May 28, 2020 | Featured, Healthcare
A medical-delivery firm has received special permission to fly its drones farther than previously allowed in the United States, a COVID-prompted decision that advances the nascent drone-delivery industry here. ZipLine, which says its drones have...
May 28, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Investment
Autonomous vehicle (AV) startup Aurora today announced it has roughly doubled its workforce to 500 people (up from 250 as of May 2019) and committed to hiring workers across the company as it welcomes 22 remote interns and a trio of executives. Aurora’s hiring spree —...
May 28, 2020 | Detroit, Featured, Investment, Mobility
PlanetM, the State of Michigan’s mobility initiative, said Tuesday it was awarding more than $280,000 in grants to five companies to tackle mobility difficulties in the state caused by the coronavirus crisis. The companies will receive the grants in...
May 21, 2020 | Detroit, Featured, Mobility
Economic development leaders from both Windsor and Detroit joined together Wednesday to announce a new partnership to better promote the region as the perfect two-nation destination for existing and startup mobility companies to invest, locate and conduct business....
May 21, 2020 | 5G, Featured, Mobility
The Rural 5G Fund would repurpose money from the failed Mobility Fund II program, which was supposed to help expand LTE to areas of the U.S. that do not yet have it, and fund 5G deployments instead. “The rapid pace of deployment of 5G networks in many parts of the...
May 21, 2020 | Agriculture, Cyber Security, Featured
Agricultural enterprises that implement various forms of agricultural technology, or ag-tech, are especially vulnerable to potential hacking. As an industry, agriculture may be more susceptible to hackers because many new technologies lack adequate safety measures....
May 21, 2020 | Agriculture
With the world supply at an all-time high and commodity prices at an all-time low as a result of increasing demands in food production and consumption, the modern farming industry is at a crossroads, writes senseFly’s Benjamin Pinguet at PrecisionAg. There...
May 21, 2020 | Healthcare
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fuse Technology Group Inc. recognized it would need a solution for monitoring symptoms of employees, many of whom work on software products for essential companies. So the Ferndale, Mich.-based software developer made its own,...
May 21, 2020 | Business, Cloud Computing, Healthcare
Microsoft revealed more about its cloud strategy this week with the rollout of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, its first industry-specific cloud offering. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is “the first of many” custom cloud offerings tailored for...
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