LANSING - Turning visitors into leads is not a step, it’s a process that involves many steps. But it all begins with your content. Throughout the entire process, your content is what will keep visitors enticed and inevitable convert them into a lead. The visitors to your site are at the beginning stages. It’s your responsibility as
GRAND RAPIDS - The trade group for venture capitalists in Michigan wants to form a $100 million fund to match millions in private capital with public investment. Under the proposal that’s being pushed by the Michigan Venture Capital Association, private investors would put $75 million into a fund to seed new venture capital funds, an
DETROIT - General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra on Friday called on the world’s auto industry to collaborate to develop cybersecurity standards to not only protect the physical security of vehicle owners, but also the personal data they increasingly transmit through the connected vehicle. “Cybersecurity protects physical safety, privacy and data,” Barra said at
LANSING - Michigan lawmakers last week introduced legislation to restore a state angel investment tax credit that would allow an investor to receive a 20-percent tax credit against the state’s personal income tax for qualified angel investments. The two bills were sponsored by state Rep. Jeff Farrington, a term-limited Republican from Macomb County. Farrington’s bills
DETROIT - Imagine you’re at a concert watching your favorite band, and out of the corner of your eye you notice a tethered drone hovering nearby. But this drone isn’t taking photos or videos of the band. It's temporarily providing enhanced LTE wireless coverage at the packed venue so you, along with thousands of others
BIRMINGHAM - Over the last few decades, I’ve had my fair share of adventures. I’ve traveled to the farthest corners of the world – from South Africa to Iceland to Malta to Malaysia to Australia to Estonia. I was one of the first analysts at Gartner to cover the burgeoning IT security industry. I performed
HOUGHTON - Carbon dioxide emissions from dry and oxygen-rich environments will likely strengthen the climate forcing impact of thawing permafrost on top of methane release from oxygen-poor wetlands in the Arctic, according to a study in Nature Climate Change. The study was led by Northern Arizona University assistant research professor, Christina Schädel. One of
SAN FRANCISCO - A combination of quantum computing and Artificial Intelligence could yield a conscious intelligence that could underpin every piece of technology, including future smart phones, predicts the co-founder of Android. Andy Rubin, speaking at Bloomberg’s Tech Conference, imagines a future where artificial intelligence is so powerful that it powers every connected device. "If
DETROIT - Techstars Mobility has announced their next class of tech startups aiming to disrupt the transportation space. Last year’s class included companies like SPLT who have expanded regionally and nationally, bringing ride sharing to corporations through their technology platform. The twelve startups in this year’s class will work intensively over the three-month program at Ford
ANN ARBOR - Michigan's biosciences industry saw significant gains according to a new report with some 44,277 jobs, a gain of almost 2,400 since the last findings in 2014. The report, TEConomy/BIO The Value of Bioscience Innovation in Growing Jobs and Improving Quality of Life 2016 Report was released Tuesday during the annual BIO International
