DETROIT - A group of community-minded people in Detroit are focusing this summer on how to solve policing problems, certainly a hot topic with violence raging across the country between police and the citizens they have been hired to serve and protect. Design Action Lab, a free program focused on community-driven problem solving, and Bamboo
DETROIT - The deadline to apply for the $80,000 NextChallenge: Smart Cities competition is just two weeks away. Innovators should submit an online concept proposal by 11:59 pm EDT on July 28. The competition is co-hosted by NextEnergy, DENSO, DTE Energy and Wells Fargo - both at the individual innovator and organization level – to
SAN FRANCISCO - Pokeman Go isn’t the only breakout Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality success this year. Early stage Venture Capitalists and corporations invested a record $2 billion into AR/VR startups in the last 12 months, despite the fact the market is still in its earliest stages. As the fourth wave of platform change (after PC, online and mobile)
DETROIT - Imagine you’re at a concert watching your favorite band, and out of the corner of your eye you notice a tethered drone hovering nearby. But this drone isn’t taking photos or videos of the band. It's temporarily providing enhanced LTE wireless coverage at the packed venue so you, along with thousands of others
DETROIT - Venture Capital company Fontinalis Partners - who counts William C. Ford Jr. among its partners - closed its $100 million second fund, Fontinalis Capital Partners II, bringing Fontinalis Partners’ total committed capital to $165 million. The money will be used to invest in the best and brightest companies in next-generation mobility - described
AUBURN HILLS - Hackers can get paid a bounty up to $1,500 if they discover potential vehicle cybersecurity vulnerabilities, depending on its impact and severity. That’s the program launched Wednesday by FCA US LLC, the American arm of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. FCA also named the crowdsourced security testing firm Bugcrowd Inc. to manage the program.
LANSING - Michael Rogers, vice president communications for the Small Business Association of Michigan, interviews nationally-known small business advocate, Chris Holman, about the challenges that face small food producers when they get huge orders, seven ways to create office harmony and the best-and-worst entry level jobs. To listen, click on http://www.michiganbusinessnetwork.com/blog/what-happens-when-a-small-business-suddenly-gets-too-successful
ROYAL OAK - After the events of last week, and rather rapidly, we were lucky enough to get Eric Thomas, Calvin Moore, Billy Strawter, and Khary Frazier in-studio to talk about not just the events of the past week, but also the touchy topic of what it’s actually like to be black in America today,
DETROIT - Sharma Krauskopf rejoined the show a year after launching an independent film Lighthouse Unmanned about lighthouse keepers, their families and the huge impact of changes in their lives with the advent of technology. It has been a long trip from Michigan where film incentives money dried up to New York where she found the
DETROIT - David Peterson, like a lot of great smaller competitors, starting with David, King of Israel, discovered that giants aren’t all they are cracked up to be, especially when you “Play Bigger”! That is the title of his new book about Category Design or playing bigger individually, as a business or any kind of
