ROCHESTER HILLS - To stay competitive in today’s high-tech business world, Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs) need to keep their IT network up and running. But hiring a Chief Information Officer (CIO) can be beyond many SMBs’ budgets. CIOs can command salaries well over $150,000 a year. Instead of investing heavily in a CIO, organizations
ROYAL OAK - On M2 (Squared) Techcast Monday July 18, Diva Tech Talk professional Kathleen Norton-Schock will interview Tracy-Ann Palmer, Regional Manager, Central Enterprise IT Platform, Cisco, who will discuss how the Internet of Things is Changing the World. Returning to the show will be Robert Tessanne, Red Level Vice President of Cloud & Technology
GRAND RAPIDS - Entrepreneurs who aren’t that tech savvy, but need to know how to speak geek to application developers have a chance to learn how to do that July 28 at a Mobile App Bootcamp scheduled for Grand Valley State University. The workshop is co-hosted by the Michigan Small Business Development Center, the Mobile
DETROIT - A group of community-minded people in Detroit are focusing this summer on how to solve policing problems, certainly a hot topic with violence raging across the country between police and the citizens they have been hired to serve and protect. Design Action Lab, a free program focused on community-driven problem solving, and Bamboo
DETROIT - The deadline to apply for the $80,000 NextChallenge: Smart Cities competition is just two weeks away. Innovators should submit an online concept proposal by 11:59 pm EDT on July 28. The competition is co-hosted by NextEnergy, DENSO, DTE Energy and Wells Fargo - both at the individual innovator and organization level – to
DETROIT - Venture Capital company Fontinalis Partners - who counts William C. Ford Jr. among its partners - closed its $100 million second fund, Fontinalis Capital Partners II, bringing Fontinalis Partners’ total committed capital to $165 million. The money will be used to invest in the best and brightest companies in next-generation mobility - described
AUBURN HILLS - Hackers can get paid a bounty up to $1,500 if they discover potential vehicle cybersecurity vulnerabilities, depending on its impact and severity. That’s the program launched Wednesday by FCA US LLC, the American arm of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. FCA also named the crowdsourced security testing firm Bugcrowd Inc. to manage the program.
AUBURN HILLS - Oakland County’s Tech248 on July 26 will be hosting a program that brings some “nontraditional” talent options for IT companies in Michigan - some are “out of the box” thinking and others are very “bleeding edge” thinking. Speakers include Jennifer Llewellyn, manager, Workforce Development, and Greg Doyle, One Stop Shop Business Center
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation approved five projects through Michigan Tech’s Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization program, which supports the acceleration of commercially viable applied advanced material technologies developed by university researchers. An 11-member oversight committee consisting of venture capitalists, materials experts from various fields and successful entrepreneurs reviewed each project and approved
STAMFORD - Worldwide PC shipments declined 5.2 percent from the second quarter of 2015, the seventh consecutive quarter of PC shipment declines. But Gartner analysts contend the market is showing signs of improvement. All regions except North America experienced a PC shipment decline. The Latin America region was still very weak largely because of political
