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
DETROIT - Since 2004 Fr. Richard Dalton, an Anglican priest from Rochester has doggedly published a chronicle of Detroit’s good news, promoted budding artists and shared stories that otherwise wouldn’t have seen the light of day. To get the backstory, click on http://internetadvisor.net/2017/02/podcast-1707-lookupdetroit-and-answering-listener-questions/
ANN ARBOR – In the long history of ITinTHED, dating all the way back to our first events in 2001, we can, unfortunately, count on one hand the number of events that we’ve done in Ann Arbor. It’s not that we don’t like Ann Arbor…we do…it’s just that we don’t have as many contacts out
ROYAL OAK - There’s a new Internet video service coming to Michigan in April called TalkingCarz.Com. It’s focus is on providing auto dealers with much higher visibility on the Internet and social media, where the vast majority of auto buyers start the car and truck shopping process. Founder Steve Tomaszewski said his service is the
ROYAL OAK - Cybersecurity expert Dan Lohrmann from Security Mentor talks about a column he wrote on fake news and fake apps, a huge issue that made big headlines during the 2016 Presidential election. Facebook and other social media sites are now flagging fake news sites to make sure you don’t click on them, many
ROYAL OAK - Want to crush your March Madness office pool this year? Supported Intelligence may have a way for you to do so. Patrick Anderson who co-founded the East Lansing software company explains how SmartBracket works. The national SmartBracket finished in the 95th percentile in both the Yahoo! and ESPN bracket compeitions, ahead of
ROYAL OAK -Lisa R. Kujawa, the Assistant Provost for Enrollment at Lawrence Technological University, joined M2 TechCast to highlight the summer camp schedule coming this July at LTU, where more than two dozen camps will be offered. More than 500 students from all over the state and a few foreign countries attended last year’s camps
DETROIT - Comerica Bank’s Michigan Economic Activity Index was down slightly in December, by 0.1 percentage points, to a level of 129.7. The Michigan Economic Activity Index consists of eight variables: nonfarm payrolls, exports, hotel occupancy rates, continuing claims for unemployment insurance, housing starts, sales tax revenues, home prices, and auto production. All data are
