DETROIT – A new report says job demand for advanced manufacturing occupations has increased by 13 percent over the past year, and by 63 percent over the past four years, with nearly 33,000 job postings in the second quarter of 2017. The new report from Detroit-based LIFT - Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow - shows 2017
GRAND RAPIDS – Supply Chain Technology company Dematic has signed a global agreement with AutoStore that will enable Dematic to expand its omni-channel integrated solution offering throughout the globe. Dematic will design, configure, engineer, install and support AutoStore as a sub-system within an overall Dematic solution or as a standalone piece-picking system. "The Dematic suite
MUSKEGON - Researchers at Grand Valley State University's Robert B. Annis Water Resources Institute will be able to investigate topics that government funding programs are typically not willing to take on, thanks to a new endowed fund created by Allen and Helen Hunting. The Huntings initiated the Allen I. and Helen J. Hunting Research and Innovation Fund
ANN ARBOR - A tool that makes large databases work smarter, not harder, could unlock the potential of big data to drive medical research, inform business decisions and speed up a slew of other applications that today are mired in a worldwide data glut. University of Michigan researchers developed software called Verdict that enables existing
ANN ARBOR - Online Tech has released SprawlGuard protection services, created to track and optimize public cloud spending, the No. 1 concern among mature cloud users, according to RightScale. Clients who use Microsoft Azure can define precise cost centers and then see advanced usage analysis on a daily basis to get alerts and predictions on their total
DETROIT – A multi-year technology partnership with Comcast will deliver multi-terabit network capabilities to Little Caesars Arena and the rest of The District Detroit, making it the largest, most technologically advanced mixed-use development in the United States. Comcast, whose multi-year network investment in The District Detroit is upward of $11 million, will provide video, voice
DETROIT – Challenge Detroit, a yearlong leadership development program dedicated to attracting and retaining talent in Detroit, announced its 2017-2018 class of Fellows and the host companies that will employ them over the next year. Challenge Detroit invites leaders from Detroit, the Metro area, and across the country to live, work, play, give and lead
ANN ARBOR - Cancer cells obtained from a blood test may be able to predict how early-stage lung cancer patients will fare, a team from the University of Michigan has shown. This information could be used to determine which patients are most likely to benefit from additional therapies to head off the spread of the
DETROIT - There will be a new wrinkle at the North American International Auto Show in January. A business-to-business and business-to-industry connection platform, called AutoMobili-D, will showcase connected and autonomous vehicle development in Michigan. The announcement came Thursday from the NAIAS and the Michigan Economic Development Corp. “Last year was a great inaugural event of
ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan researcher Silvia Lindtner has received one of the first Convergence awards from the National Science Foundation. Lindtner, U-M assistant professor of information, will receive one of the 23 inaugural awards for work to address societal challenges pertaining to work at the human-technology frontier. The amount awarded is $99,185.
