DETROIT — Is the Motor City ready to ditch the car dealer? Phoenix, Ariz.-based Carvana aims to find out, at least when it comes to used cars. The service launched in Michigan, allowing Detroit-area residents to search through the 7,000-plus vehicle inventory on Carvana.com, finance, purchase and schedule home delivery of their vehicle as soon
ANN ARBOR — The San Diego battery industry consultant PlugVolt LLC will hold its 2017 Battery Seminar in July in Ann Arbor. The event will feature experts from automotive and grid power storage manufacturers, industry suppliers, and battery manufacturers. The first day of the event will focus on electrochemistry, with presentations on the latest advances in
LANSING — Liquid Web has appointed Jeff King, former senior vice president and general manager of hosting and security at GoDaddy, to the company board of directors. Liquid Web is a $100 million managed hosting provider. “We admire what Jeff did with the GoDaddy Pro brand, and we look forward to his contributions to our business
BENTON HARBOR — Whirlpool Corp., the Benton Harbor-based appliance manufacturer, announced it had filed a “safeguard petition” with the United States International Trade Commission. The company said the petition is the next step in what it called “ongoing efforts of Samsung and LG to evade U.S. trade laws.” The U.S. government has twice found that
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
WARREN - Thousands of middle and high school students are expected at Macomb Community College's South Campus in Warren Dec. 2 and 3 for the college's annual RET Days - Robotics, Engineering and Technology. Companies and organizations are still being sought to participate by operating hands-on engineering and robotics activities at the event. To read
HOUGHTON - Washington Monthly magazine's newly released College Guide ranked Michigan Technological University seventh in the nation for its ROTC program and 15th for faculty receiving significant research grants. The magazine's latest rankings also placed Michigan Tech in the top 25 percent of all national universities and the top 18 percent for students earning bachelor's
SOUTHFIELD - The Engineering Society of Detroit will again offer its proven Principles & Practice of Engineering (PE Part II) Exam Review Course this fall. And this year, for the first time, current holders of the Professional Engineer designation in Michigan can take some of the courses � la carte to meet their continuing education
CARLETON - Members of The Engineering Society of Detroit enjoyed a tour of the Guardian Industries Inc. glass plant in Carleton Thursday afternoon. The plant, built in 1970, is capable of producing up to about 1,000 tons of float glass a day on its two lines. It employs just over 400 and operates 24 hours
