TROY– J.D. Power has completed its purchase of ZappyRide, a New York City-based electric vehicle data company that builds white-label software and tools for automotive original equipment manufacturers, utilities, and other greentech stakeholders. The acquired company offers a range of software and services that include strategic planning for electrification programs, consumer shopping and cost analysis
ANN ARBOR–AdAdapted Inc., the digital advertising firm for consumer packaged goods, and eGrowcery, develoers of a white-label e-commerce platform for the retail food industry, have announced a new partnership. Both companies are based in Ann Arbor. “This partnership is all about eGrowcery and AdAdapted driving more platform eyeballs and enabling more sales for the retailers
JACKSON–Officials at Consumers Energy announced that the Jackson-based utility has completed its upgrade to the South Oakland Macomb Network pipelines. The $164 million investment included replacing nearly 30 miles of vintage pipe and installing nearly 17 miles of new. “The more quickly and safely we can provide natural gas to Michiganders, the better it is
SAN FRANCISCO - Can Tesla remain the leader in the modern electric vehicle market it effectively created? That question has been on the mind of EV buyers, investors, analysts, industry watchers, and Elon Musk stans for months now. That’s especially been the case as questions over demand in China and the US — not to mention the
SOUTHFIELD - The January ISSA Motor City Chapter Meeting will be dedicated for members to provide input to the upcoming meetings, topics and activities. Date: January 19, 2023 Time: 6:00PM to 8:00PM Agenda: Meeting in-person/hybrid What topics are members interested in? Do you know of individuals to speak? Do you want an opportunity to speak?
MARQUETTE – Peninsula Fiber Network experienced a system error on Jan. 10 that impacted service to 911 dispatch centers across the state. An error occurred in the company’s optical transport network resulting in database corruption. This caused a hardware/software mismatch resulting in some 911 calls to not be completed as expected or calls that lacked
SEATTLE - ChatGPT, the new chatbot that's taken the internet by storm and already drafted unknown numbers of proposals, emails, poems, and grade school reports--and of course answered questions for more than a million users--will be integrated into Microsoft's Bing search engine sometime in March, according to multiple media reports. Microsoft has not commented publicly on the
ANN ARBOR - Skip Simms was one of Ann Arbor SPARK's first employees when it was created a couple decades ago to provide business training and services to the Ann Arbor tech community, including engineers coming out of the University of Michigan. On Dec. 31, Simms retired from SPARK and stepped down as managing partner
SAN FRANCISCO - Next month, AI will enter the courtroom, and the US legal system may never be the same. An artificial intelligence chatbot, technology programmed to respond to questions and hold a conversation, is expected to advise two individuals fighting speeding tickets in courtrooms in undisclosed cities. The two will wear a wireless headphone,
WASHINGTON DC - With the federal government promising over US$360 billion in clean energy incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act, energy companies are already lining up investments. It’s a huge opportunity, and analysts project that it could help slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by about 40% within the decade. But in conversations with energy industry leaders in recent months,
