ROYAL OAK - Lawrence Technological University has been approved for a one-year, $100,000 extension to fund the LTU Collaboratory Gatekeeper Business Incubator. Mark Brucki, LTU Executive Director of Corporate and Community Partnerships joins M2 TechCast to provide all the details. He is joined by Cathy Koch, CEO of K-Tec Systems, an LTU Collaboratory Client. The
TROY - Altair has acquired Michigan-based TES International’s technology, intellectual property, and other assets. Terms were not announced. TES was founded in 1994 to service the “electronics cooling” market, and provides cross-industry software solutions for thermal design and packaging, custom programming, general heat transfer, stress and vibration analysis, and computational fluid dynamics. Their main CFD software, ElectroFlo,
DETROIT - NextEnergy Wednesday announced Jim Saber will be appointed president and CEO of the Detroit-based technology accelerator, effective March 2. Saber, who has led NextEnergy’s business development and technology commercialization efforts since 2004, will replace Jean Redfield who will re-join Fordsell Machine Products, the precision machining manufacturing firm she co-owns with her husband. Redfield,
LANSING - Farmers, producers and processors would be able to choose alternative energy suppliers without counting toward the 10 percent cap on electric choice under a bill discussed Tuesday in the House Energy Policy Committee. The panel took no action on HB 5387, sponsored by Rep. Gary Glenn (R-Williams Township), the committee chair. Supporters of the proposal included
LANSING - Environmental Quality Director Heidi Grether told both subcommittees overseeing her budget that finding a replacement for the Clean Michigan Initiative bonds was her top priority for the year, and heard concerns from members of both panels over the proposed increase in tipping fees. As part of the department's $494.59 million budget ($46.95 million General Fund), Governor
ANN ARBOR - GenomeNext has embedded Genomenon’s Mastermind search results in its Olympus Platform to simplify and accelerate variant curation for genomic analysis. Efficacious variant interpretation is a critical but challenging requirement to translate genomics into clinical care and medical discovery. Variant curation remains a very labor-intensive bottleneck often requiring inefficient, manual processes that can
DETROIT - Cobo Center has launched a newly redesigned exhibitor and conference services online ordering system that gives in-house and vendor event services a streamlined, transparent ordering process, which allows customer access to ordering history in Cobo from beginning to end. “For our customers across the globe, this new software creates an online order system
SAN JOSE - A four-year-old autonomous drone startup founded by MIT researchers and backed by Silicon Valley’s top investors is finally ready to show off what it’s been building over the past several years. Today, Skydio is showcasing the R1, a drone that boasts what the startup calls “self-flying” capabilities. What this means is that the drone
ROYAL OAK – On M2 TechCast Feb. 19, Inforum InGAGE’s Tember Shea will interview Katie Novak, President and CEO, Vaugahn Industries that brings a unique approach to application problems in the car wash industry. Dominic Serra CEO of Metro Wireless will discuss his new fixed Wi-Fi Coverage. Kathleen Norton-Schock will update what’s happening with Diva
ROYAL OAK - Last month, Lawrence Technological University host its version of Global Game Jam where 30 developers came together to create new video games in a 48-hour marathon. There wasn't much sleep but there was much fun. Marshall Ashton, who runs the LTU Bachelor of Fine Art in Game Art program, joins Matt Roush and
