SOUTHFIELD - Cranbrook Kingswood Girl?s Middle School will host the World Robot Olympiad Michigan Tournament on September 6 to select regular and open category student teams in Michigan. Opening ceremonies begin at 8:30 a.m. and the event is expected to end at 3 p.m. The public is welcome and admission is free. WRO is a
DETROIT - Compuware Corporation has agreed to be purchased by Thoma Bravo, a California-based private equity investment firm, for $2.5 billion. The joint press release did not say whether Compuware would remain in Detroit or what would become of its employees. But in an interview CEO Bob Paul said no layoffs were planned. ?Organizations are
ANN ARBOR ? Sakti announced that it has produced a battery cell on fully scalable equipment with over 1100 Watt hours per liter (Wh/l) in volumetric energy density. This translates to more than double the usage time in a wearable device like a smartwatch, from 3.5 h to more than 9 h. It also translates
FARMINGTON HILLS - Beringea announced its Fund has made a $5 million investment in InContext Solutions, Inc., a Web-based company providing three dimensional virtual store research, simulations, and software to manufacturers and retailers. Beringea led the $12 million Series D round, which included a $4 million investment from Beringea?s London affiliate Beringea, LLP, and funding
GRAND RAPIDS - Dematic, a global supplier of logistics systems for factory, warehouse and distribution centers, is expanding its research and development capabilities to Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, to address customers? needs to further innovate the supply chain. Dematic?s new Vice President of Global Software Development, Pete Devenyi, a former Senior Vice President of Enterprise Software
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - According to a new mobile phone forecast from the International Data Corp., more than 1.25 billion smartphones will be shipped worldwide in 2014, representing a 23.8 percent increase from the 1.01 billion units shipped in 2013. Looking ahead, total volumes are forecast to reach 1.8 billion units in 2018, resulting in a
SAN MATEO, Calif. - Following a second consecutive quarter of softer than expected demand, International Data Corporation has lowered its worldwide tablet plus 2-in-1 forecast for 2014 to 233.1 million units. The new Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker forecast represents a 6.5 percent year-over-year growth rate, which is well below the 12.1 percent growth rate previously
SAN FRANCISCO - Not only is the National Security Agency scooping up vast troves of data on the American public, it's also sharing that data with other US government agencies. The NSA has granted access across "nearly two dozen" agencies to data on "more than 850 billion records" that covers more than 30 different kinds
SAN FRANCISCO - Google is taking unprecedented steps to show its cloud, business, and education customers that data protection is its top priority. To prove its commitment, Google is making the details of an independent security audit and of a security compliance certificate available to the public for the first time on its Google Enterprise
NEW YORK - The scope of last week?s computer attack against JPMorgan Chase and at least one other bank appears to be much larger than initially reported. In addition to possibly affecting seven financial organizations, instead of two as originally reported, some bank records at JPMorgan were altered and possibly deleted, reported CNN, citing unnamed