HOUGHTON - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation has approved a 15-year extension in funding for the Michigan Tech Enterprise Corporation SmartZone, a nonprofit business and technology incubator comprising the cities of Houghton and Hancock. The new authorization extends support of the MTEC SmartZone to 2032. Part of the requirement for an extension was to create
WASHINGTON DC - Between February and September of 2016, the Federal Aviation Administration said commercial pilots, air traffic control, law enforcement and the private citizens reported possibly spotting 1,274 drones flying near air traffic control facilities - a 45 percent increase from all sittings reported in 2015. Still, the FAA says it has yet to
GRAND LEDGE - Over the past several months, alarm bells have been going off regarding potential attacks against the U.S. electrical grid. Consider these recent media headlines: The Wall Street Journal: Cyberattacks Raise Alarm for U.S. Power Grid — Excerpt: “Cyberattacks that have knocked out electric utilities in Ukraine, including one suspected hack earlier this
ANN ARBOR - The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named seven University of Michigan researchers as Sloan Research Fellows for 2017, an honor awarded to 126 early-career scientists and scholars in the United States and Canada. U-M is tied with MIT and Stanford with the most Sloan Fellows this year among all institutions. The two-year,
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Comcast and Google Monday announced a deal that will launch the YouTube app on Xfinity X1 across the country later this year. X1 customers will be able to easily browse and seamlessly access over the Internet the entire YouTube catalog of billions of videos alongside the live, on demand, DVR and web
EAST LANSING – Michigan State University is hosting the 2017 GreenLight Business Model Competition on March 29 offering finalists a chance to win a total of $100,000 in cash prizes. The GreenLight Michigan Business Model Competition is an early-stage pitch competition that brings together entrepreneurs and small business supporters from all over Michigan. Competition finalists will
GRAND RAPIDS - West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum has completed a merger with Michigan's Great Southwest Sustainable Business Forum to create the largest regional organization for sustainable business practitioners in the Midwest. The combined organization, headquartered in Grand Rapids, will serve 220 member organizations and the general community in a 10-county territory that stretches from
WIXOM - Worksighted has opened a new office in Wixom to better serve its rapidly growing client base in Southeast Michigan. Worksighted provides managed IT services and professional IT services to companies throughout Michigan with specialties in manufacturing, healthcare and services industries. The company is looking to recruit six new employees this year. The 3,000
ROYAL OAK - On M2 TechCast Monday Feb. 27, Vinnie Nowaczyk General Sales Manager for Zeigler Auto Group in Grandville will talk about the difference in selling cars in Michigan vs other states. Kathleen Norton-Schoçk will talk about the latest interviews on Diva Tech Talk and news from MCWT. Bamboo Detroit Co-Founder Amanda Lewan will
LANSING - Michael Rogers, communications officer for the Small Business Association of Michigan, talks with Aaron Fuller, owner of Superior Data Strategies in Lansing, to learn more about the basics of data integration and how it can make small businesses more successful. To learn more, click on https://www.sbam.org/Resources/tabid/97/ArtMID/2980/ArticleID/2741/Basics-of-data-integration-for-entrepreneurs.aspx
