GRAND RAPIDS — TGW Systems Inc. USA, the subsidiary of the Austrian material handling systems manufacurer, has announced a new mechatronics paid apprenticeship program, developed in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Labor and the Michigan Department of Talent and Economic Development. Company officials said the apprenticeship program would focus on the underemployed and military
KALAMAZOO — Western Michigan University is expanding educational opportunities in cybersecurity under a new collaboration with Ann Arbor-based Merit Network Inc., a nonprofit organization providing high-performance computer networking and related services to educational, government, health care, and nonprofit organization. Under the collaboration, WMU will offer noncredit, online professional development courses in cybersecurity training. Registration for
PORTAGE — Pfizer Inc. is the first manufacturer to take advantage of the Good Jobs for Michigan incentive program signed into law a year ago by Gov. Rick Snyder. The pharmaceutical giant said today it will invest $465 million into a two-story, 400,000-square-foot building at its Portage campus, which will serve as a sterile drug manufacturing facility.
GRAND RAPIDS - By making a significant investment in cybersecurity, West Michigan manufacturers can avoid having their sensitive information getting into the wrong hands. Just ask Jessica Dore, a principal in technology risk management in Grand Rapids at accounting and consulting firm Rehmann LLC. Dore works on the firm’s Corporate Investigative Services unit that performs cybersecurity
TROY - Walsh College has added three professionals to its Information Technology-Decision Sciences Department leadership team with decades of diverse experience to help prepare its graduates for careers in cybersecurity, automotive cybersecurity, business information systems and more. Joining the team are Dave Schippers, Thomas Petz and Christopher Heiden. “We’ve developed curriculum that blends academic
ROYAL OAK - When does one plus one equal three? When Rehmann acquired Grandville-based Trivalent Group, a top 100 managed IT services provider, in April. One of the major players in this acquisition was James Carpp, Director of Consulting at Rehmann. He provides the back story on this segment of M2 TechCast. Carpp said Rehmann
ROYAL OAK - Lisa Diggs announces this year's 10th anniversary Buy Michigan Now coming to Northville Aug. 3-5. Mike Brennan has headlines from MiTechNews. Kathleen Norton Schock announces new awards for Diva Tech Talk and Capt. Gary Baker talks about the upcoming episode of Shark Week filmed aboard his Shared Adventure in Florida. To listen,
ROYAL OAK - Former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Vito Ciaravino, a Partner Warner Norcross + Judd LLC, guides clients through the patent process by preparing and prosecuting patents in the United States and abroad by working with clients in the procurement, licensing, management and review of patents. He joins M2 TechCast co-hosts Mike
ROYAL OAK - A dozen Russian military security agents - more commonly called the GRU - were indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller earlier this month for spearfishing attacks against the hundreds of staff members at the Democratic National Committee in 2016 is unusual in that it discloses the methods used by the National Security
WASHINGTON DC - Hackers working for Russia were able to gain access to the control rooms of US electric utilities last year, allowing them to cause blackouts, federal officials tell the Wall Street Journal. The hackers -- working for a state-sponsored group previously identified as Dragonfly or Energetic Bear -- broke into utilities' isolated networks by
