GRAND RAPIDS ? Israeli medical device start-ups will be traveling to Michigan on October 16 looking for local partners, university collaborators and private funding. The Trendlines Group in partnership with OurCrowd will be heading back to Michigan for a day-long road show that starts in Grand Rapids and finishes in Ann Arbor. ?It?s an opportunity
LANSING - In a decision that would draw hundreds of "likes" if posted on Facebook, the Michigan Senate has decided to open up its WiFi network to allow users access to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and drop most other restrictions that had severely limited what sites users could visit. The Senate has
LANSING - The release early Wednesday of a report on expected monthly insurance rates on the federal health care exchange, which will begin accepting enrollment on Tuesday, showed that monthly rates in Michigan will be slightly less than the national average, and the news drew praise from supporters of the controversial Patient Protection and Affordable
ANN ARBOR ? The Southeast Center for Integrated Metabolomics has been awarded a five-year, $9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. IROA Technologies, formerly NextxGen Metabolomics, is a founding member along with the University of Florida. With the grant funding, the SECIM is developing an integrated metabolomics service to provide highquality data, user-friendly
SAN FRANCISCO - Teenagers in California worried that their online posts might jeopardize their future opportunities have gained a measure of recourse in the form of an online "eraser button." Legislation signed Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown will require Web sites, apps, and online services geared toward minors to offer, by 2015, the option of
SAN FRANCISCO - An illegal service that sells personal data on any U.S. resident, which can then be used for identity theft, hacked into servers at several major data aggregators including LexisNexis and Dun & Bradstreet, according to a report. The service's customers have, the report said, "spent hundreds of thousands of dollars looking up
DETROIT - Covisint Corp. began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on Thursday, opening at $12.77 a share, before closing at $12.31 ? the first initial public offering of a Detroit tech company since Syntel went public in 1997. The former Compuware Corp. subsidiary?s stock put up for sale represented 17.6 percent of the
TROY - Billhighway, developer of cloud-based automation software that simplifies finance and fundraising for nonprofits, has added a new client, the Boys & Girls Club of Troy. The Club provides a platform for young people in the tri-county metropolitan Detroit area that allows them to develop into self-reliant, responsible, contributing members of the community. ?One
KALAMAZOO ? Medical device giant Stryker has agreed to buy Mako Surgical Corp. for $1.65 billion to add technology for robot-assisted surgery. Investors in Mako will receive $30 a share from Stryker, the companies said Wednesday in a statement. The offer carries an 86 percent premium over Fort Lauderdale-based Mako's closing price Tuesday. Mako, founded
GRAND RAPIDS - Van Andel Global Trade Center is hosting a half-day event Oct. 17 to review opportunities in China, Canada, Brazil, Mexico and the UAE and hear real life success stories from Michigan companies. SPEAKERS: Ning Shao, Director, Michigan China Center Nancy Ward, Director, Michigan Canada Center Claudia Tomaselli, Director, Michigan Brazil Center Efren