DETROIT - Traditional themes will be the story at the Detroit Regional Chamber Mackinac Policy Conference later this month with entrepreneurship, education and yes, addressing the state's roads being among the key topics expected to be discussed during a busy agenda that officials released this week. A central theme being pushed this year, Detroit Regional
LANSING - Cost overruns on information technology in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services prompted the Senate to include several provisions in the DHHS budget bill for the 2019-20 fiscal year changing how IT is handled in the department. There is a shortfall in what DHHS has to spend on technology. How much,
DETROIT – Terry Bean, best known for creating Motor City Connect 13 years ago, has expanded his social media outreach by co-creating #ClubMCC. The official launch will be May 28 in Ferndale during the monthly MCC lunch meet-up. “Over the past couple of months I’ve been lining up a group of people for whom I
DETROIT - The Michigan entrepreneurial ecosystem has come a long ways in the past couple of decades, but it was still missing a key piece, a platform to showcase startups, connections to funders and tech hubs. On May 20, the Michigan Israel Business Accelerator will takes the wraps off StartupMichigan.Tech, what Chris Rizik CEO and
WASHINGTON DC - The Justice Department has charged two Chinese hackers accused of stealing millions of records from one of the largest health insurance companies in the US. The US government announced charges against Fujie Wang and another hacker with three different aliases (Deniel Jack, Kim Young and Zhou Zhihong), accusing the two Chinese nationals
ANN ARBOR—Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc., the developer of “spider silk” textiles through genetic engineering, announced that its subsidiary Prodigy Textiles has signed a new five-year lease on a 50,000-square-foot factory in Quang Nam province, Vietnam. Company officials, in a press release, said the new factory “is expected to play a major role in supporting the
ANN ARBOR—Though the Detroit River delivers one-quarter of the phosphorus that flows into Lake Erie, there’s never been a detailed accounting of the nutrient’s urban and agricultural sources across the entire binational watershed. The uncertainty created by this knowledge gap has complicated efforts to develop a regional strategy for reducing phosphorus inputs to Lake Erie,
LIVONIA—PSI Repair Services Inc., the Livonia-based service provider to the wind energy industry, announced that it recently surpassed 40,000 repaired wind turbine parts for the wind energy market, following a busy 2018. PSI offers component repair and engineering services for GE, Vestas, Gamesa, Siemens, RePower, Acciona, Suzlon, Nordex, Mitsubishi, and Clipper wind turbines. PSI covers
DETROIT—Airspace Experience Technologies, an aviation technology start-up that is developing an electric-powered vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that can be rented by the public, announced the launch of an equity funding round through the crowdfunding platform SeedInvest. The company, based at Detroit City Airport, seeks to produce and operate fleets of safe, reliable, emission-free aircraft.
ANN ARBOR—Pixel Velocity, the Ann Arbor-based provider of industrial Internet of Things software and services, announced the addition of several new executives. Pixel Velocity’s Event Velocity is a digital operations software platform for automating the monitoring and management of remote and hazardous assets. Patrick Talley joined the company as executive vice president of sales. Talley has
