DETROIT - AT&T and Samsung Electronics America on June 10 will offer customers a water- and shatter-resistant Samsung Galaxy S7 active, and also will throw in the Samsung Gear S2, the first smartwatch with NumberSync, for free. Beginning on Friday, you can purchase the Galaxy S7 active at www.att.com/galaxys7active or at AT&T stores. You can
GRAND RAPIDS - Alex Gonzalez returns June 15 from Google to talk about Generation C, a group of digital users who thrive on four principles: Connection, Community, Creation and Curation. Brands who understand this new generation, their passions, and their needs, can create a stronger connection with potential buyers. This presentation will focus on getting
FARMINGTON HILLS - Great Lakes Angels will be reviewing the Michigan Venture Capital Association Research Report on Angel Investing and reviewing three exciting companies that have been selected to present June 14 at UHY Advisors. Registration begins at 5 pm, followed at 5:30 pm by the presentations. Presenting companies include: MiSyren www.misyren.com Formerly known
GRAND RAPIDS - Charter Capital Partners announced it has closed the over-subscribed $5 million MAF Opportunity Fund with investment commitments coming from institutional, family office, and individual investors. The Fund was organized to invest in elite companies from its predecessor fund, Michigan Accelerator Fund I. John Kerschen and Dale Grogan, both managing directors of Charter
BIRMINGHAM - Seven technology-oriented women received scholarships or laptop computers at the Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation’ Scholarship Recognition event. The MCWT Foundation has awarded over $928,000 to further the educational pursuits of 124 students throughout the past 11 years. “Retention of women in tech majors in college is below 10 percent;
ROYAL OAK - M2 Techcast on June 6 will be hosting Automation Alley COO Tom Kelly with an update on the regional tech networking groups, Attorney Keith Schonberger, of Young Basile, provides an intellectual property update, NextEnergy explains more about its Smart Cities digital design competition. M2 Techcast is taking a break on Memorial Day
NOVI - Goggle announced Wednesday that is Self-Driving Car Project will open a 53,000 square foot development center in Novi, following earlier announcements by Uber it would work with Toyota and General Motors with Lyft. The rush towards self-driving vehicles is accelerating. John Krafcik, CEO of the project, announced the move in a Google+ posting.
VASTERAS, Sweden - The internationally oriented Robotdalen Innovation Award is directed at entrepreneurs, innovators, start-ups as well as graduate and postgraduate students from all over the world who have ideas, concepts or solutions with commercial potential and breakthrough technology, addressing the following fields of robotics and automation: • Industrial robotics and automation – especially
DETROIT - Forbes magazine came out with its annual richest person list and Dan Gilbert was tops in Michigan (and 31st nationwide) with an estimated worth of $5.1 billion. Gilbert's Quicken Loans, the nation's largest online mortgage lender, is now hawking Rocket Mortgages, a new Web and smartphone app to speed the approval process. Critics
FARMINGTON HILLS - Great Lakes Angels is hosting a workshop on June 14 to teach entrepreneurs, investors and consultants how to do valuation of early stage companies, part of the Angel Resource Institute education program on angel investing. This is probably the most important question an investor and entrepreneur will ask and answer before executing
