LANSING - There is no reason to grant a stay a U.S. District Court judge's ruling striking down the state's elimination of the option for voters to pick a party's slate of candidates with a single mark on the ballot, the plaintiffs suing to prevent the elimination of straight ticket voting said in a Monday
ANN ARBOR - The U.S. National Institutes of Health will award an estimated $9 million over the next five years to a new statewide center to enhance the understanding and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center, launched Monday, will support researchers and clinicians from the University Research Corridor,
GRAND RAPIDS - Venture capital investments in Midwest health sciences companies ballooned during the first half of 2016, both in terms of deal flow and dollar value. Investors collectively put $1.04 billion into 218 deals involving Midwest-based health sciences companies between January and June, according to Cleveland-based BioEnterprise. That’s the largest amount and highest deal
ROYAL OAK - On M2 TechCast Monday Aug. 15, Rachele Downs from Inforum will interview Christina York, Founder and CEO of ALTality, a startup that brings augmented reality into everyday life. Enrico Schaefer, from DroneLawPro, will update new FAA regs for drone pilots. Plus two new MITechNews.Com sponsors, Michael Lomonaco from Open Systems Technologies (OST),
LANSING - Liquid Web, a $90-million web hosting and cloud services provider, announced this week an agreement to purchase the Cloud Sites business unit from publicly traded Rackspace - what Liquid Web CEO Jim Geiger describes as the new strategy to better serve savvy, skilled professionals who are dependent on a highly available and reliable
DETROIT - Mobile app developer jācapps and Greater Media's WMMR have launched the radio station's mobile app that is now part of the Apple CarPlay ecosystem. The release is part of jācapps' "App Everywhere" offerings for radio broadcasters. "It took a lot of collaboration with the Apple and WMMR teams, and we're excited that broadcast
GRAND RAPIDS - Atomic Object co-founder and CEO Carl Erickson, a former professor of Computer Science at Grand Valley State University, was walking his dog in January 2015 when he spotted an old building in the Wealthy historic district for sale. Atomic Object’s headquarters just wasn’t large enough anymore to handle his rapidly growing staff.
DETROIT - Bamboo Detroit will go east next week when it opens its first neighborhood co-working location, a pop-up inside MASH Detroit. It’s first satellite shop is called Bamboo East, located on the east side of Detroit. Bamboo East will offer affordable office space, a conference room, wi-fi, coffee, workshops and networking, Monday-Fridays beginning on
LANSING - The Michigan Attorney General asked the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday for an emergency stay within a week of a lower court ruling striking down Michigan's new law ending the option for voters to choose a political party's slate of candidates with a single mark on the ballot. The state asked
NORTHVILLE - HouseSetter, with the help of MTAM-member company Logic Solutions, has introduced a low-cost, portable monitoring solution to give homeowners peace of mind while they’re away. At $120 for the hardware, and service starting as low as $5 a month, HouseSetter’s canine-shaped device monitors a home’s vitals: power, temperature, and humidity. If something goes
