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DETROIT - There will be a new wrinkle at the North American International Auto Show in January. A business-to-business and business-to-industry connection platform, called AutoMobili-D, will showcase connected and autonomous vehicle development in Michigan. The announcement came Thursday from the NAIAS and the Michigan Economic Development Corp. “Last year was a great inaugural event of
ANN ARBOR - Despite that most web traffic today comes from smartphones and tablets, the mobile web remains inconveniently slow. Even on fast 4G networks, a page takes 14 seconds to load on average—an eternity in today's connected world. A team of computer science researchers at the University of Michigan and MIT has found a
LANSING — More than $561 million in new investment with 1,500 jobs and two community revitalization projects are among projects approved Tuesday by the Michigan Strategic Fund. The projects include investments by Lear Corporation, LG Electronics and Penske Logistics that will generate a total of $158.8 million capital investments and create 1,130 jobs. * Southfield-based
DETROIT - On Wednesday, Comcast Corporation announced that its Internet Essentials program, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive high-speed Internet adoption program, has connected more than 13,000 low-income households benefitting more than 52,000 Detroiters. Across Michigan, which ranks seventh among all states for Internet Essentials, 50,000 low-income households have been connected, benefitting nearly 200,000 Michiganders.
ANN ARBOR - In the last three years, there has been a 20 percent increase in the number of venture-capital-backed startups in Michigan, a new survey shows, with West Michigan companies making up a third of them. The seed, startup, early stage and growth companies represented equally with approximately a third in West Michigan at
SAN JOSE, Ca. - Somewhere between the 14th and 15th floors in a concrete stairwell, Bryan Salesky pauses, searching for the right words to explain his mission for the foreseeable future. He wants to give cars the eyes, ears, and brains they need to operate without humans. And he wants to do it for Ford
FLINT TOWNSHIP – Baker College has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant of nearly $512,000 to advance photonics and laser education at Baker College and in Michigan through June 2020. The goal, according to Anca Sala, Ph.D., Baker College dean of the College of Engineering, is to educate more students to become qualified photonics,
ROYAL OAK - On M2 TechCast today, Co-host Mike Brennan will call from the Netherlands where he interviewed Henk Ovink, the government promoter of Dutch expertise on rising water and climate change. Also on the show will be Kathleen Norton-Schock who will be interviewing Theresa Ancick, data warehouse consultant and manager of Business Information Service
ROYAL OAK - Can’t get to Tennessee to see the eclipse of the sun on Aug. 21? Don’t worry, the Michigan Science Center has got you covered. CEO Tonya Matthews, PhD, said on this segment of M2 TechCast that the Detroit center near Wayne State University’s campus will safely project the eclipse in the Toyota
ROYAL OAK - You may not have heard of Mackevision before, but you’ve seen its Computer-Generated Images in many TV auto commercials and in the world’s most popular TV show, Game of Thrones. Mackevision employs in Troy 500 specialists, experts in product visualization, animation, visual effects for films and interactive applications. Find out more in
