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DNR Offers Sportsmen Interactive Online Mapping Tool

Find Fall Hunting Spots With DNR's Interactive Online Mapping Tool LANSING - With fall hunting seasons under way in Michigan, the Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters and outdoor enthusiasts that Mi-HUNT – a Web-based, interactive mapping application – can help plan their next hunting or outdoor adventure. Mi-HUNT allows users to view and navigate

By |2015-10-21T09:58:49-04:00October 20th, 2015|Featured, New Products / Contracts|

Survey: 75 Percent Of Southeast Michigan Companies Have Implemented Eureka Technologies

DETROIT – Seventy five percent of Southeast Michigan businesses surveyed have implemented so-called Eureka! Technologies - from new computer installations, to creating new patentable products - within the past year. With each new technological change or innovation, the workforce has been forced to adapt and respond to stay competitive in the new economy, contends a

By |2015-10-20T20:10:46-04:00October 20th, 2015|Entrepreneurs, Featured, News|

FCC Attorney Headlines Grand Rapids Cyber Security Conference

  GRAND RAPIDS - Federal Trade Commission Attorney Christopher Panek is the keynote speaker at the 2nd Annual Grand Rapids Cyber Security Conference October 21 at Grand Valley State University. Trivalent Group, the Better Business Bureau of Western Michigan, and the West Michigan Cyber Security Consortium are hosting the conference. Attorney Panek, who will speak on

By |2015-10-19T22:25:22-04:00October 19th, 2015|Cyber Defense, Featured|

7 US Companies Hacked By Chinese Since Promise Not To Attack US

WASHINGTON DC - Seven US companies have been attacked by government-associated Chinese hackers in the three weeks since the US and China announced a pact that banned government spying on companies, a US security firm said Monday. The hacks by "actors we have affiliated with the Chinese government" targeted five technology companies and two pharmaceutical

By |2015-10-19T22:10:47-04:00October 19th, 2015|Cyber Defense, Featured|

Adobe’s Flash Player Getting Critical Security Update This Week

  SAN FRANCISCO - Adobe confirmed it has discovered a new vulnerability in Flash Player that affects every version running on the Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems. Adobe said that it will issue an out-of-cycle security update this week to address the software plug-in's vulnerability, which it warned could crash and potentially allow an

By |2015-10-19T22:10:47-04:00October 19th, 2015|Cyber Defense, Featured|

Mistakes In Flint Water Change Mean Leadership Change At DEQ

LANSING – Heads will soon be rolling at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality where officials failed to follow proper treatment and testing protocols when Flint moved from the Detroit water system to drawing from the Flint River and took too long to fix the problem once they discovered their error. Environmental Quality Director Dan Wyant said

By |2015-10-19T22:11:19-04:00October 19th, 2015|Clean Update, Featured, Politics|

National Venture Capital Investment For First 3 Quarters Higher Than Full Year Totals For 17 Of Past 20 Years

WASHINGTON, DC – Venture capitalists invested $16.3 billion in 1,070 deals in the third quarter of 2015, according to the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. The $47.2 billion invested in the first three quarters of 2015 is higher than each

By |2015-10-16T11:18:27-04:00October 16th, 2015|Entrepreneurs, Featured|

Study: Are Retailers Really Ready For Internet of Things?

BOSTON - Retailers know the Internet of Things (IoT) is coming and will bring significant changes. Dealing with these changes, well, that they haven’t figured out yet. A new study from RSR Research (“The Internet of Things in Retail – Great Expectations”) 42 percent of surveyed retailers strongly agree and another 38 percent agree that

By |2015-10-15T17:53:02-04:00October 15th, 2015|Featured, Internet, Mobile MI|

Mobile Technology Association Of Michigan Offers Developers Chance to Win Great Prizes

DETROIT - Which IoT platforms are competing with Apple and Google? Which are the most popular cloud APIs? Does mobile, IoT or cloud development pay better? These are just some of the questions that our friends at VisionMobile tackle in their latest Developer Economics research. Developers can take their 10-minute National Trends survey and help

By |2015-10-15T17:35:16-04:00October 15th, 2015|Entrepreneurs, Featured, Mobile MI|

10th Annual LTU RoboParade Celebrates Halloween Oct. 24

SOUTHFIELD - Students from elementary through high school will demonstrate their ability to design, program and build autonomous (self-driving) robots at Lawrence Technological University’s RoboParade on Oct. 24 in the Expo Center on the South Campus of Macomb Community College in Warren. The event is free and open to the public. This year’s parade theme

By |2015-10-15T17:15:19-04:00October 15th, 2015|Autonomous Vehicles, Entrepreneurs, Featured, Science|