BIRMINGHAM - Seven technology-oriented women received scholarships or laptop computers at the Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation’ Scholarship Recognition event. The MCWT Foundation has awarded over $928,000 to further the educational pursuits of 124 students throughout the past 11 years. “Retention of women in tech majors in college is below 10 percent;
ROYAL OAK - M2 Techcast on June 6 will be hosting Automation Alley COO Tom Kelly with an update on the regional tech networking groups, Attorney Keith Schonberger, of Young Basile, provides an intellectual property update, NextEnergy explains more about its Smart Cities digital design competition. M2 Techcast is taking a break on Memorial Day
NOVI - Goggle announced Wednesday that is Self-Driving Car Project will open a 53,000 square foot development center in Novi, following earlier announcements by Uber it would work with Toyota and General Motors with Lyft. The rush towards self-driving vehicles is accelerating. John Krafcik, CEO of the project, announced the move in a Google+ posting.
VASTERAS, Sweden - The internationally oriented Robotdalen Innovation Award is directed at entrepreneurs, innovators, start-ups as well as graduate and postgraduate students from all over the world who have ideas, concepts or solutions with commercial potential and breakthrough technology, addressing the following fields of robotics and automation: • Industrial robotics and automation – especially
DETROIT - Forbes magazine came out with its annual richest person list and Dan Gilbert was tops in Michigan (and 31st nationwide) with an estimated worth of $5.1 billion. Gilbert's Quicken Loans, the nation's largest online mortgage lender, is now hawking Rocket Mortgages, a new Web and smartphone app to speed the approval process. Critics
FARMINGTON HILLS - Great Lakes Angels is hosting a workshop on June 14 to teach entrepreneurs, investors and consultants how to do valuation of early stage companies, part of the Angel Resource Institute education program on angel investing. This is probably the most important question an investor and entrepreneur will ask and answer before executing
FERNDALE - Gary McGraw, the CTO of Cigital, joins two other cyber security experts, Dan Lohrmann of Security Mentor and Richard Stiennon of IT Harvest, to talk how Washington DC has become transfixed with building better cyber weapons, but not better cyber defenses. Cyber threats cost Americans billions of dollars each year and put U.S.
FERNDALE - Matthew Felan President & CEO of the Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance, talk about economic development in the Saginaw-Bay City region. The prosperity zone actually includes eight counties. The group is 100 percent privately funded, by Fortune 50 companies like Dow Chemical, and by hospitals, businesses and academic institutions. The region includes about 550,000
FERNDALE - Red Level CEO David King talks about the managed services provider and how 2016 is developing into a big year for cloud-based services. Red Level is celebrating its 13th year in business. The company provides IT services to small to medium-sized businesses, project based solutions for non-profits and data analytics, hosting and consulting
PLYMOUTH - Comcast announced Monday it has installed nearly 700 new Xfinity Wi-Fi outdoor hotspots in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Grosse Pointe, Royal Oak and St. Clair Shores - more Xfinity Wi-Fi outdoor hotspots will launch across other Michigan communities later this year. This announcement complements Comcast’s 654,000 Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspots statewide that Xfinity customers can
