FARMINGTON HILLS – If you are an accredited investor, and would like to review four possible investments, Great Lakes Angels invites you to its pitch night April 26 at UHY Advisors. The meeting is open to member and non-members alike. Accredited investors earn $250,000 or more each year, or have a net worth (excluding their
FERNDALE - Rachele Downs, vice president of Entrepreneurial Strategy for Inforum, joined M2 TechCast co-Host Mike Brennan on the April 11 edition of the Internet radio show on the PodcastDetroit Network. With her was guest Julia Winter CEO, founder at Alchemie, which builds mobile games for higher education, beginning with a huge pain point, organic chemistry. This
FERNDALE - Kathleen Norton-Schock, one of three Diva Tech Talk co-hosts, joins M2 (Squared) TechCast co-host Mike Brennan on April 11 with her guest, Monica Wheat. Wheat is a multitalented tech entrepreneur and founder of several groups that promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education for young women. During this interview, Wheat explains why she
DEARBORN - Last month, under the cover of night, a Ford Fusion Hybrid autonomous research vehicle with no headlights on navigated along lonely desert roads, performing a task that would be perilous for a human driver. Driving in pitch black at Ford Arizona Proving Ground marks the next step on the company’s journey to delivering
AUBURN HILLS - The Macomb-OU INCubator has been awarded $22,240 to provide accelerator services to client company Medar Corporation to develop image acquisition and analysis systems to assist medical professionals in providing far superior care. Cedar has developed an Automated Diplopia Assessment System for quantifying pupil tracking specifically geared to diplopia, or eye misalignment, diagnosis.
ANN ARBOR - A joint project of the University of Michigan School of Education and College of Engineering to bring sensor technology to Detroit communities has won $138,339 in the 2016 Knight Cities Challenge. The program will engage Detroit youth in grades 8-12 as the future leaders, scientists and planners of the city. An interdisciplinary
HOLLAND - An energy era ended April 13 in Holland when 76-year-old James De Young Power Plant stopped burning coal and converted to natural gas. Leftover coal still at JDY will be sold to other organizations as part of the preparation for removal of the coal yard and ash ponds in 2017. “JDY is a
SOUTHFIELD - Our latest Diva Tech Talk interview is with Valerie Rogers, MPH, Director of State Government Affairs for HIMSS, a global organization focused on better health through information technology. As a cause-based non-profit, HIMSS North America provides thought leadership, community building, professional development, public policy, and events; and represents 61,000 individual members, 640 corporate
FERNDALE - Oh, do we have some fun and cool stuff on tap for you tonight for episode 139 of ITINTHED in our weekly live podcast broadcast coming from the Podcast Detroit studio. We’re being joined by a guy that builds fully functional computers out of legos, as well as a new dating app that’s
DETROIT - Ben Carpenter paid a return visit to the Internet Advisor to talk about technology and farming. Ben has been a frequent commentator over the years both online and on the phone talking about the technology that he uses to farm over a 1,000 acres of corn, soy and wheat near the Ohio border in southern
