ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor SPARK presented its annual FastTrack awards to 14 Washtenaw County-based companies that have demonstrated fast growth, including Online Tech and LLamasoft, achieving 10 years of year over year growth. FastTrack awards are presented to companies with impressive records of growth. Recipients of 2015 FastTrack awards were required to have revenue
LONDON, England - TomTom should book a ticket for Vegas. The Dutch mapmaker is riding a major hot streak of late; new agreements include Volkswagen of America, Apple and – as of last week – Uber. Financial details of the latest deal were not disclosed but TomTom says that it will provide mapping, traffic and
ANN ARBOR - Duo Security, Mina Sooch and Arboretum Ventures will be honored on Nov. 30 at the Michigan Venture Capital Association annual dinner. Duo Security has been named winner of the MVCA “100” Award, Mina Sooch Entrepreneur of the Year, while Arboretum Ventures won the Capital Event of the Year Award. Trillium Ventures’ founder
LANSING - Clearing key legislation out of the Michigan House Energy Policy Committee last week was important to give the full House enough time with the bills so when the chamber returns from its Thanksgiving break, members will possibly be ready to vote, Rep. Aric Nesbitt, the committee chair, said Friday. The committee, last week, after
LANSING - Switch, a Nevada-based data storage center with international appeal, may be finding a place to locate at least a portion of its business on the west side of the state, and it may have help from the Michigan Legislature to do so. Six bills, three in the Michigan House and three in the
PONTIAC - Nearly 20 members of The Engineering Society of Detroit got a peek at the “next industrial revolution” Thursday with a tour of the 3D printing laboratory of Pontiac-based DASI Solutions. DASI owner and co-founder David Darbyshire gave the members a detailed history of the family-owned business — which now employs four of the
DETROIT - It’s almost that time of year, where entrepreneurs all around the world network and celebrate together. There’s often not much planned in our Metro Detroit area, so it’s great to see this upcoming event being held at the Palace of Auburn Hills in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2015. The event aims to bring
ALLEGAN - Mylan NV lost its $26 billion hostile bid for Perrigo Co. after a seven-month pursuit, a rare outcome in what shaped up to be one of the most bitter takeover battles in decades, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Mylan said that about 40 percent of Perrigo’s shares were tendered in the offer. It needed at
FERNDALE – Cybersecurity experts Richard Stiennon and Dan Lohrmann will kick off a monthly update on Nov. 23 on M2 TechCast, heard on the PodcastDetroit Network. They’ll discuss cyber security at the State level. Discussion points include: Michigan named one of top 8 when it comes to cyber; What should the other states be doing
Technology Century NOVI – M2 TechCast, an Internet radio show on the PodcastDetroit Network, will broadcast live Monday Nov. 16 from the Engineering Society of Detroit Job Fair, where more than 50 major employers will be seeking to fill well over 2,000 primarily IT jobs. Show co-hosts, Mike Brennan, Editor and Publisher of
