TROY - Automation Alley’s 2021 Tech Report, now available, was prepared with support from Automation Alley’s Industry 4.0 academic and corporate partners and highlights several real-world Industry 4.0 success stories and features executive summaries and action items on the most pressing Industry 4.0 topics for small and medium-sized enterprises, including: Holistic Industry 4.0 Adoption AI,
BELLEVUE, Wash.—Officials at the wireless carrier T-Mobile announced areas in and around the city of Bangor and the village of Decatur, both located in southwest Michigan’s Van Buren County, have access to 5G service. The Michigan towns were among 81 cities and towns across the country that received 5G service. T-Mobile said the new service
SINGAPORE - Intelligent materials, the latest revolution in the field of materials science, can adapt their properties depending on changes in their surroundings. They can be used in everything from self-healing mobile phone screens, to shape-shifting airplane wings, and targeted drug delivery. Delivering drugs to a specific target inside the body using intelligent materials is
ANN ARBOR - Electrifly Detroit is an Augmented Reality series that makes a half dozen murals painted around the Motor City jump out in a 3D experience using a smart phone app created by BrandXR. Co-found Moody Mattan joins MITech TV co-hosts Matt Roush and Mike Brennan providing the back story. MORE at www.brandxr.io https://youtu.be/vH5jDmFxxw4
ANN ARBOR - Researchers at the University of Michigan, collaborating with chip-maker Intel, have created a new iron alloy that could be a major feature of magnet-based computers of tomorrow. Their work was published recently in Nature Communications. Their alloy acts as a magnetostrictor. That means it relies on the fact that when you plunge a magnetic material,
TROY—According to the just-released J.D. Power 2021 U.S. Consumer Lending Satisfaction Study, the consumer lending space was severely disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic as a combination of stimulus funding, record high mortgage refinance volume and a tenuous economy crimped the consumer loan market. “The consumer lending landscape shifted dramatically over the past year and consumers
DETROIT—Officials at Benzinga, the Detroit-based financial technology (fintech) and financial news provider, announced the Benzinga Small Business Free Website Giveaway, a contest to build a free website for one business a month for the rest of 2021. They said the move comes in response to the coronavirus pandemic, as businesses have scrambled to keep up with
DETROIT - Undeniably, space is something that we all came to appreciate in the past year during the pandemic, as it became increasingly more important for everyone, especially apartment dwellers. So, RENTCafé analysts reviewed how much space you could rent across Michigan for $1,100, which is close to the state’s average monthly rent of $1,066. Based on Yardi Matrix
ANN ARBOR – A United Kingdom-based company has signed an agreement to acquire ProQuest, which began life nearly a century ago as University Microfilms, and its related companies for $5.3 billion, subject to government approvals. ProQuest, which provides educational technology, has 2,700 employees globally, with about 550 in Ann Arbor, according to Lisa Hulme, a
GRAND RAPIDS—Compliance Systems, provider of digital compliance documentation, announced a mobile-enabled online account openings, which allows financial institution customers and members to open accounts up to 10 times faster. The software streamlines documents and hosts unique content such as embedded videos and tutorials to help financial institutions build relationships that consumer and commercial deposit customers
