ANN ARBOR - Organizers of the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium Tuesday announced the list of companies that will present at the 37th annual event, which will be held May 15-16 at the Marriott Resort in Ypsilanti. A total of 32 companies, representing the best of the emerging growth companies in the Midwest that are actively
ROYAL OAK - Airfoil’s Senior Vice President, Amy Bryson discusses how the latest tech trends and skills are building the next generation Silicon Valley, outside of California. In this podcast, she explores how technology is changing how business gets done and how businesses are created. This is true for Michigan-based companies, as well as global brands.
ROYAL OAK - Milan Stevanovich, vice president of global strategy for the Detroit Chinese Business Association, discussed the recent Detroit-China Cross Border Investment Summit he hosted at NextEnergy on April 19 that featured a full day focusing on collaborative investment opportunities between the U.S. and China. The TED-style conference emphasized collaborative investment opportunities in the
ROYAL OAK - Oakland County Tech248’s Greg Doyle interviews Yerko Sepluveda, creator of BackBeat, who benefited from the Oakland Entrepreneurial Alliance. BackBeat is a wearable, portable rumble pack and practice amp for bassists that turns every low note you play into a vibration you can feel. BackBeat has raised nearly $130,000 in a Kickstarter campaign.
ROYAL OAK - Kathleen Norton-Schock joins M2 TechCast co-hosts Mike Brennan and Matt Roush to talk about her podcast series, Diva Tech Talk, and the latest happenings with the Michigan Council of Women in Technology, including summer Science Technology Engineering and Math summer camps for high school girls. To listen, click on https://soundcloud.com/internet-advisor-755109612/m2-techcast-episode-124-kathleen-nofton-schock
GRAND RAPIDS - Lambert, Edwards & Associates Inc., already one of the largest pubic relations agencies in the state, got bigger this week when the company announced it had acquired Owen Blicksilver Public Relations Inc. of New York City. Terms of the deal were not announced. Through this acquisition, Lambert Edwards created a top 10
ROYAL OAK - Lawrence Technological University’s Sabrina Collins will talk about the summer computer camps for high schools kids. MISBDC’s Joshua Marko will highlight the Michigan Celebrates Small Business Event in Lansing. Michigan Science Center’s Charles Gibson will explain what happened during the ITC Go the Distance On Informal Learning event. Warner Norcross + Judd’s
ANN ARBOR - We study exploding stars in our quest to make reliable fusion energy a reality, but chances are we've been thinking about supernovae wrong. New research led by the University of Michigan shows that heat plays a significant role in the way materials mix during fusion reactions—a factor that has, to this point,
ANN ARBOR - The tempo of Oakland County's job growth moderated in 2017, but that slow down appears to represent a "temporary hiccup" before it picks up to a more robust pace similar to 2015 and 2016. Job growth for the next three years is forecast to average 1.9 percent per year or an increase
FARMINGTON HILLS - Tecra Systems Inc., which provides Marketing Automation, Web-To-Print and Customer Communications Management software, wanted to acquire in April 2014 the Marketing Services Group from Novitex, a spin off from Pitney Bowes and had to do it quickly because there were other suitors in the mix. Through a mutual friend, Tecra Founder and
