TRAVERSE CITY - A clone of A2 New Tech Meetup, a monthly pitch night in Ann Arbor, has sprung up in this northern Michigan resort town. TC New Tech will meet again on Oct. 4 in downtown Traverse City to listen as five entrepreneurs get five minutes each to make their case about why their
DETROIT - DTE Energy announced Thursday it will invest up to $1.5 billion in gas-turbine plants to replace coal-fired plants that the utility plans to retire by 2023. The gas-turbine plants will provide approximately 1,000 megawatts of energy, enough to power 850,000 homes. One project is expected to be located on existing DTE property adjacent to
WARREN – Six early-stage companies from Oakland and Wayne counties will receive $375,000 in funding from the Innovation Fund Macomb Community College, Powered by JPMorgan Chase & Co. This initiative provides mentoring and capital to early-stage businesses, as well as learning opportunities for Macomb Community College's students. . “The Macomb Innovation Fund is
GRAND BLANC – Larry Bossman has joined Spud Software as the new Sales Director. He reports to Spud CEO Derek Sommer. Bossman is a highly accomplished and dynamic B2B Sales professional with almost two decades of successful new business development, competitive market expansion and sales leadership experience. He was named a Top Sales Producer with
DETROIT - University of Detroit Mercy’s new Center for Automotive Systems Engineering Education has received a major boost with a $1 million gift from William L. Kozyra (Class of 1980). “There is no doubt in my mind that today I have a fabulous career and life as a result of the great education I received
ANN ARBOR - Two companies that lead in smartphone satisfaction also lead the personal computer industry in customer satisfaction, a new survey reports. Apple remains the overall leader in the PC industry, unchanged at 84, but Samsung leaps 6 percent to 83 in its second year of American Customer Satisfaction index on a 100-point scale.
TROY - Pavan Muzumdar has been hired by new Automation Alley Executive Director Tom Kelly to serve as chief operating officer for Michigan’s leading technology business association. Muzumdar comes to Automation Alley with an extensive background in organizational management and is the creator of the organizational tool icube, a collection of simple, effective techniques and
ROYAL OAK - Fun episode as Bob and Dave from ITInTheD.Com were joined by Pink Slip Party sponsors, Conexess, along with the folks from Clarity Newhouse and New Mind Group…and somehow Randy snuck in the studio, again. Conexess can be found at: http://conexess.com/ Clarity Newhouse is at: http://claritynewhouse.com/ New Mind Group is at: http://newmindgroup.com/ To listen, click on http://www.itinthed.com/19069/episode-163-conexess-clarity-newhouse-new-mind-group/
TROY - Early bird tickets for DetroitDevDay 2016 are now on sale. The conference is scheduled for Nov. 12 at United Shore in Troy. Use the special discount code PastAttendee and you'll get an additional $10 off the early bird ticket price. Godfrey Nolan will be giving the keynote. Nolan is the noted author of several
ANN ARBOR – Jeff Zhang, an undergraduate at the University of Michigan in the School of Information, also is an entrepreneur. He’s mentored by Nancy Benovich Gilby, the school’s Ehrenberg Director of Entrepreneurship, a serial entrepreneur herself who has guided eight companies over her career to successful exits. Zhang is developing a project that comes
