DETROIT - The Automation Alley Awards Gala is Southeast Michigan's most prestigious event honoring technology organizations and their leaders. This year it will be held at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in downtown Detroit on Oct. 14. Award winners, selected by a panel of judges, are recognized because they are innovative leaders with vision
ANN ARBOR ? The Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition is back for a second year and again offering $1 million in cash prizes to student-lead and business start-up companies in the state, or willing to move to the state. Top prize is $500,000. Company deadline is Aug. 10. The student competition, with a deadline of Sept.
STAMFORD, Conn. - Worldwide mobile connections will reach 5.6 billion in 2011, up 11 percent from 5 billion connections in 2010, according to Gartner Mobile data services revenue will total $314.7 billion in 2011, a 22.5 percent increase from 2010 revenue of $257 billion. "Mobile data traffic will increase significantly as more people will have
WASHINGTON ? A major disaster has devastated your community, and landlines are down. Will you be able to use Facebook or Twitter to keep your employees, customers and vendors aware of your status? How will you distinguish good information on post-disaster social media channels from the scams? Business and civic leaders in Joplin, Mo., had
LANSING - As the national and state economy began to sputter in spring, so did the optimism Michigan residents showed a few months earlier, according to the latest results from the State of the State Survey conducted by the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University. In winter, 60 percent of
YPSILANTI - Eastern Michigan University will establish a 9/11 memorial after receiving a 14-foot, 6,800-pound steel column that had been part of the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks a decade ago.YPSILANTI - Eastern Michigan University will establish a 9/11 memorial after receiving a 14-foot, 6,800-pound steel column that had been part of the
LANSING - A total of 11 companies have invested $57 million in venture capital deals in Michigan during the first six months of 2011, according to data reviewed by the Wall Street Journal's online edition. But the state lags many other states in terms of the number and amount of venture capital deals done so
GRAND RAPIDS - Hopen Life Science Ventures, a life science venture capital fund, announced Aug. 4 the initial close of $25 million for its second fund, Hopen Life Science Fund II. The fund will remain open to new limited partners with a target fund size of $50 million expected by January 2012. Hopen Life Science
ANN ARBOR - Augment Ventures, a new early-stage venture capital fund in Ann Arbor, recently closed its first round of funding and made its first investment in Aperia Technologies, a cleantech company. Augment, which has an overall fund goal of $20 million, will invest in transformational cleantech and IT companies with high caliber and passionate
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -The constant exposure to cyber threats, what more with the emergence of new ones via social media has resulted in companies the world over investing heftily in upgrading their information security system. Total expenditure on secure routers, unified threat-management appliances, VPNs, network-access control, firewalls and intrusion detection/prevention systems will rise from $6