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5G To Reach 1.5 Billion Subscriptions By 2024

DETROIT - 5G is expected to reach more than 40 percent global population coverage and 1.5 billion subscriptions for enhanced mobile broadband by the end of 2024. This will make 5G the fastest generation of cellular technology to be rolled out on a global scale, according to the latest edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report.

By |2018-11-27T15:05:53-05:00November 27th, 2018|IoT, News|

DTE Energy Donates $10 Million To Help Low-Income Residents Pay Heating Bills

DETROIT - DTE Energy announced it is donating $10 million to four Michigan outreach agencies to help low-income residents stay safe and warm during the cold winter months and throughout the year. The funds may be used to assist residents struggling to pay current and past due utility bills and may also be used to support

By |2018-11-27T15:02:32-05:00November 27th, 2018|New Products / Contracts|

Edge Partnerships, Publicom Partner To Create Marketing, PR, Design, Digital Experience

 LANSING – Edge Partnerships and Publicom have joined forces to create a new partnership that will focus on marketing, public relations, design and digital experience. The new agency is called Edge Publicom. More than a year in the planning, the new partnership purposefully worked toward a business model founded on exceptional client service, guaranteed results

By |2018-11-27T14:16:54-05:00November 27th, 2018|New Products / Contracts|

FlagStar Bank Becomes Founding Partner For North American FinTech Hub

DETROIT - FlagStar Bank has become the founding partner for the North American FinTech Hub, Detroit FinTech Bay has announced.  A key mission of Detroit FinTech Bay will be to drive collaboration between the great minds creating innovative FinTech solutions, and the institutions who need those solutions. Within the space, the community of residents, investors,

By |2018-11-27T13:54:27-05:00November 27th, 2018|Featured, New Products / Contracts|

LIFT Adds Two New Board Members

DETROIT – The American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute, which operates Detroit-based LIFT – Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow, a Manufacturing USA institute, has named two new members to its Board of Directors. Karen M. Belans, chief financial officer, Detroit Regional Chamber, and Martin Kinsella, director of business development, Comau, officially begin serving as Directors on

By |2018-11-27T13:54:27-05:00November 27th, 2018|New Products / Contracts|

Auto Coalition Formed To Save Electric Vehicle Tax Credit

WASHINGTON DC - Tesla, GM, and Nissan, have joined forces with other players in the electric vehicle space to launch a coalition to reform and recharge the electric vehicle tax credit. Several other well-known companies are part of the coalition including, ABB, ChargePoint, Plug-in America, Proterra, and Volta. There are two different legislative efforts to change the

By |2018-11-27T13:54:27-05:00November 27th, 2018|Auto Tech, Clean Update|

Social Media Rumor Wrongly Charges Voter Fraud In State

LANSING - An inaccurate claim, apparently started by a Chicago-area conservative author and picked up by a number of Michigan residents on social media, asserted that 60 percent of Michigan counties report more registered voters than residents, a charge easily refuted by looking at voter data and state population data. The claim was initially made

By |2018-11-16T10:18:36-05:00November 16th, 2018|Politics, Politics/Government|

Michigan’s Economy Poised To Break Job Growth Record

ANN ARBOR—The Michigan economy, with nine years of uninterrupted job growth from the third quarter of 2009 to the third quarter of 2018, sits on the brink of the longest period of job growth since the World War II era, University of Michigan economic forecasters say. The current job-winning streak ties with the period ranging

By |2018-11-16T10:16:00-05:00November 16th, 2018|Featured, News|

Forecast For National Economy Sees Continued Growth, Though Slowing

ANN ARBOR - The U.S. economy should continue to grow over the next two years, but the pace of growth will slow as fiscal stimulus in the form of the effects of the 2017 tax changes and increased federal spending fade, economists at the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics as the University of Michigan forecast

By |2018-11-16T10:13:28-05:00November 16th, 2018|Featured, News|