ROYAL OAK - Lawrence Technology University over the past decade has become much more of a residential college, with some 1,100 students living on the Southfield campus. What’s more, LTU has 23 sports available including a new football program that starts in fall 2018. LTU Communications Director Matt Roush - also a co-host of M2
ROYAL OAK - Applications are now open for the sixth annual GreenLight Business Model Competition, a $100,000 statewide contest focused on early-stage entrepreneurs, based in Michigan, less than two years old. Applicants must be Michigan residents and have a well-crafted business idea. Applicants who already have a registered business must provide evidence that the entity
LANSING - Despite the enrollment period being cut to just 45 days and cutbacks in federal promotion efforts, the number of Michigan residents who signed up for health insurance through federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was nearly 300,000, which shows the controversial law remains a viable option for many persons, one health care
ROYAL OAK - Augmented Reality now has First Amendment Free Speech Protection after attorney Brian Wassom from Warner Norcross & Judd won a court case in December that would have forced Candy Lab AR to buy permits for its customers to use public parks to play Texas Rope ‘Em, an AR game. The case represents
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - No More Ransom is a joint effort by Europol, the Dutch police, Kaspersky and McAfee to help people who've been compromised by ransomware get their data back without paying off criminals. It's "a repository of keys and applications that can decrypt data locked by different types of ransomware." There's still ransomware out
ANN ARBOR - Cohoots, the new tech hub community and co-working space in downtown Ann Arbor, Thursday announced the hiring of Alison Todak as Managing Director. As the former program manager of the University of Michigan’s Desai Accelerator–a tech focused business program that supports new ventures at a critical stage in their development, including funding
GRAND RAPIDS - North American light vehicle sales should dip this year to around 17.1 million units, breaking a streak of seven consecutive year-over-year gains, according to Mike Wall of IHS Markit. But while he expects the market to contract further to around 16.9 million units next year, Wall believes the automotive supply chain is positioned
ANN ARBOR - Consumer confidence in 2017 was the highest since 2000, and only the long expansions of the 1960s and 1990s were significantly higher, a new report from the University of Michigan says. Consumer confidence did sink in December, with most of the decline among lower income households, according to the University of Michigan
ANN ARBOR - Faculty at the University of Michigan School of Information and Washtenaw Community College will collaborate on an open-source course with the goal of encouraging more students to consider a U-M Bachelor of Science in Information degree. The two institutions have teamed up to offer WCC students, particularly those underrepresented in STEM fields,
DETROIT - The Internet Advisor on WJR 760 AM is joined by a group of very talented young women (Gen Z) who won the Michigan Council of Women in Technology Website Design 2017 Competition. Guests include: Jamie Fu – 1st place high school advanced category – Novi High School Sonia Bhakkad – 2nd place high school advanced category – Plymouth
