ROYAL OAK - Every business needs to protect its technology, and some use patents to do so. Problem is a group of businesses commonly called patent trolls are literally using patent law to extort money from businesses by threatening to tie them up in court over alleged patent infringement. On the episode of M2 TechCast,
ROYAL OAK - Kelli Ellsworth Etchison from the mid-Michigan credit union LAFCU highlights the cool tech used, including a drive-up, interactive teller machine, on this edition of M2 TechCast. The credit union was started 80 years ago by Oldsmobile. Now LAFCU has a state charter and serves anyone who lives, works, worships or attends school in 11 counties.
GRAND RAPIDS - Mobile/Wireless (connected) technologies today are being utilized by nearly every industry to increase productivity and profitability; and contrary to popular opinion, these technologies are creating jobs in Michigan - LOTS OF THEM! To help facilitate this continued expansion into more industries, and the creation of a wide variety of jobs at all
DETROIT - It’s hard to believe but Dr. Dean Krauskopf, host of WJR’s Gardening Show, and our long time expert neighbor on WJR, is leaving for the fall and winter months. God willing he will return in Spring 2017 after the NCAA Final Four champs are crowned (he’s still holding out hope for MSU his
ROYAL OAK - In ITInTheD Episode 159 Bob and Dave hosted some really cool conversations. They learned more about what the Michigan Economic Development Corporation can offer startups, how Delphinus Medical Technologies used those programs and is now getting ready to hopefully revolutionize the way breast cancer detection is done, and then closed out the night with Billy
LANSING - Michael Rogers, vice president communications for the Small Business Association of Michigan, talks with business coach and consultant Tom Borg about dealing with the mistakes you make when running a small business, developing and implementing good customer service policies, the value of proactively addressing change in your small business and how to implement
ROYAL OAK - Attorney Enrico Schaefer, founder of DroneLaw.Pro, explains how on Aug. 29 the new drone regulations known as Part 107 will be implemented by the Federal Aviation Administration - and how you can become a drone pilot. Part 107 is how the FAA plans to get a better handle on the tens of
ROYAL OAK - Mark Becker, a partner at C/D/H, said his company has won a lot of awards lately, the 101 Best Companies To Work For, an employee-nominated award, for the fourth year in a row. C/D/H also has been named as one of the top 200 Microsoft Partners in the United States this year,
ROYAL OAK - Rachele Downs, Vice President of Entrepreneurial Strategies at Inform, interviews Christina York, CEO of ALTality, who developed the proof of concept for her augmented reality company in November 2014 at a Detroit Startup Weekend. She won first place, gaining her entry to the global competition, where ALTality was named one of the
ROYAL OAK - Michael Lomonaco, Director of Marketing and Communications for Open Systems Technologies (OST), joins us on M2 TechCast to help celebrate the company's 20th year in business, and its fourth year in Detroit. OST specializes in business transformation, centered around custom software development, design and data analytics, as well as the Internet of
