Macomb Community College-J.P. Morgan Chase fund awards $275,000 to 5 tech...
Kirk Pinho - Five Oakland and Macomb county startup tech businesses have received $275,000 in funding through the $2.7 million Innovation Fund, a joint effort between Macomb Community College and J.P....
View ArticleDriverless driving: Trip elicits range of reactions from others on the road
Crain's Detroit Business - When Delphi engineers undertook a nine-day, 3,400-mile journey from San Francisco to New York City in a driverless research vehicle in March, they got interesting...
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Suppliers speed their quest for software talent
David Sedgwick Crain News Service - Software is king. Now that smart cars can evade road obstacles, display 3-D maps and respond to voice commands, the software and electronics hardware for these...
View ArticleDelphinus raises $39.5 million to commercialize ultrasound breast-cancer...
Tom Henderson - Plymouth Township-based Delphinus Medical Technologies Inc., which uses ultrasound to make 3-D images for the detection of breast cancer, announced Thursday that it has raised a...
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TEDx Detroit announces speakers for Oct. 8 event
Marti Benedetti - The seventh annual TEDx Detroit event, featuring a member of NASA, a design strategist and a bat expert, among others, will take place at the Fox Theatre in Detroit on Oct. 8....
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Ann Arbor Spark adds 6,600 square feet to its Liberty Street incubator
Tom Henderson - Ann Arbor Spark is looking for a handful of early-stage companies for its new incubator space in downtown Ann Arbor -- companies that are no longer startups but still need support...
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Autonomous driving among topics at MichAuto Summit
Crain's Detroit Business - MichAuto, an automotive-centric initiative inside the Detroit Regional Chamber, will host its third annual MichAuto Summit on Sept. 30 at Cobo Center in Detroit.This year's...
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Lear to buy downtown Detroit building from Gilbert, build innovation and...
Kirk Pinho - Lear Corp. is buying a another downtown Detroit building, this one for a new innovation and design center. The sale will be the first by Dan Gilbert's Bedrock Real Estate Services LLC...
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TEDxDetroit brings together technology, entertainment, design
Associated Press - TEDxDetroit, a conference that brings together innovators in technology, entertainment and design, is Thursday at the Fox Theatre. The seventh annual event features hands-on labs...
View ArticleMichigan businesses open to 'Eureka' tech, but need more workforce training,...
Natalie Broda - Michigan businesses are embracing new technologies, including 3-D printing and automated products, seeing it as a way to boost worker productivity, but they need help with training,...
View ArticleStudent entrepreneurs win $9,000 in business pitch competition at Macomb...
Marti Benedetti - Brittney Feggan’s baby garments — easy to put on and remove — won first place in a recent student business pitch competition at Macomb Community College. The business administration...
View ArticleFCC task force visits Detroit to discuss health care tech innovations
Rachel Premack - Broadband connectivity as the “backbone” of modern health care is the focal point of a symposium in Detroit this week. Technologies to be discussed include blood glucose monitoring...
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From nuts to beer: Company builds revenue as craft brews grow
Tom Henderson - Brian Polowniak sliced and diced business plans and spreadsheets from 2011-13 for the $100 million investment arm of 5-Hour Energy entrepreneur Manoj Bhargava, deciding which...
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Genomenon breaks through bioinformatics bottleneck
Tom Henderson - Genomenon Inc., a University of Michigan spinoff that is being incubated in the office of technology transfer's Venture Accelerator on the north campus, has closed on a seed round of...
View ArticlePush is on to spur pint-sized medical devices to treat sick kids
Lauran Neergaard Associated Press - WASHINGTON — Improvise isn't a word parents want to hear from their kid's doctor. Yet pediatric specialists too often have to jury-rig care because many of the...
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Finance major cooks chickpea pasta idea into business opportunity
Laura Cassar Special to Crain's Detroit Business - Brian Rudolph will be honest — most of the chickpea experiments in his downtown Detroit kitchen were "horrible." There's not much Rudolph, who eats...
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20 Detroit projects selected as finalists for Knight Cities Challenge
Rachel Premack - With projects aimed at stimulating community dialogue on race identity, installing artist-designed lighting, connecting Detroit’s Latino and Latina entrepreneurs with the larger...
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CARved brings full-scale ice sculptures of hot cars to Campus Martius
Michael Lewis II - With the North American International Auto Show set to open to the public Saturday, CARved has set out to put some of the world’s most popular hot rods on ice. As part of the 12th...
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Micromarkets bring fresh flavor to self-service biz
Marti Benedetti - Joe Hessling thinks dusty vending machines tucked away in dark corners of corporate offices are doomed. The founder and CEO of 365 Retail Markets and Verii, Troy-based micromarket...
View ArticleInventev wins $500,000 federal grant
Tom Henderson - Inventev LLC, a TechTown Detroit tenant that hopes to develop and market a mobile power-generation system for work trucks, has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of...
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