LANSING - Calling all student entrepreneurs and innovators - the Lansing Economic Area Partnership has started its Third Annual Lansing Youth Startup Challenge. LEAP has partnered with 5 Minutes Tops, a “Shark Tank”-like student business idea competition, to offer local “prep” competitions to student entrepreneurs looking to refine their ideas in an effort to compete
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corp. announced Michigan Strategic Fund approval of business expansions, community improvement projects and a Request for Proposals for the redesign of the official Travel Michigan website, Michigan.org. The projects are expected to generate nearly $120.6 million in new investments and create 258 jobs in Michigan. In addition, MSF approved
TROY - Altair announced that Lund Combustion Engineering - LOGE AB - has joined the Altair Partner Alliance, adding its LOGEsoft and LOGEengine software for chemical kinetics modeling and internal combustion engine simulation. “LOGEsoft and LOGEengine are meant to bridge the gap between fundamentals in chemistry and applied engineering,” said Fabian Mauss, CEO at Lund,
DETROIT - The wireless provider T-Mobile says it has fired up its Extended Range LTE service in Detroit and most of Michigan. The 700-megahertz “low band” spectrum carries both T-Mobile’s LTE service farther from cell towers, and deeper into buildings, than previous technologies. T-Mobile has now rolled out the 700 MHz service in 204 metropolitan
WARREN - Five early-stage companies from Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and Wayne counties will receive $300,000 in funding from the Innovation Fund Macomb. The fund is a $2.7 million effort to stimulate economic development and job growth among promising Detroit-area entrepreneurs and next-stage companies with high growth potential. Funding is provided by Macomb Community College’s Strategic
DETROIT — Lean & Green Michigan announced Wednesday that Antrim, Delta and Leelanau County all joined the statewide PACE partnership this month. On Nov. 3, the county commission in the Upper Peninsula’s Delta County voted 5-0 to join the program. Lean & Green Michigan officials say they are already discussing potential PACE projects there and
JACKSON - Baker College says it has upgraded the computer technology laboratory at its Jackson campus and created a “Business Solution Center” to provide resources for the growing number of students in its information technology programs. “In order to offer state-of-the-art IT training, upgrading technology is a constant,” said David Gomez, dean of business and
FERNDALE – Robert McGee, executive director of the Engineering Society of Detroit, talks about the shortage of engineering and technology jobs. To listen, click on https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit/m2techcast-episode-9-robert-mcgee-esd?in=podcastdetroit/sets/m2techcast-on-podcastdetroit
PONTIAC - Nearly 20 members of The Engineering Society of Detroit got a peek at the “next industrial revolution” Thursday with a tour of the 3D printing laboratory of Pontiac-based DASI Solutions. DASI owner and co-founder David Darbyshire gave the members a detailed history of the family-owned business — which now employs four of the
NEWAYGO - Newaygo County was officially certified this week by Connect Michigan as a certified Connected Community. The Newaygo County Technology Planning Team also released a Technology Action Plan to the county commission. “Broadband Internet is crucial to education and commerce,” Jon Schneider, Newaygo city manager, told the commission. “Partners across Newaygo County have shown
