FARMINGTON HILLS - Great Lakes Angels will hear three elevator pitches on March 15 at UHY Advisors. The meeting is open to accredited investors. The featured companies include: Melius Outcomes Melius Outcomes is the clinical quality solution (software and services bundle) for hospitals that identifies frontline, point-of-care quality issues and provides specific guidance to correct
ANN ARBOR - Whether a nation should retaliate against a cyber attack is a complicated decision, and a new framework guided by game theory could help policymakers determine the best strategy. The "Blame Game" was developed in part by Robert Axelrod, a University of Michigan political scientist who is well known for solving a version
SAN FRANCISCO - CloudPets maker Spiral Toys left 2.2 million children's voice recordings and account info exposed, reports say, and it appears hackers stole and ransomed user data. This is bad news for parents and kids who sent each other voice messages through internet-connected stuffed animals called CloudPets: Their account information and voice recordings
LANSING - University of Michigan advanced transportation Hub and Michigan Tech’s advanced materials Hub will receive $1.7 million and $525,000 in funding, respectively, over a two-year period from the Michigan Strategic Fund to support research projects across Michigan. “Bringing two more innovation hubs into the statewide program is an exciting next step for MTRAC as
SAN FRANCISCO - Usernames and passwords leaked onto the open internet earlier this month because of a security bug that affected 3,400 websites, including popular services like Uber, Fitbit and OkCupid. You wouldn't mind if someone could break into the personal accounts you use to track your movements, your fitness and your love life, would
ANN ARBOR - Despite advancements in fuel-saving technologies over the last 25 years, on-road fuel economy for all vehicles is up only one mile per gallon during that time. In an update to research conducted two years ago, Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute say that actual, on-road
ANN ARBOR - Three members of the Llamasoft team have been named to Supply and Demand Chain Executive’s list of ‘Pros to Know’ for 2017. “I’m proud to have three members of the LLamasoft team recognized in this year’s list of Pros to Know,” said Don Hicks, CEO and President. “The depth of talent at
DETROIT - Connected and Automated Vehicle makers need to work together more collaboratively to identify and develop industry standards for job skills and future training to staff the workforce necessary to ensure Michigan’s leadership role in intelligent transportation systems, a new report contends. Workers related to CAV currently come from a diverse array of occupations,
DETROIT - Some companies feel they are being disrupted by outside forces while others create change from within. Come join the disruptors driving innovation at Manufacturing in America 2017. Everybody is talking about manufacturing: the economy is revving up, and it’s a hot political topic. Ideally, building our industries through expansion and on-shoring will bring
ANN ARBOR - Amazon Web Services (AWS), providing internet access to roughly 40 percent of the U.S. market, crashed on Tuesday afternoon for about five hours, unplugging millions of business websites that serve tens of millions of clients. Online Tech CEO Yan Ness said chief information officers are still picking up the pieces today, and
