabis market showed steady growth through most of 2019 and experienced a strong start in 2020, March numbers remained steady. AEG experts attribute the lack of growth to factors related to

By |2020-06-25T18:58:34-04:00June 25th, 2020|Marijuana Business, News|

iHemp Hour June 25: Recycled Plastic, Hemp-Infused Building Blocks

LANSING - Louis Hard and Adam Dietrich join iHemp Hour June 25 at noon to tell the Michigan hemp community about their ingenious plastic recycled hemp-infused building blocks. ReBlocks is a Denver, CO based building block company that has been in the United States for a year.  Prior to that, these blocks were used in

By |2020-06-25T07:57:36-04:00June 25th, 2020|Hemp, Marijuana Business, News|

CannaBIZ Connection, Sensi Media Group Partner to Launch Sensi Connects B2B Platform

GRAND HAVEN - CannaBIZ Connection has partnered with Sensi Magazine Group LLC to launch SensiConnects.Com, an online community where business owners can connect and build relationships service providers in the cannabis industry across the United States, starting with Michigan, Florida and Pennsylvania. CannaBIZ Connection was founded in January 2018 and in 2019 began hosting weekly

By |2020-06-24T16:55:53-04:00June 24th, 2020|Featured, Marijuana Business, News|

US Signal Multi-Tenant, Private Cloud Services

GRAND RAPIDS - Amana Regnerus, an Executive VP at US Signal, talks about the Grand Rapids-based company's new multi-tenant and private cloud services in US Signal’s Grand Rapids, Southfield and Detroit Metro, Michigan data centers. The enhanced services support large-scale adoption of cloud-first, hybrid and off-premise data center strategies--which are particularly important following the COVID-19

By |2020-06-23T15:43:00-04:00June 23rd, 2020|mitechtv, New Products / Contracts|

Lawrence Technological University To Offer In-Person Fall Classes

ANN ARBOR - Lisa Kujawa, an associate provost at LTU, announces that the private STEAM college in Southfield, MI., plans to offer in-person fall classes, after spending the past few months offering classes over the Internet. Want to build a bridge? Design a car? Reimagine a green space? Create a business? Change the world? Our

By |2020-06-23T15:25:52-04:00June 23rd, 2020|mitechtv, STEM|

Canada’s 3DQue Systems Uses Software To Create Moldless Products

ANN ARBOR - Stephanie Sharp, CEO of 3DQue Systems, pivoted from 3D printing auto products to Personal Protection Equipment for Canadian first responders and healthcare workers. Her company's wrinkle is they use software to craft these products in large quantities, rather than molds. 3DQue Systems Inc., based in Vancouver, Canada, produces automated digital manufacturing systems

By |2020-06-23T15:44:32-04:00June 23rd, 2020|Coronavirus, mitechtv, Science|

COVID-19 Cyber Hacks – How To Avoid Them

ANN ARBOR - Cybersecurity expert Richard Stiennon - author of There Will Be Cyberwar - provides warnings about how not to get scammed by a criminal or hacked website offering to provide COVID-19 tips, aid, or financial resources. https://youtu.be/FAHQhfrwDCQ?list=PL6GUBIAze2tZWi0oIe3paoFI0uvu5asXf Chief Research Analyst IT-Harvest Nov 2017 – Present2 years 8 months IT-Harvest is an industry analyst firm

By |2020-06-23T15:03:15-04:00June 23rd, 2020|Cyber Defense, mitechtv|

Walk-Through Testing For COVID-19, Predicting Virus Spread After Public Gatherings

ANN ARBOR - On MITech TV June 22, Larry Shattuck and Ari Reuben from Soter Technology will announce a new walk-through technology device, like an airport scanner, that will measure four vital signs to determine within 5 seconds if someone has COVID-19. They will be joined by Lt. Gen. PK Carlton, the former Surgeon General,

By |2024-04-04T14:18:39-04:00June 22nd, 2020|M2 TechCast, Podcasts, Uncategorized|

Chinese AI Company To Launch U.S. Operations In Meridian Twp.

LANSING—Officials at the Lansing Economic Area Partnership announced that Continental Oceans Technology Corp., a Chinese company, will open its United States operations in Meridian Township outside Lansing. COTC is building a global trade, logistics and travel advisory platform to improve the travel experiences of users through technology. An emphasis will be placed on designing for

By |2020-06-21T18:36:06-04:00June 21st, 2020|News|

Guardhat Adds Software For COVID-19 Temperature Monitoring, Contact Tracing

DETROIT—Officials at the Detroit-based workplace safety equipment developer Guardhat announced a partnership with the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based facial recognition security software firm Oloid. Guardhat officials said the partnership will empower organizations to operate under the recommendations of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for social distancing and elevated body temperature scanning by integrating a

By |2020-06-21T18:32:05-04:00June 21st, 2020|Coronavirus, Science|