SOUTHFIELD ? Oakland County hosted its first tech248 networking event January 20 at Blue Water Technologies in Southfield, attracting about 100 professionals, far more than organizer Greg Doyle said the nascent technology networking group expected. Tech248, the brainchild of Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, also kicked off a partnership with MITechNews.Com and its media
DETROIT - Episode 74, ITInTheD.Com, Kinsay Mantay and Nicole Johnson, talk about a cool program that gets you paid while earning your Associate?s Degree as well as getting you a job once you?re done, a $10,000 Internet of Things contest for young girls, a new group that?s starting up called Digital Divas that we?re looking
DETROIT ? Internet Advisor podcast: Craig Aaron, President and CEO of FreePress, joins us to describe new FCC rules governing the use of the Internet. The Auto Show is in full swing with some amazing, ground breaking things happening right on the show floor. MiTechNews Headlines with Mike Brennan. To listen, Click on InternetAdvisor.Net
ANN ARBOR ? MichBio, the state?s Life Sciences trade association, has posted six jobs on its web site, that include two in Ann Arbor. Jobs include: Head of Regulatory Affairs Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. - Ann Harbor Esperion seeks to recruit a highly qualified individual to lead Regulatory Affairs. The title will be determined based on
NEW YORK - Tapping a link on your smartphone to watch a new music video might sound harmless, but it got one 12-year-old girl from Tennessee into trouble last year. Instead of a video, the preteen -- whose name has not been disclosed because of her age -- had unwittingly installed malicious software that downloaded
WASHINGTON DC - Cybersecurity reforms are now a top priority of President Barack Obama. Whether Congress will care remains an open issue. During his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, the president barely tipped his hat to major cybersecurity reform proposals he introduced in speeches last week. They included streamlining the current patchwork
ANN ARBOR - A newly-released report by the Center for Automotive Research calculates the substantial economic contribution of the automotive industry to the national economy and the economies of all 50 states. Nationally, automakers, parts suppliers, and dealerships directly employ nearly 1.6 million workers and support a total of more than 7 million total jobs
SOUTHFIELD - The application deadline is Feb. 4 for the next nine-week Michigan I-Corps@LTU program that helps designers, innovators, engineers and tinkerers move their business ideas from the drawing board to the marketplace. classes start Feb. 14 at Lawrence Technological University. This year?s program will emphasize Design Thinking, a product development process that goes through
LANSING - In his first State of the State address of his second term, Governor Rick Snyder said Tuesday that now was an opportunity to make fundamental changes to government, especially in the way it delivered services to persons needing help to get back into the mainstream of life. As part of that effort, Snyder
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder unveiled Tuesday the first piece of his much anticipated energy agenda in saying he will create a new agency that would combine the Public Service Commission with economic development and environmental elements. Snyder will deliver his full energy proposal in March, coming in advance of the state's main energy law,