DETROIT - Detroit is ranked second in the nation in the number of women-owned businesses created over the past nine years, while Michigan ranks fourth among the 50 states and Washington D.C. for the overall growth of women-owned companies. This news comes from a new report commission by American Express OPEN, analyzing data from the
GRAND RAPIDS - Ilium Software has been designing and creating information management tools for mobile devices since 1997. While the technology has changed, the need for easy and useful ways to manage information on the go has not. They have over 18 years of experience making and supporting award-winning info managers for mobile devices. Listen as
FERNDALE - Motor City Connect Founder Terry Bean, the man of a thousand voices, Mr. Detroit himself, appears on M2 TechCast on April 4 to talk about his organization that works hard to connect entrepreneurs, businesses and tech professionals across the Metro area. His LinkedIn group is just short of 10,000 members. LinkedIn became the
FERNDALE - Rave Computer’s Stephen Couchman and Matt Moy call in live from the NVIDIA GTC Conference in San Jose to talk about the Rave Mobilebeast, one of first hard core venture into high end graphics workstation. There is a convergence happening in design and marketing to develop more advanced technology for customers. Most computer
FERNDALE - With 11 offices across the state, the Michigan Small Business and Development Center works to provide tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and businesses across the state. Besides providing a myriad of business training, and mentoring of would-be entrepreneurs, the MISBDC launched in innovative “Small Business, Big Threat,” http://sbdcmichigan.org/cyber-security-initiative/, that allows business to access
LANSING - Michigan's changes in 2012 to the rules governing reimbursement for physician-dispensed prescriptions for workers' compensation claims have so far not seen major increases in new strengths or new formulations of certain pain-relieving medications, but the trend is growing across numerous other states, including neighboring Illinois, a study has found. The Workers Compensation Research
FERNDALE - Diva Tech Talk and Inforum return to M2 (Squared) TechTalk on Monday April 11 from 3 to 4 pm with special guests Monica Wheat of Digerati Girls and Julia Winter of game maker Alchemie. The show can be heard live on the Podcast Detroit Network. Kathleen Norton-Schock, from Diva Tech Talk, will be
DETROIT - The co-author of the book, “Would you Baptize An Extraterrestrial?” Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, a native of Detroit, will appear Saturday April 9 on the Internet Advisor radio show on WJR 760 AM to talk about his new job as Pope Francis’ Astronomer. The “Catholic Astronomer,” will be on the show at 4
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan will be collaborating with Toyota, which will invest $1 billion to create a major autonomous vehicle research base in Ann Arbor, the third such hub in the United States. It joins others established recently in Palo Alto working with Stanford, and in Cambridge with MIT. The Ann Arbor
DEARBORN - EnvisionTEC, which makes professional grade 3D printers and materials, has developed a new 3SP material that is a flexible photopolymer representation of polypropylene. For many prototype and end-use model printing applications, PolyPro MAX 3SP 3D print material serves as an ideal solution to produce items such as snap-fit parts, automotive components, living hinges and
