LANSING - The loss of connection to a mainframe computer knocked out computer systems at all Department of State branch offices starting about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, leaving those in line before the close of business at 5 p.m. having to return a different day to complete their business. The connection was restored overnight, resolving the
PLYMOUTH - Sandbox Industries, a Chicago-based venture capital firm, is interested in any company that is strategically relevant to health insurance within the healthcare IT and tech-enabled services space. Sandbox is interested in working with MichBio members in the following investment areas: Complex Care Management: New models to manage chronic disease patients and high cost
DETROIT - Social media keeps expanding and its time for us to help you catch up with the latest trends. Sheri Kam joins us once again to help explain some of the most recent tools that have been added to the toolbox for those who want to explore new ways of keeping in touch personally and
LANSING - Many of the region's marketing professionals will gather at Digital Summit Detroit, Sept. 22-23, to discuss the latest trends and trajectory of arguably the most transformative field of business. The summit will be held at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit. The Michigan Film & Digital Media Office is a headlining
FERNDALE - So we got brave and dove through the traffic and chaos of Arts, Beats and Eats to get to the back room of the Blackfinn for episode 108 of our weekly live podcast. We were joined by Morgan, the organizer of Youmacon, as well as a few of our fellow Podcast Detroit shows
HOUGHTON - Fall 2015 enrollment at Michigan Technological University is 7,238, the highest the school has seen in more than 30 years. Female enrollment is at a record high, with women making up 26.9 percent of the student body. Female enrollment in the College of Engineering rose to 26.7 percent, and the number of
DETROIT - IT In The D's next Pink Slip Party event is scheduled for September 17 at The Majestic Theater, where as many as a thousand people show up, including over a hundred and fifty recruiters, tons of people specifically looking for jobs, and a whole bunch of folks just looking to meet people in
DETROIT - With Labor Day past, get ready for Techonomy Detroit next Tuesday at Wayne State University - the fourth annual deep dive into the many ways tech is changing everything in our companies, our work, our cities, and our country. Today the changes come too fast for us not to study them constantly. So
SOUTHFIELD - Two veteran technology observers in Michigan are launching an Internet radio show this Monday, Sept. 14. The M Squared Techcast will premier at 3 p.m. Monday on the Podcast Detroit internet radio network, http://www.podcastdetroit.com. The show will be hosted by longtime Michigan tech journalists Mike Brennan and Matt Roush. Brennan has covered technology
EAST LANSING - A team of researchers, including some from Michigan State University, is making a smart material smarter in order to make a better antenna. Using a series of grants from the National Science Foundation, the team is manipulating a material known as vanadium dioxide, or VO2, making it useable in a size that