DETROIT - Although women are often lead adopters of technology, the percentage of women in technology ranges from 15- to 20-percent - this dichotomy was explored May 13 at Grand Circus by a panel of women that discussed navigating a male dominated technology industry. The panel covered topics from mentorship to getting hit on
DETROIT - Invest Michigan announced Thursday it has invested $325,000 in five early stage technology companies. The money came from the Michigan Pre-Seed Fund 2.0 and allowed these companies to leverage another $2.7 million in co-investments from private sources. Since its inception in June 2014, the Fund has invested in 18 Michigan startups through
PLYMOUTH - Comcast on Thursday offered the Southeast Michigan technology press a demo of its new remote control that allows customers to navigate tens of thousands of shows and movies on the X1 platform with their voice. The new Xfinity remote with voice control lets viewers search for networks, shows and movie, set DVR recordings,
SAN FRANCISCO - Sight Machine, developer of a manufacturing analytics platform, announced Tuesday that Inteva Products, a global automotive supplier of engineered components and systems, has selected its manufacturing analytics solution to deploy in Inteva factories. Inteva Products is a spin-off from Delphi and its headquarters is in Troy. Sight Machine is a start-up with
SAN FRANCISCO - Americans don't trust government or corporations with their privacy, Pew Survey says. Technically Incorrect: Only 6 percent of adults say they are "very confident" that government agencies will keep their records secure. We cheerily give away our personal information every day. Often, we don't even know where it ends up or who
SAN FRANCISCO - Tech companies, along with security experts, say President Obama should protect user data, putting them in direct competition with the country's top law enforcement officials that may want access to that data. Some of the technology industry's largest companies have applied pressure on President Obama over the issue of data encryption. A
LANSING - Gongwer News Service reported how each much each department and major budget area would get from the General Fund in the signed framework from the 2015-16 fiscal year General Fund. Agriculture and Rural Development: $43,073,600 Attorney General: $37,013,400 Budget Stabilization Fund: $95,000,000 Civil Rights: $12,949,700 Community Colleges: $131,110,800 Corrections: $1,903,948,400 Education: $74,898,700 Environmental
NEW YORK - At the finals of the 2015 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, St. Petersburg National Research University of IT, Mechanics and Optics placed first, the only competitor to solve all the problems to win the contest. Second place went to Moscow State University, followed by the University of Tokyo in third place. Two
SOUTHFIELD - Three teams from Hamtramck High School swept the top three spots Thursday in The Engineering Society of Detroit's Engineering SMArT Michigan competition, held at Lawrence Technological University. A total of 20 members of the top four finalist teams received $30,000 scholarship offers from Lawrence Technological University at the event. The winning team, "Energy
LANSING - The Michigan House Energy Policy Committee on Wednesday took testimony on a bill that would create a seven-member board to consider a project that would create transmission lines connecting the Upper and Lower Peninsulas in the state to solve the problem of the U.P. relying on out-of-state providers. The bill (HB 4575) would