DETROIT - At Channel Sales.PRO, CEO Rick Beckers helps technology companies grow using a powerful mix of industry expertise, experienced consultants, and modern sales strategies. In this video, Beckers shows how Channel Sales.PRO helps tech sales and service organizations generate more leads, land new customers, and expand inside their ideal customer profiles—without adding headcount. During
VAN BUREN TWP. — A new proposal for a massive hyperscale data center has emerged in southeast Michigan, adding to a growing list of projects aimed at powering artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. Panattoni Data Center Group wants to develop a data center campus on roughly 280 acres in Van Buren Township, near Belleville in
ANN ARBOR - Zorp Video is an innovation-driven platform that helps organizations capture, manage, and search internal video knowledge. We turn workplace know-how into searchable, shareable insights—accelerating innovation across manufacturing, engineering, and industrial sectors. We’re building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that integrates AI for transcription, search, and chat retrieval. The project demonstrates how video knowledge capture
Michigan $1.47B High-Speed Internet Investment Connects Homes as the state moves forward with its largest broadband expansion to date. Recently, Michigan secured major federal and private funding to expand affordable, high-speed internet statewide. As a result, nearly 200,000 homes, businesses, and institutions will gain reliable connectivity. Ultimately, this investment strengthens access to jobs, healthcare, education,
JACKSON - Consumers Energy expects to spend $5.2 billion on renewables and $8.5 billion on distribution-level reliability and resilience projects through 2029. Through 2035, the company anticipates spending $10 billion for line undergrounding and pole replacement, $10 billion for the commission-approved 10.8 GW of renewables and at least $5 billion for the battery storage and
DETROIT – Long-time tech entrepreneur Rick Beckers joins MITechTV to talk about his latest project, ChannelSales.Pro, a marketplace used by the various stakeholders in the technology industry. These stakeholders are technology vendors, distributors, technology advisors, and the B2B consumers of technology solutions. He’s created a technology marketplace that offers tech product and services from the
DETROIT - In recent weeks, automakers and other companies in the vehicle space are pulling back their investments in electric vehicles, including laying off workers in multiple states. The moves come in the wake of Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which repealed incentives for consumers to buy electric cars. GM in particular is set
LANSING – The Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP) and the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District announced the launch of the $16 million Early Childhood Educator Wage Initiative. The initiative will provide monthly stipends – $200 for part-time and $300 for full-time teachers and assistant teachers – while supporting regional efforts to address
ANN ARBOR – Washtenaw Community College will host Race to Talent to help employers grow their workforce through on-the-job skills training and education partnerships. The free event will be from 9-11 a.m. on Friday, November 14, in the Morris Lawrence Building (Room 101) on the WCC campus, 4800 E. Huron River Drive. Co-sponsored by WCC
LANSING — The Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity today announced applications are now open for Fiscal Year 2026 Cycle 1 of the Going PRO Talent Fund, a statewide grant program that strengthens Michigan’s economy by closing critical skill gaps and building a more competitive workforce. Michigan businesses have until October 30 to apply
