DETROIT - Techstars Mobility has announced their next class of tech startups aiming to disrupt the transportation space. Last year’s class included companies like SPLT who have expanded regionally and nationally, bringing ride sharing to corporations through their technology platform. The twelve startups in this year’s class will work intensively over the three-month program at Ford
ROYAL OAK - Irma Clark, Sr. Director, Market Strategy and Development at Comcast Business, Heartland Region, talks about connections through mobile will be three-fourths of total connections in the world in a few years. Comcast also announced more than 700 outdoor Comcast Wi-Fit hotspots in the metro Detroit area. Comcast Business customers in metro Detroit
DETROIT – The Internet of Things is ushering in a new era of connected devices as part of building and energy management systems for residential and commercial buildings. To help the Mobile Monday Detroit audience understand the advances being made in this field, experts from Powerley, iRule and MadDog Ventures will join us to share
DETROIT - In Detroit over 2,000 attendees are enjoying a free week of events for Detroit Startup Week, happening today through the end of the week. Bill Ford and Mayor Mike Duggan kicked off the event earlier today talking about the city’s period of reinvention and what that means for big companies like Ford. Bill Ford
CUPERTINO - A new iPhone diagnostic app - aimed to reveal if your device had been infected by malware - has been given the cold shoulder by Apple. Released little more than a week ago, an app dubbed System and Security Info aimed to deliver core details about your iPhone, including your CPU, memory and
WASHINGTON DC - US regulators want to know how mobile phone makers and wireless carriers handle security vulnerabilities and why fixes seem to take so long. The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission on Monday sent letters to fourteen companies, asking for details about how they release security updates. The FCC sent letters
ANN ARBOR - A pioneering study of worldwide sleep patterns combines math modeling, mobile apps and big data to parse the roles society and biology each play in setting sleep schedules. The study, led by University of Michigan mathematicians, used a free smartphone app that reduces jetlag to gather robust sleep data from thousands of
GRAND RAPIDS - From helping members, to producing or attending events, to producing podcasts and much more - the work of MTAM's Ambassadors across the state is far-reaching and varied, and in this podcast two of MTAM's Ambassadors, Savita Monroe and Melissa Birnie - who also happen to be the producers of the Michigan Mobile Musings
SOUTHFIELD - P3 Automotive, a global consulting, engineering and testing services company, christened its new Mobility Innovation Center on Wednesday at which the company announced plans to hire 100 more employees by year’s end. P3 already employs more than 120 people in Michigan, up 60 percent from the beginning of 2015. The company has more
DETROIT - No joke – April 1, is the last day to register for the Global Automotive & Mobility Innovation Challenge. The finals are scheduled for April 12 at the SAE World Congress in Detroit's Cobo Center. The program was co-founded with MI Innovation Alliance and SAE International (Society Automotive Engineers). There are dozens of
