DETROIT - While the talk of the lithium ion battery market had been focused on consumer electronics and hybrid and plug-in vehicles, the focus has taken a decided turn in the last couple of years towards stationary storage. For anyone in the battery market this won't come as a big surprise. In 2013, California set
HOUGHTON - Princeton Review's 2016 issue of The Best 380 Colleges ranks Michigan Technological University among the best Midwestern colleges and green colleges nationwide. The new listings were released Tuesday, Aug. 4. The Princeton Review rankings focus on undergraduate education and are based on surveys of 136,000 students at the 380 colleges on the Best
ANN ARBOR - Gas mileage of new vehicles sold in the U.S. remained unchanged last month, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. Average fuel economy (window-sticker values) of cars, light trucks, vans and SUVs purchased in July remained at 25.4 mpg. "The fuel economy in July was unchanged
DETROIT - NextEnergy was announced as a winner of the U.S. Small Business Administration Growth Accelerator Fund Competition during Tuesday's White House Demo Day receiving a $50,000 grant to use to accelerate smart city cluster development in Michigan. Cluster development will form a bridge between global tech-based corporations in smart city technology areas - energy,
NEW YORK - Tickets are now on sale for the 2015 Martha Stewart American Made Summit Nov. 7 at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's headquarters in New York City. Martha Stewart American Made, now in its fourth year, is a nationally recognized awards program that celebrates stars of the growing maker culture who have turned their
LANSING - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released Monday its final rule on carbon emissions targets nationwide, welcomed with open arms by environmental activists and a bland, "still-in-review" reaction from those otherwise. Valerie Brader, executive director of the Michigan Agency for Energy, said in a statement that she will be working with legislators, stakeholders and
LANSING - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday released its long-awaited final rule on carbon emissions for all states, and an analysis from the EPA shows Michigan has one of the more moderate state goals compared to other states. The plan, named the Clean Power Plan, has been two years in the making and
DETROIT - Interested in seeing some of the great app technology being developed and used by Michigan companies? Now is your chance! Mobile Monday Detroit is providing an opportunity for six Michigan companies to present their apps at the August 10th Mobile Monday Detroit event at TechTown. The event will begin at 6 pm at
AUBURN HILLS - Mac-OU INC client company Coupon Wallet invites you to participate in their 24-hour hackathon Aug. 14. First place is a laptop computer. Coupon Wallet has an extensive RESTful API for creating, managing, tracking, clearing, and using coupons digitally. The hackathon challenge is to create an application on any platform (i.e. website, Android,
SAN FRANCISCO - The common wisdom when it comes to PCs and Apple computers is that the latter are much more secure. Particularly when it comes to firmware, people have assumed that Apple systems are locked down in ways that PCs aren't. It turns out this isn't true. Two researchers have found that several known