GRANDVILLE - Cloud storage platform Box.net has raised a whopping $50 million in new funding with participation from CRM giant Salesforce.com. Past investors also participated in the round, as well as new 'strategic partners,' who will be revealed soon. Box's past investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emergence Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Scale
DETROIT - NextEnergy today is one of twenty winners of the $37 million Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge, a Department of Commerce competition launched in May to promote the advancement of 20 high-growth, regional industry clusters. Coordinated by Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, Michigan?s portion of the award totals $2.1 million distributed across five agencies
BATH ? The International Avaya Users Group will host a no-nonsense discussion Oct. 19 on Unified Communications. All vendors will give you their definition of UC and focus on their ?cool? applications ? but no one vendor is best in breed at all elements of these powerful applications. UC can be an effective strategy that
GRANDVILLE - Yes, you can fit a cloud on a USB stick. Founded by several of the brains who conceived OpenStack ? the open source software platform for building Amazon-like ?infrastructure clouds? ? San Francisco startup Piston Cloud Computing has squeezed the platform onto a memory stick in an effort to streamline the creation of
DEARBORN ? You can register online for the SecureWorld Expo at the Ford Convention Center in Dearborn Oct. 5-6 and get a $100 discount courtesy MITechNews.Com. Just use the code DTMITECH11 to qualify. The annual conference features keynotes from: Bill Muth, who will speak on, "Security in Moving to a Real-Time Business Model." Bill is
SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday unveiled the Kindle Fire tablet for $199, posing a big challenge to Apple's iPad. The tablet will go on sale Nov. 15 and people can start pre-ordering Wednesday. The new tablet, which works off a customized version of Google Inc.'s Android operating system, has a 7-inch screen and can
DETROIT - OnStar, General Motors' in-vehicle navigation, emergency communication and entertainment service, has told consumers it will no longer collect data on them after they cancel the service after a U.S. senator called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the legality of the practice. Earlier this month, OnStar informed customers by e-mail that beginning
WARREN - The U.S. Army will hold its third Robotics Rodeo in May 2012 to give scientists and engineers from government and industry to demonstrate unmanned ground systems. Robotics Rodeo III is co-hosted by the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center in Warren and Fort Benning?s Maneuver Battle Lab near Columbus, Georgia.
LANSING - Center for Business Innovation has partnered with Aerohive Networks to provide their partners with cloud-based managed wireless solutions. Cloud-based managed wireless solutions eliminate the chances for single-points of failure. It also eliminates the need for physical wireless controllers, making this a cost effective wireless solution for any size organization. ?Offering a cloud-based managed
LANSING - Michigan companies with fewer than 500 employees can qualify for financial assistance for export-related activities through a new export incentive program offered by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. ?Export sales help diversify companies? customer bases, provide longer term stability and can support higher paying jobs,? said MEDC President and CEO Michael Finney. ?This