PLYMOUTH – Parul Bansal has been hired by the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center as a Market Intelligence Consultant. She joins MMTC’s Research Services practice area. “Our experienced Research Services team uses a combination of both qualitative and quantitative methods to provide invaluable insight for our clients’ strategic business decisions,” said Mike Coast, President of The
DETROIT – This fall, the Michigan Science Center is celebrating the award-winning exhibition, 1001 Inventions: Untold Stories from a Golden Age of Innovation. It opens Saturday, October 7. The exhibition will return to the United States after an absence of five years, making Detroit the fourth U.S. location to host this experience. Previous U.S. locations
AUBURN HILLS - Long-time Fiat Chrysler Automobiles manager Michael Keegan has been named Head of Communications at FCA, assuming direct responsibility for communications in North America. In this newly created position, Keegan will assume responsibility for corporate and product communications for the Group, in close coordination with the regions and business sector communications teams. Keegan will
DETROIT - An educational event to show small to medium-sized businesses how to protect their clients’ data from cyberattack will be held Sept. 12 at Bamboo Detroit by Auxiom. And the best part is SMBS-101 is free. “Small and medium-sized businesses are extremely vulnerable to coming under attack,” said Auxiom CEO Matt Loria. “Especially because
LANSING – David DeVries, the former U.S. Office of Personnel Management Chief Information Officer, is the state’s new Department of Technology, Management and Budget director and chief information officer. “David’s efforts to modernize aging IT infrastructure and improve cyber security at the federal level highlight his wealth of skills and experience that make him an excellent
PONTIAC - Oakland County on Sept. 13 will join a program founded by the Kauffman Foundation to provide free, weekly networking that is aimed at supporting startups on a grassroots level. The 1 Million Cups program is based on the notion that entrepreneurs network and discover solutions over a million cups of coffee. Beginning September
ANN ARBOR - A $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant will launch oVert, a new initiative to "teleport" museum specimens from their shelves to the Internet by CT scanning 20,000 vertebrates and making these data-rich, 3-D images available to researchers, educators, students and the public. The University of Michigan is one of 16 research institutions
NOVI - U.S. Army Gen. Gus Perna in this video interview discusses how contractors need to work with Material Command at the 2017 Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium and Advanced Planning Briefing for Industry. Gen. Perna also expressed frustration with the annual U.S. Budget process that has turned into a series of Continuing Resolutions
DETROIT - On Wednesday, Comcast Corporation announced that its Internet Essentials program, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive high-speed Internet adoption program, has connected more than 13,000 low-income households benefitting more than 52,000 Detroiters. Across Michigan, which ranks seventh among all states for Internet Essentials, 50,000 low-income households have been connected, benefitting nearly 200,000 Michiganders.
ANN ARBOR - In the last three years, there has been a 20 percent increase in the number of venture-capital-backed startups in Michigan, a new survey shows, with West Michigan companies making up a third of them. The seed, startup, early stage and growth companies represented equally with approximately a third in West Michigan at
