LOUISVILLE, Colo.—Office Evolution, the nation’s largest coworking franchisor, announced its continued expansion into Michigan by awarding another Detroit area development deal. The new Office Evolution location in Oakland County will offer private offices, conference rooms, and shared workspace for small- to medium-sized businesses and employees of larger corporations who are working remotely. This new location
LANSING—PlanetM, the state of Michigan’s future mobility and electrification clearinghouse, is adding the Great Lakes Research Center at Michigan Technological University as its newest PlanetM testing facility. The GLRC, on the banks of the Portage Waterway in Houghton, has been testing and deploying connected and autonomous marine vehicles for more than a decade. It is
LANSING—Connected Nation Michigan, the state affiliate of the national high-speed internet promotion organization Connected Nation, announced the release of new broadband coverage maps for the state. The maps can be found at this link. There’s also a map of Michigan’s public Wi-Fi hotspots at this link. The maps now include additional community feedback and internet
GRAND RAPIDS—The Grand Rapids training company Become Unmistakable LLC has rolled out Student uMap, a new product designed to ease the pains and frustration of today’s “COVID classrooms.” Company officials say the new application allows students to safely share their enthusiasm and concerns while providing a platform for their teachers to track social and emotional
ANN ARBOR - If you want to understand where the Michigan cannabis industry is headed, you want to watch this 20 minute round table discussion that was part of Four20 Post on Oct. 7. Under the microscope were politics, and how the sector could eventually be dominated by very large players and unique specialty boutiques
ANN ARBOR - Epidemiologist Fred Brown developed a model that shows the health and financial impact by New Year's Day of the Michigan Supreme Court striking down Gov. Whitmer's executive orders on masks, lockdowns, and social distancing. The results are deadly and expensive. You want to watch this video interview and consider the implications of
DETROIT - Nine years ago, almost to the day, Litecoin was formed after a fork off of the Bitcoin blockchain. It’s original premise was to become the cryptocurrency of choice to make everyday purchases. The reason for this was the lethargic processing times of Bitcoin which threatened to make it irrelevant since it would be
ANN ARBOR - On MITech TV at 2 pm today, tech innovator Gary Baker joins us from his boat in Fort Lauderdale, where he offers pleasure cruises to tourists. Former Detroit Lion Herman Moore explains why he invested in Clicktivated a service that lets lets video viewers engage directly with the products on screen. Infectious
ANN ARBOR—Officials of Swift Biosciences, a developer of gene sequencing technology, and BillionToOne, a Menlo Park, Calif. diagnostics company, announced that Swift Bioscience will be the exclusive distributor of BillionToOne’s RNA extraction-free, Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) COVID-19 Test Kit for high capacity testing of up to a million tests per day. The test is designed to detect
MARQUETTE—Officials at Northcross Group, a provider of cybersecurity and business management services, announced an academic partnership with Northern Michigan University. The partnership will help develop cybersecurity skills in the next generation of cyber professionals through internship opportunities and contributions to NMU’s academic programs and the Upper Peninsula Cybersecurity Institute. Working with today’s COVID limitations on
