ANN ARBOR—Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc., the developer of “spider silk” textiles through genetic engineering, announced that its subsidiary Prodigy Textiles has signed a new five-year lease on a 50,000-square-foot factory in Quang Nam province, Vietnam. Company officials, in a press release, said the new factory “is expected to play a major role in supporting the
FLINT - Legends of the Green - The Masters' Tour is happy to make our first national stop in Michigan to present a 2 Day Educational Seminar on May 11 and 12th at Vehicle City Social. The weekend event is powered by THC123, a cannabis employment agency. Gain direct insight to knowledge from cannabis
MADISON HEIGHTS—Metro Wireless, an internet service and telecommunications provider, announced an expansion of its services to Rochester, Novi, Livonia, Romulus, and surrounding areas. The services, at speeds of 100 mbps download and 20 upload, or 200 download and 40 upload, will be available by June 30, company officials said. “Our new asymmetrical tiers are great
DETROIT - Heather Garey, Agent Manager for 123Net, talks about the Data Center's Partner Program that lets agents sell bandwidth to customers. She also discusses 123Net's participation in IoT Tech Connect on April 29 at the Michigan Science Center. 123Net will have a booth in the vendor section to answer all your questions and more.
ANN ARBOR—Officials of Online Tech, a provider of cloud services, announced that the company has changed its name to Otava. Online Tech was acquired in early 2018 by Schurz Communications Inc., a Mishawaka, Ind.-based company that started in newspapers, and which now includes digital marketing and communications, cloud services, data centers, and broadband data services.
ANN ARBOR—Universities and federal laboratories are the cornerstones of American innovation, developing new products that address important societal issues and drive economic growth. The University of Michigan, with support from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, studied public research universities across North America to identify best practices for bringing new
SOUTHFIELD – BullsEye Telecom has launched its VoIP-based key system solutions that allows users to park calls with the press of a single button as well as see which lines are parked and which are currently free. The system also enables parked calls to be easily picked up from other phones regardless of physical location.
KALAMAZOO - Musician and software developer Arturio Hinton was on the road listening to an acapella song on the radio when he said to himself, ‘I wish there was a way to isolate the voice track, or the instrument track.’ As a software developer, Hinton knew he could craft an application that could do that.
DETROIT - Tina Benvenuti-Sullivanhas been named chief operating office for Franco public relations. She previously was senior vice president. Since joining Franco as an account manager in 2011, she has expanded the agency’s integrated communications capabilities to better serve Franco’s automotive, technology and consumer clients. Benvenuti-Sullivan works with organizations like the Steel Market Development Institute
DEARBORN – Information Systems Resources has been awarded a group purchasing agreement for Equipment Recycling and eWaste Management Services with Premier Inc. effective May 2019. The new agreement allows Premier members to take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated by Premier for equipment recycling and eWaste management services. Premier is a healthcare improvement company
