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DETROIT - Comcast is providing free access to its Xfinity public Wi-Fi hot spots on Cyber Monday Nov. 28 starting at 6 am for 24 hours. Xfinity WiFi hotspots are available on train platforms, in small businesses, parks and shopping districts. Many of the places consumers will be searching for those Cyber Monday deals. To
ROYAL OAK - OST’s Mike Lomonaco, director of marketing and communications, talks about organizational challenges that the Integrated Solutions Provider is working through on IT projects in a digital transformative world. OST recently did an insight study across leaders, many current accounts and lines of business in Grand Rapids, Detroit and Minneapolis and discovered some
PINCKNEY - Pinckney Community Schools will become the latest Cyber Range Hub - and the only one connected to a high school in Michigan - with its Grand Opening on Dec. 7. The Pinckney Cyber Training Institute will provide high school and college students as well as I.T. professionals a site to take cyber security
YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP - The groundbreaking held Monday for a 335-acre site expected to become a global center for testing connected vehicles was hailed by assembled government leaders as putting Michigan on the forefront of the autonomous car movement. On hand were Gov. Rick Snyder, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, U.S. Sen. Gary Peters and U.S. Sen.
GRAND RAPIDS - Friday Nov. 25 is the last day to nominate your company or another company for the 2017 Michigan Celebrates Small Business Michigan 50 Companies to Watch & Other Small Business Awards. Michigan Celebrates Small Business remains on the forefront of championing small business and fostering the entrepreneurial spirit in Michigan. The MCSB's
LANSING - A program that has provided health insurance to more than 600,000 working persons in the state - and that was approved after a major political struggle - faces an uncertain future with the election of President-elect Donald Trump, but most observers and officials involved in the creation of Healthy Michigan say they expect
DETROIT - Wayne State University’s GO-GIRL (Gaining Options – Girls Investigate Real Life) program, designed to help girls build confidence and career awareness in STEM fields, is now accepting applications for the winter 2017 semester. Application deadline is Dec. 1. GO-GIRL is free and open to a limited number of seventh-grade girls. The Saturday program,
ANN ARBOR - Economists at the University of Michigan announced Friday that Michigan will add on average 45,800 jobs each of the next two years - good news indeed, but slightly more than half the average 70,000 jobs added from 2014 to 2016. In their annual November forecast of Michigan's economy, George Fulton and colleagues
DETROIT - The Workforce Intelligence Network has been awarded a $6 million, four-year grant to train 900 southeast Michigan workers in robotics and automation careers through the Advance Michigan Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Technology Education Collaborative. The funding aligns with southeast Michigan’s White House designation as an Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership area, which prioritizes
DETROIT - David Brophy, PhD, who has been teaching finance at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business since the 1980s, was named the Above and Beyond Award Winner by the Michigan Venture Capital Association. In this video, Brophy, the founder of the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium, which each May attracts hundreds of Venture
