Five Must-Haves for a Smarter Home
Consumer excitement about the smart home has reached epic heights with hundreds of new devices on the market that monitor, notify, control and secure the home. According to Parks Associates, mobile ubiquity, technology innovation and industry standards and partnerships have contributed to more than 13 million U.S. households now owning a connected device. Based on CNET observations, this number is set to increase threefold over the next three years to an estimated 45 million smart homes by 2018.More
Regulatory Compliance and Enterprise Risk Programs are becoming increasingly important to businesses of all sizes. Since all (or, many) regulatory intrusions add nothing to the “bottom line,” many businesses tend to neglect robust (or any) implementation of a company compliance program.
When Devita Davison, her Brooklyn, N.Y., home destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, returned to her roots in Michigan, she took a chance and accepted a co-director’s position at what was essentially a startup, even though FoodLab Detroit is a nonprofit organization.
The Air Quality Division is holding a comment period and public hearing on January 26, 2015, at 1:30 p.m. on proposed revisions to administrative rules promulgated pursuant to Part 55, of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, 1994 PA 451 (NREPA).
What do a dry cleaning service, web design firm and gentlemen’s club have in common? All three small businesses obtained “live” spokesperson software for their web sites from Tweople, Inc. for a one-time fee of a few hundred dollars. All three businesses are also being sued by Live Face on Web, LLC (LFOW), the developer and owner of the software, for direct and indirect copyright infringement for allegedly using “an unlawful version of LFOW’s Software”.
Please join The Michigan Chapter of CoreNet Global for a special discussion focused on development trends and the future of the City of Detroit. Under new leadership and with investment interest in Detroit at an all-time high, the City is charting a new course that will further position itself as a long-term driver of the state and regional economy.
Sustain Our Great Lakes is soliciting applications for competitive funding to restore and enhance habitat in the Great Lakes basin. Details about this funding opportunity are provided in the Request For Proposals. Additional application information can be viewed at www.sustainourgreatlakes.org. The submission deadline is February 18, 2015.
In December, Automation Alley, Michigan’s largest technology business association, helped six local companies make valuable business connections in two of the Middle East’s most promising markets for U.S. exports: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.).
We wanted to share our exciting new year’s resolution with you… to make the 2015 MI Earth Day Fest the planet’s largest and liveliest Earth Day event!
Michigan has 1,455 MW of installed wind capacity and 100 MW under construction, representing over $2B in investment; and officials are considering plans and a policy framework for additional capacity in the near future. Michigan’s 39 manufacturing facilities are actively producing components for wind turbines that are being assembled and installed across the country.