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Blaze Medical Devices Wins $150,000 SBIR Grant

ANN ARBOR - Blaze Medical Devices has been awarded a $150,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Food and Drug Administration, in collaboration with University of Michigan Health System Center for Circulatory Support. The focus of this grant is to study damage to patients’ red blood cells caused by left ventricular assist

By |2015-10-20T21:03:11-04:00October 20th, 2015|Entrepreneurs, Life Sciences, News|

OST Chosen By CRN Magazine As 2015 Triple Crown Winner

GRAND RAPIDS - Open Systems Technologies announced it has been chosen by CRN Magazine as a 2015 Triple Crown Winner. The Triple Crown Winner list features the most elite solution provider companies in North America as featured on CRN’s Solution Provider 500, Tech Elite 250, and Fast Growth 150 lists in 2015. OST was recognized on each

By |2015-10-20T20:42:58-04:00October 20th, 2015|Entrepreneurs, New Products / Contracts, News|

Survey: 75 Percent Of Southeast Michigan Companies Have Implemented Eureka Technologies

DETROIT – Seventy five percent of Southeast Michigan businesses surveyed have implemented so-called Eureka! Technologies - from new computer installations, to creating new patentable products - within the past year. With each new technological change or innovation, the workforce has been forced to adapt and respond to stay competitive in the new economy, contends a

By |2015-10-20T20:10:46-04:00October 20th, 2015|Entrepreneurs, Featured, News|

FCC Attorney Headlines Grand Rapids Cyber Security Conference

  GRAND RAPIDS - Federal Trade Commission Attorney Christopher Panek is the keynote speaker at the 2nd Annual Grand Rapids Cyber Security Conference October 21 at Grand Valley State University. Trivalent Group, the Better Business Bureau of Western Michigan, and the West Michigan Cyber Security Consortium are hosting the conference. Attorney Panek, who will speak on

By |2015-10-19T22:25:22-04:00October 19th, 2015|Cyber Defense, Featured|

7 US Companies Hacked By Chinese Since Promise Not To Attack US

WASHINGTON DC - Seven US companies have been attacked by government-associated Chinese hackers in the three weeks since the US and China announced a pact that banned government spying on companies, a US security firm said Monday. The hacks by "actors we have affiliated with the Chinese government" targeted five technology companies and two pharmaceutical

By |2015-10-19T22:10:47-04:00October 19th, 2015|Cyber Defense, Featured|

Adobe’s Flash Player Getting Critical Security Update This Week

  SAN FRANCISCO - Adobe confirmed it has discovered a new vulnerability in Flash Player that affects every version running on the Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems. Adobe said that it will issue an out-of-cycle security update this week to address the software plug-in's vulnerability, which it warned could crash and potentially allow an

By |2015-10-19T22:10:47-04:00October 19th, 2015|Cyber Defense, Featured|

Mistakes In Flint Water Change Mean Leadership Change At DEQ

LANSING – Heads will soon be rolling at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality where officials failed to follow proper treatment and testing protocols when Flint moved from the Detroit water system to drawing from the Flint River and took too long to fix the problem once they discovered their error. Environmental Quality Director Dan Wyant said

By |2015-10-19T22:11:19-04:00October 19th, 2015|Clean Update, Featured, Politics|

National Venture Capital Investment For First 3 Quarters Higher Than Full Year Totals For 17 Of Past 20 Years

WASHINGTON, DC – Venture capitalists invested $16.3 billion in 1,070 deals in the third quarter of 2015, according to the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. The $47.2 billion invested in the first three quarters of 2015 is higher than each

By |2015-10-16T11:18:27-04:00October 16th, 2015|Entrepreneurs, Featured|

Osram Sylvania Demos New LED Modules, Headlights

NORTHVILLE – Osram Sylvania announced this week it has expanded its New Hampshire manufacturing capabilities by adding the first advanced Surface Mount Technology production line for the hot new LED modules that are increasingly making their way into new cars and trucks. Osram Sylvania’s Southeast Michigan office is in Northville. On Monday night, MITechNews.Com Editor

By |2015-10-16T10:32:11-04:00October 16th, 2015|New Products / Contracts|

Benzinga’s Detroit Move Fuels Its Big Vision

DETROIT - Jason Raznick founder of Benzinga says their success was somewhat accidental at first. He started Benzinga, the financial media company, back in 2010. Now five years later the company has seen exponential growth and made a move to join the technology scene in Downtown Detroit.  To read the rest of this story, click on http://www.michipreneur.com/benzingas-detroit-move-fuels-their-big-vision/

By |2015-10-16T10:13:05-04:00October 16th, 2015|Entrepreneurs|