DETROIT ? After an intense review process by the judge?s panel, 54 semifinalists have been selected to compete for more than $1 million in cash and in-kind prizes in the fifth annual Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition. Businesses from as far as the United Kingdom, India and throughout the United States, applied this year?s competition. Applications
CUPERTINO - Apple Inc. said it received more than four million orders of its two new iPhone 6 models in the first 24 hours on Sept. 12, surpassing the previous record first-day pre-orders set in 2012 when Apple released the iPhone 5. The surge in interest has marketers as well as consumers intrigued. Jon Elvekrog,
TROY - Detroit Labs was named Technology Company of the Year at the 14th annual Automation Alley Gala last Friday at the MotorCity Casino Hotel in Detroit. Entrepreneur of the Year (sponsored by Foster Swift Collins & Smith) was David Wang and Ronny Chiang of BEET Analytics Technology. This year?s Awards Gala featured a special
DALLAS - AT&T Friday announced it will offer iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, the biggest advancements in iPhone history, beginning September 19 in AT&T retail stores. iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will be available for $0 down on AT&T Next. Customers can get up to $300 in trade in value when trading in
DETROIT - Compuware Corp., Michigan?s largest pure play IT company, announced Wednesday that it plans to move its mainframe support business to a separate company that will operate under the Compuware name. Chris O?Malley will be the president of the new Compuware. O?Malley was named president of Mainframe Operations in July. Prior to joining Compuware,
CUPERTINO, CA. - In an ambitious blitz of new products, Apple Inc. unveiled a pair of larger-screen iPhones, a sleekly designed smartwatch and a new payment system allowing users to make store purchases with a smartphone. Apple said the new products would go on sale Sept. 19. The new iPhones will have 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. ? For the second year Lawrence Technological University will host two conferences on the use of digital technology in the humanities, Network Detroit: Digital Humanities Theory and Practice, on Sept. 26, and THATCamp on Sept. 27. Digital technology has revolutionized scholarship and research in the humanities, and now mobile devices are changing the
CANTON - Three students from Canton will compete to represent the United States in the World Robot Olympiad after winning the open category at the statewide competition held at Cranbrook Schools on Sept. 4. Christopher Geng, Charles Liu and James Xue of Canton competed as the Robocruisers S team and took first place in this
DETROIT - With 39 percet of drivers in a recent survey indicating that in-car technology is important when deciding which car to purchase, and the ?connected car? services sector expected to see growth nearly 21 times that of traditional mobile voice and data services thru 2018, the use of mobile/wireless technologies in all sectors of
LANSING - In saying the state is making "tremendous progress" and faces the possibility of "going back to 2009," if he is not re-elected, Governor Rick Snyder said Friday that big businesses did not get that much from the 2011 tax change, more companies are looking to locate in Michigan since the adoption of the