MARQUETTE—Northern Michigan University, Merit Network Inc. and the Michigan Defense Center unveiled the latest addition to the Michigan Cyber Range Network this week at the NMU Cyber Hub Grand Opening. This event included a tour of the new cyber range and a live, virtual Capture the Flag exercise with IT professionals. “The Upper Peninsula Cybersecurity
HOLLAND – The New York City-based private equity firm Crestview Partners announced the sale of Holland-based JR Automation Technologies LLC for $1.425 billion in cash to Hitachi, Ltd. Established in 1980, JR designs, builds, and programs advanced automation systems for the automotive, aerospace, e-commerce and life science industries. It has more than 2,000 employees. Crestview
LANSING–State officials announced this week that the Michigan Agency for Energy has merged into the new Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. MAE, which had been housed under the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, will no longer exist as its own agency. The Michigan Energy Office, which was part of MAE, and MAE’s
ANN ARBOR—Officials of Online Tech, a provider of cloud services, announced that the company has changed its name to Otava. Online Tech was acquired in early 2018 by Schurz Communications Inc., a Mishawaka, Ind.-based company that started in newspapers, and which now includes digital marketing and communications, cloud services, data centers, and broadband data services.
ANN ARBOR—Organizers of the Midwest Growth Capital Symposium announced the ventures that will present at the 38th annual event, which will be held May 14-15 at the Marriott Resort in Ypsilanti. A total of 32 companies actively seeking funding that represent the best of the emerging growth companies across the Midwest will showcase their ventures to an audience of more than
ANN ARBOR—Genomenon Inc., the Ann Arbor-based genomics research information provider, has announced a partnership with Google to make the company’s genomic mutation data available on Google Cloud platform. Genomenon’s Cited Variants Reference (CVR) data will be a public dataset available in BigQuery, Google Cloud’s big data and machine learning data warehouse, for use in genomic applications. The
SOUTHFIELD—ImageSoft Inc., the document management software developer, has introduced CaseShare, software that serves appellate court cases as a stand-alone system or integrated with lower courts’ case and document management systems. The company said the software was the product of collaboration with the Virginia District Court. Officials said the software automates the case assembly process, including
BENTON HARBOR—Whirlpool Corp. officials have released the company’s 2018 Corporate Sustainability Report, highlighting the company’s progress and accomplishments in the 2018 operational year, with particularly strong results in its efforts to reduce the amount of natural resources required in manufacturing its appliances. Milestones and progress outlined in the 2018 Corporate Sustainability Report Summary include: Sustainable
LANSING—Farmers, processors and institutions of higher learning who are interested in Michigan’s newest agricultural crop, industrial hemp, will now have an opportunity to test the waters under the state’s new Industrial Hemp Ag Pilot Program. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development announced the State of Michigan’s Industrial Hemp Ag
ANN ARBOR—The benefits of self-driving cars will likely induce vehicle owners to drive more, and those extra miles could partially or completely offset the potential energy-saving benefits that automation may provide, according to a new University of Michigan study. In the coming years, self-driving cars are expected to yield significant improvements in safety, traffic flow
