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
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LANSING - Fostering a positive perception of Michigan as a place of unparalleled innovation in design and the arts while increasing jobs in the state's creative industries are top priorities for the Michigan Film Office. Creative industries employment represents approximately 74,000 employees in 9,800 businesses, including advertising, publishing, design, film/audiovisual, broadcasting, architecture, cultural/heritage, art schools,
ANN ARBOR - MichBio, the state's Life Sciences trade association, has added five new openings to its job bank - all are in Michigan. Tetra Discovery Partners - Kalamazoo Tetra Discovery Partners are seeking an experienced synthetic organic chemist to participate in research projects involving the synthesis of PDE4 allosteric modulators for treating Alzheimers
HOUGHTON - Nina Mahmoudian has received the National Science Foundation's prestigious CAREER Award, which provides $500,442 to help overcome the biggest limitation for autonomous vehicles - energy efficiency. The grants are given to early career researchers who excel in both research and education, both of which are important parts of Mahmoudian's Nonlinear and Autonomous Systems