Waymark, A Detroit-Based Tech Firm, Leaves Google Demo Day With Award

A Detroit tech business took home the Game Changer award and $50,000 in venture capital money at Alphabet Inc’s Demo Day with Movement — the first automated video ad tool of its kind.  Waymark, a tech start-up that was founded in San Francisco in 2012 before moving to the Motor City, has created a platform that generates a … Continued

Delphinus Appoints Global R&D Leader Bruno Dacquay as New Vice President of Engineering

Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc., the leader in advanced breast ultrasound technology, has announced that it has named global research and development expert Bruno Dacquay as its new vice president of engineering. Dacquay brings to Delphinus decades of experience developing sophisticated medical devices that have been adopted and commercialized broadly in markets worldwide. In his new role, … Continued

RAPID Wrap-Up: Fabrisonic, Direct Dimensions, and Chemson Pacific

During RAPID + TCT, I had the opportunity to catch up with Fabrisonic to talk sound wave-based metal 3D printing.  Fabrisonic brings sound into the world of manufacturing, harnessing sound waves for its Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (UAM) process, which received another patent early this year. President and CEO Mark Norfolk took the time to tell me more about the … Continued

Delphinus SoftVue One Step Closer To Reality

Delphinus is sponsoring a large nationwide project collaborating with researchers across the country with the intent of providing a better supplemental breast screening modality to physicians and the women they serve, particularly women with dense breast tissue. SoftVue™ is an unparalleled 3-D whole breast ultrasound system that uses a circular transducer and proprietary algorithms to … Continued

An Ultrasonic Welding-Powered 3D Printer

I’m a sucker for an entirely new 3D printing process, and that’s what I walked into when I encountered Fabricsonic last week.  Fabrisonic produces a 3D metal printing device that uses ultrasonic welding principles.  Basically a high frequency sound is applied to two adjacent materials, which then causes the two materials to bond. The process … Continued

Blue Medora Expands Partnership With VMware

Blue Medora, a provider of enterprise cloud and datacenter management solutions, is releasing its True Visibility Suite will as a third-party product available as part of the VMware vCloud Air Network Program.  The True Visibility Suite’s expanded availability to the vCloud Air Network Program makes it only the second third-party solution in the program.  “More … Continued

Sharetec and Larky Partner For Credit Union Market

Sharetec System, core technology made simple, and Larky are pleased to announce that they are partnering to provide credit unions with a powerful, location driven platform that increases cross-selling opportunities, and provides members location-based perks that help support local businesses.  Gregg Hammerman, CEO of Larky, comments, “With our location-based platform, members receive mobile notifications when they are … Continued

Blue Medora Achieves Record Growth

Blue Medora, a leading innovator in IT operational analytics (ITOA) for enterprise cloud and database management systems, today announced continued strong growth with its sixth consecutive record-breaking quarter. Over the past year, Blue Medora grew its product business by more than 240 percent and increased their customer base by 200 percent.  Closing the year with … Continued

NanoBio Receives SBIR Grant For Genital Herpes Vaccine

NanoBio Corporation today announced that it has been awarded a two-year Phase II Small Business Research Innovation (SBIR) grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, for the development of an intranasal nanoemulsion (NE) adjuvanted vaccine for the prevention of genital herpes. The grant will fund … Continued

BetterWorks Survey: People Are Finding It Hard to Focus on Work Right Now

Months before the election, there were reports of greater political tension in offices than in previous election cycles. In one survey from the American Psychological Association, 10 percent of respondents said that political discussions at work led to stress, feeling cynical, difficulty finishing work, lower work quality, and diminished productivity.  Now, a new survey commissioned by BetterWorks—a software company … Continued