ANN ARBOR - Despite the fact that smartphones dominate computer sales, customer satisfaction with personal computers halted a three-year decline, with tablets reclaiming a slight edge over laptops. In the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index, PCs gained 1.3 percent to 78 on ACSI’s 100-point scale. Tablets improve by 4 percent to 78, while laptops rose
BINGHAM FARMS - For the past eight years, Fred and Paul Jacobs have attended CES in Las Vegas, exploring how technology and innovation are impacting the radio industry – today and in the future. Now Jacobs Media and the Consumer Technology Association have forged a partnership to launch a private tour of CES 2017 for
EAST LANSING – Tom Lyons has been named director of the Michigan State University Product Center. He is also a professor in the MSU Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics. “The Product Center has played an important role in the food, agriculture and natural resources economy in Michigan,” said Ron Hendrick, dean of the College
SEATTLE, WA – Michigan attracted $118.8 million in 18 deals in the state in the third quarter of 2016, up from $58 million in the second quarter and $48.8 million in the first, a new report says. The report, from the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook, a VC database, showed the third quarter in
ROYAL OAK - PriveCo Inc. is the world's most private company. The company started by Birmingham serial entrepreneur Tom Nardone operates 10 retail websites that offer you the world's most embarrassing products. Why? Because, given the choice, Nardone knows you would rather avoid the embarrassment of buying these items in person. His dedicated team brings
ROYAL OAK - Serial entrepreneur Tom Nardone appears on M2 TechCast to discuss his very-low cost bulletproof vests that he sells to law enforcement and security officers for just $299. Comparable bulletproof vests made by his competitors cost more than twice as much. Tom is a former military equipment Test Engineer with extensive experience testing
ANN ARBOR - Atomic Object has named Jonah Bailey as the software design and development consultancy’s new Managing Partner in Ann Arbor. Bailey is taking over the Managing Partner role from Darrell Hawley, who served on the Ann Arbor office’s first management and leadership team after Atomic acquired SRT Solutions in 2013. Atomic Object’s Ann
LANSING - Gov. Rick Snyder has proclaimed October as Michigan’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, to be capped by the North American Cyber Security Summit Oct. 17 at Cobo Center. “Cybersecurity is now as important as home security in our increasing online world,” said Gov. Rick Snyder. “You can’t avoid hearing stories of high-profile breaches and cyber
ROYAL OAK - Jan Getty, Founder and CEO of Resource Link, is interviewed by Rachele Downs, vice president of Entrepreneurial Strategies for Inforum to talk about her health-care start-up. Resource Link is engaged by health care providers to coordinate benefits for older adults, chronically ill, persons with disabilities to coordinate with caregivers in regulatory managed
ANN ARBOR - Online Tech has updated its Virtual Private Cloud to allow users to allocate their storage, RAM and CPU resources as their workloads demand simply by clicking a button on their OTC client portals. Instead of getting locked into a cloud server with a specific amount of RAM, disk space, and CPU resources,
