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.
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
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
