ANN ARBOR - On Thursday, the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum made an officially licensed, limited-edition bobblehead of University of Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh available for sale. The release comes ahead of Michigan’s College Football Playoff Semifinal Game against Georgia on Friday. Harbaugh was recently named The Associated Press College Football Coach
LANSING - Michigan’s new economic development incentives, mostly designed to help Michigan better compete with other states for new electric vehicle assembly and battery plans, remind me of a hilarious scene in the 1996 hit movie, “Jerry McGuire.” McGuire, a sports agent played by Tom Cruise, is desperate to keep pro football client Rod Tidwell,
ANN ARBOR - Dusty Welsh, executive director for The Discovery Center of McComb County in Mount Clemens, is seeking the help of companies developing Industry 4.0 manufacturing technologies to provide guidance on exactly what types of training The Center needs to provide perspective employees. The Center is a place for children aged 5 to 10
ANN ARBOR - Maura Rylander, the scholarship coordinator for the Women in Defense Michigan Chapter, provides details on STEM scholarships available to women in the defense industry or those that want to join the defense industry. More info at WID-MI.Org https://youtu.be/TMIqJB9A7Xo
DEARBORN - Ford Motor Co. has added to its board of directors John May, CEO of Deere & Co., and analysts say that move illustrates the automaker's commitment to new technology in the cutthroat race toward electric and autonomous vehicle dominance. The fact that Deere just resolved a six-week UAW strike, its first in 35 years, is "icing on the cake,"
DETROIT - AWS offers a number of security features out-of-the-box but it is important to be aware that these mitigations are not impenetrable. There will always be security flaws, especially when your infrastructure grows and the more integrations you have with third-party services. It is essential that you conduct penetration tests on your AWS infrastructure
DETROIT - Cloud pentesting is the process of testing a cloud service for vulnerabilities. A pentester can do this by scanning, gathering information about or breaching the target. The goal is to find any security holes before an attacker does and mitigate them so that your data remains safe. This blog post discusses types of
ANN ARBOR - Monica Wheat talks about the launch of the new Tech Stars Equitech Accelerator and a variety of other private equity finance and entrepreneur startup activities she's involved with in Detroit in this video interview. If you are a tech entrepreneur, you want to find out more. https://youtu.be/6oZunRrRO-w
LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission approved a substantially reduced rate increase of $27,118,000 for Consumers Energy Co.’s electric operations, a nearly 88 percent reduction from the $225 million the utility had originally requested. A typical residential customer who uses 500 kilowatt hours of electricity per month will see an increase of 59 cents (0.64%) on their monthly
STAMFORD, Conn. - Through 2024, Gartner predicts that 60 percent of organizations will seek artificial intelligence (AI) use cases in financial management solutions. With the explosion of AI and automation in the financial services industry, specifically in spend and expense management, this stat will likely be out of date much earlier. Investors are betting huge
