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$6.4 Million In Tax Incentives To Generate $54 Million In Capital Investment

LANSING - What does $6,637,960 in tax incentives buy you? Investments by six businesses that collectively will generate $54 million in capital investment and an estimated 179 jobs around the state, thanks to the Michigan Strategic Fund, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. announced. * Minghua USA Inc., a subsidiary of China-based Jiangnan MPT Co. Ltd., received a $500,000 Michigan

By |2018-01-05T12:26:35-05:00January 5th, 2018|ESD|

November Unemployment Rate Declines In 17 Michigan Labor Markets

LANSING - Thirteen of the state's 17 labor market areas saw declines in seasonally unadjusted unemployment rates in November while total employment and labor force levels also increased in most regions. "November unemployment rates declined slightly in the state's southern areas, and rose seasonally in the northern regions," Jason Palmer, director of the Bureau of

By |2018-01-05T12:13:19-05:00January 5th, 2018|Politics, Politics/Government|

DroneView Technologies CEO Provides Drone Market Outlook For 2018

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP - What’s the hot trends for commercial drones in 2018? Michael Singer, CEO of DroneView Technologies, takes a look into his crystal ball and predicts. 1.   2018 will see significantly increased adoption of drones into mainstream business workflows as the tipping point for commercial drone use has arrived 2.   Drones used for surveying/mapping

By |2018-01-05T18:56:28-05:00January 5th, 2018|Drones|

Flaws In Chip Design Could Make Computers, Smartphones Vulnerable To Hackers

SAN FRANCISCO - A newly discovered exploit in most modern processors could make your computer or smartphone vulnerable to attacks. The problem impacts processors going back more than two decades and could let hackers access passwords, encryption keys or sensitive information open in applications.  The flaws, known by the names Spectre and Meltdown, aren't unique to one particular

By |2018-01-04T19:49:30-05:00January 4th, 2018|Cyber Defense|

IoT Will Be Massive In 2018: Four Predictions From IBM

NEW YORK - Forbes magazine interviewed Bret Greenstein, VP of IBM's Watson IoT Consumer Business, who highlighted four key IoT trends. Interestingly three of those trends were around convergence with other distinct yet highly correlated technologies. This underlines the principle that data is the fundamental ingredient of digital transformation. The technologies predicted to make big

By |2018-01-04T18:48:57-05:00January 4th, 2018|Featured, IoT|

Wireless Broadband-Like 5G To Drive IoT Innovations Over Next Decade

LAS VEGAS - At this year's Consumer Electronics Show that starts this weekend you'll hear plenty of talk about driverless cars, connected homes and the internet of things. But here's the technology that will drive all of those innovations over the next decade: 5G. The shorthand tag "5G" stands for fifth-generation wireless technology. Those broadband-like

By |2018-01-04T15:09:44-05:00January 4th, 2018|IoT|

Cybersecurity In Self-Driving Cars: U-M Releases Threat Identification Tool

ANN ARBOR - Instead of taking you home from work, your self-driving car delivers you to a desolate road, where it pulls off on the shoulder and stops. You call your vehicle to pick you up from a store and instead you get a text message: Send $100 worth of Bitcoin to this account and

By |2018-01-04T14:30:36-05:00January 4th, 2018|Autonomous Vehicles, Cyber Defense, Featured, IoT|

The Dark Side Of The Internet Of Things – Most Devices Are Easy To Hack

LAS VEGAS - While gadget makers see IoT devices powering our future, security experts view the potential pitfalls from all those connected gadgets as more of a sleeping giant. And watch out when it wakes up. It's the dark side of connected devices that nobody wants to talk about during a week when the consumer

By |2018-01-03T19:22:03-05:00January 3rd, 2018|Cyber Defense, IoT|

CES 2018: Where You’ll Start Caring About 5G

LAS VEGAS - At this year's CES you'll hear plenty of talk about driverless cars, connected homes and the internet of things. (Yes, we promise IoT, perhaps the buzziest of tech trends, is more than just hackable baby monitors and $400 internet-connected juicers.) Here's the technology that will drive all of those innovations over the next decade: 5G.

By |2018-01-02T19:37:49-05:00January 2nd, 2018|Auto Tech, Featured, IoT|

Airfoil Group’s Moynihan Explains PR For The Digital Age – Underscore Video

ROYAL OAK - The role of Public Relations has expanded dramatically. In this new world, PR agencies must keep new things in mind in order to succeed. They must also be nimble enough to adapt to future disruptions, because the Digital Age simply doesn’t stand still, so says Tim Moynihan from Airfoil Group. Moynihan, based

By |2018-01-02T13:52:13-05:00January 2nd, 2018|Featured, Guest Columns, M2 TechCast, Podcasts|