DETROIT - What economic slowdown? While national surveys show the pace of economic expansion to be flagging a bit, Detroit-area technology executives are on an IT hiring binge. In the latest biannual Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Forecast and Local Trend Report, 26 percent of CIOs say they plan to add staff to their IT
FERNDALE - Automation Alley Chief Operating Officer Tom Kelly talks about how successful the Southeast Michigan technology network has become, including investing in companies in its 7Cs program. Automation Alley has invested more than $9 million in 19 Michigan advanced manufacturing start-ups to date. Automation Alley also has been tasked with training people without an
SOUTHFIELD - Mike Brennan, MITechNews.Com Editor & Publisher, and Matt Roush, News Director at Lawrence Technological University, were featured on Comcast’s Newsmaker interview series. Brennan and Roush are the co-hosts of M2 (Squared) TechCast that airs live every Monday at 3 pm on the Podcast Detroit Network. Brennan talked about MITechNews.Com and all the changes
SOUTHFIELD - The scientific world was rocked last week by news that researchers had, for the first time, detected gravitational waves — ripples in the very fabric of spacetime itself. Albert Einstein predicted these waves almost exactly 100 years ago — that they would be caused by the collisions of massive objects in space. In
FERNDALE - Amanda Lewan, one of the three members of Diva Tech Talk, appears on M2 TechCast on Monday Feb. 1 at 3 pm to interview Monica Wheat, who runs a non-profit program helping girls get into STEM - called Digerati Girls - and Chritina Mathes, who runs client experience at Rocket Fiber. We’ll also
DETROIT - First of all, the North American International Auto Show really is different this year. A few weeks ago, the tech podcast I co-host with Mike Brennan of Michigan Technology News (www.mitechnews.com) had Max Muncey, NAIAS public relations manager, on as a guest. And Max told us that fully 70 percent of the auto
DETROIT — The Engineering Society of Detroit’s director of communications and public relations, Matt Roush, takes you for a spin around the redesigned show floor of the 2016 North American International Auto Show. To see Matt Roush’s pictures, click on http://techcentury.com/2016/01/11/detroit-auto-show-media-day-1-a-photo-gallery/
FERNDALE - On the Jan. 11 edition of M2 (squared) TechCast, co-host Matt Roush will interview fellow co-host Mike Brennan from the North American International Auto Show press preview days. Also on the show will be Rachel Downs, Vice President, Entrepreneurial Strategies at Inforum and Inforum Center for Leadership, who will be discussing inGAGE, Inforum's
PONTIAC - Nearly 20 members of The Engineering Society of Detroit got a peek at the “next industrial revolution” Thursday with a tour of the 3D printing laboratory of Pontiac-based DASI Solutions. DASI owner and co-founder David Darbyshire gave the members a detailed history of the family-owned business — which now employs four of the
NEWAYGO - Newaygo County was officially certified this week by Connect Michigan as a certified Connected Community. The Newaygo County Technology Planning Team also released a Technology Action Plan to the county commission. “Broadband Internet is crucial to education and commerce,” Jon Schneider, Newaygo city manager, told the commission. “Partners across Newaygo County have shown
