TORONTO, Ontario - Fact #1: The world’s largest manufacturer of consumer drones, DJI, takes great measures to ensure its machines are safe. In fact, it uses special-purpose software to protect pilots from flying in (or into) illegal or sensitive areas. Fact #2: A number of hackers are doing their best to effectively remove that armour, in a move
LANSING - Michigan’s business taxpayers now have e-services that include Bulk e-File for Sales, Use and Withholding taxes using approved tax preparation software. Michigan business taxpayers also can make fast payments for Corporate Income Tax, Michigan Business Tax and SUW taxes separate from filing a return. Last month, the state Treasury Department’s business taxes e-service
ROYAL OAK - Sibrina Collins, Executive Director of the Marburger STEM Center at Lawrence Technological University, talks about her outreach program for K-12 and beyond. Collins said the high school summer camps are filled to capacity. Those camps include Biotechnology, Fabrication, Psychology, Sketching and Web Design. 48 percent of the students that participate in these
GRAND RAPIDS - Keith Brophy, State Director of the Michigan SBDC, interviewed Bhushan Kulkarni, Chairman of GDI Infotech and CEO of InfoReady Corp. Both companies are located in Ann Arbor. Bhushan was also co-chair of BBM BizCon 2017, a conference that took place July 6 in Grand Rapids. This year’s conference was focused on 21st
NOVI - ITC Holdings Corp. has promoted Gretchen Holloway to senior vice president and chief financial officer. She is responsible for the company's accounting, internal audit, treasury, financial planning and analysis, management reporting, risk management, and tax functions of the company. “Gretchen provides significant financial leadership to ITC, and in filling this key role she will
ROCHESTER HILLS - According to the National Cyber Security Alliance, one out of every five small-and-medium sized businesses is hit by cybercrime each year. Roughly 60% of these SMBs are out of business within six months of an attack. Today's cybercriminal doesn't discriminate by business type or size. They look for exposed security cracks and
ROYAL OAK – On M2 TechCast July 17, Dr. Tonya Matthews CEO of the Michigan Science Center will talk about the new exhibit, STEM Playground and informal science learning. David Cole will update the auto tech scene. Kathleen Norton Schock will provide all the latest happenings for women in technology. And Nick Lumsden will announce
TROY - If you’d like to attend the IoT Tech Connect event free of charge, you need to sign up at the website by Aug. 1. After that date admission will be $19.95 to attend the event, Oct. 11-12 at the Troy Marriott. IoT Tech Connect is co-produced by CloudTech1.Com and MITechNews.Com. The show is
LANSING - Revenues from Michigan’s primary taxes jumped by nearly 16 percent in June compared to June 2016, netting the state $2.2 billion during the month, figures released Thursday by the Senate Fiscal Agency showed. Strong performance from the individual income tax, the sales tax and state business taxes helped drive the increase which totaled
ANN ARBOR—The sun-powered vehicle that the University of Michigan’s top-ranked Solar Car Team will race in a global contest this fall is the smallest and most aerodynamic that any U-M team has ever built. The long, skinny, single-fairing car is named Novum—Latin for “new thing.” For a week in October, a 17-member race crew will
