FERNDALE - If you get hammered on New Year’s Eve this year, BeMYDD (BeMyDesignatedDriver) will drive you home in your car and the company will donate $1 of your fee to an animal shelter that does not kill puppies. It’s called the Puppy Love campaign. The service is available in metro Detroit and Ann Arbor.
FERNDALE - Maureen Miller-Brosnan, executive director of the Michigan Venture Capital Association, a trade association represents 37 VC firms in Michigan that invest in startup companies, primarily technology. Also included in the MVCA are 12 Angel groups. So if you have a tech company in Michigan that needs investment cash, you’ll want to listen to
FERNDALE - On the Dec. 21 edition of M2 (squared) TechCast, cyber security experts Dan Lohrmann and Richard Stiennon take a look at the biggest cyber attacks of 2015 and conjecture on what cybersecurity threats might await businesses, governments and consumers in 2016. Also on the show, Max Muncey from the Detroit Auto Dealers Association talks
FERNDALE - On the December 14 M2 (Squared) TechCast, BeMYDD (Be My Designated Driver) announces its Puppy Love campaign for New Year’s Eve revelers, the Michigan Venture Capital Association’s Maureen Miller-Bronson explain how the private equity group funds entrepreneurs, and Wayne Dyksen, MSU Professor of Computer Science and Engineering talks about the MSU student engineers
FERNDALE - Michelle Gilbert, Vice President of Public Relations for the Heartland Region of Comcast, will spend $3 million to build out a 1 gigabit per second Internet service to the businesses, across Midtown and Downtown next year. Comcast also will build a 1,700 square foot Xfinity store that will open in January, plus a
FERNDALE - Scott Ringlein, of the Energy Alliance Group of Michigan, talks about the energy efficiency projects his company performs for industrial and commercial clients. The PACE program participant allows property owners to take on a special assessment to pay for energy efficient projects, much like a tax assessment paid over a long period of
FERNDALE - Greg Doyle, who manages the Oakland County technology networking group, Tech248, provides the background on the group that hopes to connected about 4,000 tech companies in the state’s second largest county. Retaining newly graduated college students, with degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, the classic STEM degrees so highly coveted by Michigan
FERNDALE - Kathleen Norton-Schock, one of Diva Tech Talk’s founders, interviews Carey Pachla, President of Fast Switch a nationwide recruiting firm. Carey discusses the awesome STEM jobs available, open to women. But, she said, unfortunately Michigan does not have the talent to fill them. However, Fast Switch fills hundreds of these jobs each year. To listen,
FERNDALE - Rosemary Bayer, chief inspiration officer at ardentCause, is interviewed by Kathleen Northon-Schock, co-founder of Diva Tech Talk, about the non-profit Michigan-based social enterprise that serves the philanthropic, nonprofit and education sectors and provides data solutions and services. To listen, click on https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit/m2-episode-12-seg-1-ddtt-rosemary-bayer?in=podcastdetroit/sets/m2techcast-on-podcastdetroit
FERNDALE - BeMYDD, an application that lets you rent your own personal designated driver for you and your car, will be announced on M2 TechCast on Dec. 14 that is will be offering a special New Year’s Eve service for Detroit revelers. Maureen Miller-Brosnan, executive director of the Michigan Venture Capital Association, will discuss the
