EAST LANSING - Detroit Catholic Central High School’s VEX Shambots B team won the coveted VEX Robotics Excellence Award and a three-team alliance from Bloomfield Hills, Grandville, and Rochester were high school tournament champions at the 2017 Michigan VEX Robotics State Championship on Sunday, Feb. 19, at Michigan State University. At the middle school level,
GRAND RAPIDS - In Michigan Venture Capital has been on a slow and steady rise. Now, experienced investor Tim Streit of Huron River Ventures along with McKeel Hagerty an entrepreneur and investor, launched the newest VC firm Grand Ventures. Previously Streit co-founded Huron River Ventures, which raised $16 million and invested in leading technology companies
BOCA RATON, FL - It’s true – Twitter has its problems, but in certain cases and contexts, it truly is the best ad platform you’ll find – though ultimately it will depend on what you hope to accomplish. But Twitter offers some unique ad targeting features you won’t find anywhere else. These are the unicorns
ROYAL OAK - Lawrence Tech’s Catherine Phillips and Deirdre Hennebury join M2 TechCast co-hosts Mike Brennan and Matt Roush to discuss the huge impact Albert Kahn had on Detroit architecture. The Albert Kahn Research Coalition is collaborating with the LTU Library and the LTU College of Architecture and Design’s Lectures and Exhibitions Committee to present
ROYAL OAK - Tember Shea, director of the Inforum inGAGE program for second-stage women entrepreneurs, interviewed Parisa Soraya, co-founder and chief product officer for Find Your Ditto - a mobile platform that brings together people who share chronic conditions, such as diabetes. Find Your Ditto in December won the first annual global Lyfebulb/Novo Nordisk Innovation
ROYAL OAK - If you’re not able to attend some of the great events held at Automation Alley, CloudTech1 has your back. The Managed Service Provider’s CEO Rick Beckers has announced a deal with Automation Alley to live video stream programs held in the big and small conference rooms. Beckers also is launching a series
ROYAL OAK - Automation Alley’s Erin Sommerville provides highlights of the just released Automation Alley 2017 Technology Report that focuses on how Industry 4.0 - the cyber industrial revolution - will transform manufacturing in Michigan. If you are a Michigan manufacturer, or a technology company that wants to sell your products or services to manufacturers,
SAN FRANCISCO - Last Winter as meteorologists warned of a monster El Nino, researchers at the Nature Conservancy in California prepared to mobilize. El Niño promised to bring in king tides that would raise the sea level by as much as one foot above normal during high tide, causing flooding along the coastline that researchers
ANN ARBOR - New findings from the University of Michigan explain an Ice Age paradox and add to the mounting evidence that climate change could bring higher seas than most models predict. The study, published in Nature, shows how small spikes in the temperature of the ocean, rather than the air, likely drove the rapid
ROYAL OAK - Cybersecurity expert Dan Lohrmann returns to M2 TechCast on Monday Feb. 20 to discuss his take on the RSA convention and to tell readers how to determine whether news is fake. Lisa Kujawa from Lawrence Technological University will talk about the upcoming LTU summer computer camps. Steve Tomaszewski founder of www.talkingcarz.com announces
