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Detroit’s Own Rachel Konrad Now PR Boss At Impossible Foods

ANN ARBOR - Former Free Press Auto Writer Rachel Konrad reflects on a 25-year communications career that has led her to run worldwide communications for Impossible Foods, the vegetable meat sustitute that Burger King sells as the Impossible Whopper nationwide. The Impossible Foods Mission Statement: We’ve been eating meat since we lived in caves. And

By |2020-11-19T19:23:31-05:00November 19th, 2020|Business, mitechtv|

AirBnB Class Action Lawsuit Update With Attorney Enrico Schaefer

ANN ARBOR - Traverse Legal Principal Enrico Schaefer updates the latest news on the class action lawsuit he has filed against AirBnb on behalf of hosts who allege they have been cheated out of deposit refunds triggered largely by reservation cancellations from the COVID-19 pandemic. https://youtu.be/1eRrjVJeNTw   The Players: Airbnb, Inc., Airbnb Payments, Inc, and Airbnb Payments

By |2020-11-13T17:34:11-05:00November 13th, 2020|Business, mitechtv, News|

Nine Years After The Litecoin Fork: A Look Back

DETROIT - Nine years ago, almost to the day, Litecoin was formed after a fork off of the Bitcoin blockchain. It’s original premise was to become the cryptocurrency of choice to make everyday purchases. The reason for this was the lethargic processing times of Bitcoin which threatened to make it irrelevant since it would be

By |2026-02-27T09:19:16-05:00October 7th, 2020|Business|

Kathleen Norton-Schock, Brian Wassom, Tech Legal Issues Update

ANN ARBOR - Diva Tech Talks' Kathleen Norton-Schock, and Warner Norcross + Judd's Brian Wassom discuss focusing on Social Media Channels, the law and the First Amendment. Brian also delves into hot issues that could result in litigation around newer technologies in the future. https://youtu.be/gRW7z7DxOIo Diva Tech Talk is a specialized communication channel highlighting women

By |2020-08-27T17:57:32-04:00August 27th, 2020|Business, mitechtv, Social Media|

West Michigan Industrial Economy Flips To Positive, But Manufacturers More Cautious

GRAND RAPIDS — The West Michigan industrial economy has flipped back to positive, but manufacturers are much more cautious,, local business leaders said in data collected during the last two weeks of February. The survey's index of business improvement (new orders) rebounded to +7 from -9. The production index edged up to +2 from -2. The

By |2020-03-16T08:38:56-04:00March 15th, 2020|Business|

New Study Reveals What Makes Girls and Women Enter – and Stay – In Technology

SOUTHFIELD - In its drive to make Michigan the No. 1 state for women in technology, the nonprofit Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation launched a multi-stakeholder research study to understand the state of girls and women in technology – what drives them, what challenges them and what makes them stay. The results provide

By |2020-03-16T09:22:07-04:00March 15th, 2020|Business, Entrepreneurs|

Proven Ways To Increase Your Website Conversion

Summary: Your competitors are converting their website visitors. How effective is your website? Do you know how many website visitors you get each month? How many of them contact you? Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) on your target lead generation web pages is an important marketing process. Marketing optimization and Technical optimization are important factors of