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Strategic Partnership Helps First Responders Get Emergency Communications Tech

LANSING – A strategic partnership to help Michigan’s first responders with additional technology choices for emergency communications technology has been announced by the Office of Michigan’s Public Safety Communications Systems and Harris Corporation This effort will continue to focus on a reliable, secure and interoperable communications for the first responders across Michigan. “No single emergency

By |2018-10-25T17:00:39-04:00October 25th, 2018|New Products / Contracts, Politics|

Survey: Today’s Digital Nomad Married Female Gen Xer In Writing, Education, Admin

BOULDER, CO. - The average digital nomad is a married female Gen Xer who is an experienced employee working at a company at least 40 hours a week in the writing, education and training, or administrative career fields. She has health insurance, is saving for retirement, and has a bachelor's degree or higher. This according

By |2018-10-25T17:00:39-04:00October 25th, 2018|Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Featured|

MITechNews Offers Discount Code For New England Venture Summit

ANN ARBOR - MITechNews invites its readers, listeners and viewers to attend the New England Venture Summit on Dec. 12.  NEVS18 will feature more than 800 VCs, Corp VCs, Angel Investors and Top founders.  Register today to confirm your spot: http://bit.ly/2RRAUUd  10 percent off with Discount Code: MITECHVIP.  MITechNews.Com is a media sponsor of the

By |2018-11-09T12:08:50-05:00October 25th, 2018|Entrepreneurs, Featured|

West Michigan Medical Device Company Closes On $2.5 Million Series A Round

HOLLAND — Shoulder Innovations Inc. closed on $2.5 million in a Series A equity funding round led by the Michigan Angel Fund of Ann Arbor. The additional capital will go to support new product development and to acquire inventory and assets needed to accelerate growth of the Inset platform for future products and systems now in development. “It is

By |2018-10-25T09:47:03-04:00October 25th, 2018|Entrepreneurs, Life Sciences, Life Sciences/Biotech|

Michigan Government Wins Two Information Technology Awards

LANSING - The state of Michigan received two awards for excellence in information technology at the annual awards ceremony for the National Association of State Chief Information Officers in San Diego, Calif. The Michigan Education and Career Pathfinder tool took the top spot in the Digital Government: Government to Citizen category, and Mi Bridges: Helping

By |2018-10-24T19:50:53-04:00October 24th, 2018|Politics|

Davenport University Detroit Campus Seeks To Fill Yawning Tech, Healthcare, Urban Education Gap

DETROIT – Davenport University, the state’s second-largest non-profit university, plans to open a new campus in downtown Detroit in January. On tap will be 21 course offerings in areas such as business, healthcare, technology and urban education. It marks Grand Rapids-based Davenport’s second foray into metro Detroit. Last year Davenport closed its 40,000 square foot

By |2018-10-24T20:01:59-04:00October 24th, 2018|News|

BLM Report: Business Executives Less Positive About Direction Of Economy

DETROIT - The latest economic outlook from Business Leaders for Michigan shows far less optimism for the future among the state’s business executives. In the quarterly poll, only 31 percent of respondents said they held a positive view for the U.S. economy over the next six months, and just 22 percent believe Michigan’s economy will improve during

By |2018-10-24T15:07:43-04:00October 24th, 2018|News|

AxleTech, Thor Trucks To Develop Heavy-Duty e-Powertrain System

TROY - AxleTech is developing a heavy-duty e-powertrain system with Thor Trucks, a fleet-focused transportation lab building fully electric commercial trucks. AxleTech and Thor Trucks will integrate AxleTech’s e-axle technology with Thor’s proprietary battery technology to create a fully electric commercial vehicle powertrain. “Electric powertrains for on-highway use are rapidly advancing at a global scale,

By |2018-10-21T18:26:50-04:00October 21st, 2018|Auto Tech, Clean Update|

Genomenon Partners With Rare Genomics Institute

ANN ARBOR -  Genomenon announced today that they will donate Mastermind Genomic Search Engine licenses to the entire team of clinical scientists at Rare Genomics Institute to accelerate their work for patients with rare diseases.  Rare Genomics Institute (RG) is a nonprofit organization that has been at the forefront of providing direct support to undiagnosed rare disease patients and

By |2018-10-21T18:05:52-04:00October 21st, 2018|Life Sciences|

New DNA Tool Predicts Height, Shows Promise for Serious Illness Assessment

EAST LANSING - A new DNA tool created by Michigan State University can accurately predict people’s height, and more importantly, could potentially assess their risk for serious illnesses, such as heart disease and cancer. Stephen Hsu, Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies. For the first time, the tool, or algorithm, builds predictors for human

By |2018-10-21T18:00:52-04:00October 21st, 2018|Life Sciences, New Products / Contracts|