MARSHALL - A student team from Penn State Behrend achieved 3,014 miles per gallon at the Society of Automotive Engineers Supermileage competition held earlier at Eaton’s Proving Grounds in Marshall. “The team and car really came together this year for an outstanding performance. The correct combination of driver skill, engine tuning, and environmental and track
GRAND RAPIDS - As Michigan begins to license medical marijuana businesses, a new association seeks to offer an array of financial services to the industry. The Grand Rapids-based Michigan Cannabis Risk and Financial Association LLC wants to connect medical marijuana growers, processors, testing facilities, distributors and sellers with insurance and other professional services they need for their
SOUTHFIELD – The New Economy Initiative has awarded a one-year grant of $40,000 to the Lawrence Technological University Collaboratory for the support of its accelerator program that will enable the growth for small manufacturers and emerging hardware startups in Southeast Michigan. “As a leading resource to small and start-up companies developing innovative, engineered products, the
ROYAL OAK - Kathleen Norton Schock talks Diva Tech Talk and Michigan Council of Women in Technology. Red Level will provide an expert to discuss the latest trends in technology. 123Net’s Ihor Diachenko will talk about connecting 600 buildings to the Internet, and a joint venture with Trivalent Group at Grand Rapids Community College. Cybernoor’s
SACRAMENTO - California will not be the poster child for the nation's strongest set of net neutrality protections, as lawmakers in the State Assembly voted to cut many of the bill's most powerful provisions. The vote on Wednesday in a State Assembly committee hearing advanced a bill that implements some net neutrality protections, but it scaled back
OKEMOS - TechSmith Corporation has updated its Camtasia platform combining screen recording with professional-quality, easy-to-use video editing. Camtasia 2018 also adds new library and theming features and support for high frame rate editing. Video continues to grow in popularity, and new research from TechSmith highlights how companies in the US could unlock nearly $100 billion
DETROIT - Five innovation drivers are producing new competencies, technologies and competitors that will transform a brake-system value chain that has existed for decades. These five innovation drivers will have a major impact on how vehicles operate and how automakers and brake-system suppliers do business. Cooperation is one of the models that will allow companies
SOUTHFIELD - Digital transformation is the insightful evolution of business, organizational activities, processes, and business flows to fully leverage the benefits of digital technologies and their positive and strategic impact. Digital transformation is a trek with the end goal of continual efficiency across processes, business units and the entire ecosystem to not only streamline operations
ROYAL OAK - PocketNest is a Detroit-based fintech company built for people who are...people. Its mission is to demystify financial planning and equip you with the tools you need to manage your own financial plan - without anything slipping through the cracks. And we’ve got Founder and CEO Jessica Willis on M2 TechCast to explain
ROYAL OAK - I sensed a controversial story in an email I received predicting the demise of headhunters. So I contacted the best headhunter I know, Gary Erickson of Executive Search Partners, to get his input. The email said that artificial intelligence will eliminate the human factor in trying to help companies find people to fill
