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Announcing Cronicle's First Great Lakes Fiction Release

Murder of Crows: Reverse All Tides Cronicle is happy to announce the release of our first fiction publication set in the Great Lakes: Murder…

Open Call For Business Stories

Open Call For Business Stories To Be Featured on Cronicle The last few years have seen tremendous growth on Cronicle. Then we took a bit of…

Is Michigan Finally Cleaning Up Environmental Pollution?

Michigan Environmental Cleanup Uses New Technology, Looking for Partners For years I heard at Cronicle that Muskegon and other Michigan…

Build Assets Not Tools

Build Assets Not Tools For entrepreneurs looking to build a digital, scalable, valuable, and fun business, 24 Assets by Daniel Priestley…

Remote Business Accelerators and Incubators for 2024

In the dynamic world of technology startups, securing funding is a critical step towards success. However, local venture capital (VC…

Are Any Jobs Really AI Proof?

The Nuances of AI-Proof Jobs: A Closer Look As the landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation continues to rapidly evolve, the…

Announcing Cronicle's New Content for Remote Business

Announcing Cronicle's New Remote Business Content Pivot My goodness, where have we been? Well, on a Lake Michigan beach vacation... sort of…

What Will Happen With Tech Investing in 2024?

What Will Happen With Tech Investing in 2024? As we step into 2024, the tech investing scene continues to evolve under the influence of…

Announcing Cronicle's New AI Tool Guides for Small Business

Announcing Cronicle's New AI Series for Small Business You may have noticed a lull recently as we switched gears at the beginning of 202…

How VC Funding Is Advancing Life Sciences

Venture Capital's Role in Advancing Life Sciences The life sciences sector has been a beacon of innovation and growth, underpinned by the…

Startup Funding Shifts Industries

Shifting Tides in Startup Funding: From Software to Life Sciences The landscape of startup funding is undergoing a significant…

Another Rushed AI Demo Error

Balancing Innovation and Caution: The Rush of AI to Market and the Future of Personal Technology With the advent of artificial intelligence…

Biden Issues AI Executive Order

Biden Issues Urgent AI Regulation Executive Order In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the line between…

Ampera Desk Bike Review

LifeSpan Launches New Power-Generating Desk Bike for Seated Exercise Our co-founder Archie Cowan who has been working remotely for Amazon…

Second Wave of 23andMe Data Leaks Sparks Renewed Concerns

Second Wave of 23andMe Data Leaks Sparks Renewed Concerns Just two weeks after an initial data leak, 23andMe, the popular genetic testing…

Artists Fight Back Against AI With New Data Poisoning Tool

Artists Fight Back Against AI With New Data Poisoning Tool A new data poisoning tool known as Nightshade is giving artists an avenue to…

Venture Capital Shifts to Life Sciences

Venture Capital Shift: From Software to Life Sciences The venture capital landscape is a constantly shifting terrain, sensitive to market…

How Investors Are Analyzing AI Startups

How Investors Differentiate Among AI-Driven Companies Just one year ago, AI seemed like a technology that was still trying to find its…

OpenAI Author Lawsuit Sets Tone for AI Copyright Law

Author Lawsuit Against OpenAI Sets The Tone for AI Copyright Law A class action lawsuit against OpenAI has gained attention as a group of…

Making Gen AI Sustainable

Gen AI Has a Sustainability Problem "GenAI," or generative artificial intelligence, has a sustainability problem. While businesses are using…

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tech-events

Dev Ops Days Detroit 2023 Preview

DevOps Days Detroit 2023 Preview A worldwide series of technical conferences focused on software development and IT infrastructure is…

TechTalk 2021: Ann Arbor's Tech Week Premiere Event

Sandy Harvey of ouroffice works with startups to set the foundation for functional communication and psychological safety early on. This…

Michigan Tech Events August 2021

It's already mid-summer for the Michigan tech community, which has had a busy startup launch summer but a much sleepier tech event schedule…

January 2021 Michigan Tech Events

U.S., Midwest, & Global Tech Conferences December 2020

tech-news

X (Twitter) Adopts New Business Model

X, Formerly Twitter, Adopts New Subscription Model X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has announced plans (Bloomberg) to test three…

Proceptual Introduces HR Compliance Tool

HR Software for AI and Automation Compliance Chicago AI compliance startup Proceptual has just announced the launch of its tech-enabled…

Room 35 Will Mentor Contractors Incubator Style

Room35 Introduces Tech Incubator Model to Construction Room35 is a new business incubator in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that co-founders Joshua…

Ann Arbor Startup PassiveBolt Launches AI-Enhanced Keyless Entry for Home

Silicon Valley VC Funding Expected To Drop Below 20% of Deals in 2021, + Other Tech News Highlights

manufacturing

Funding Raise for Flexible Manufacturing

Machina Funding Raise for Advanced Manufacturing Flexibility Flexible advanced manufacturing is finally here. Traditionally, changing…

startups

No More Big Funding Rounds for Startups?

No More Big Funding Rounds? Once upon a time, it was a rarity to see startups bring in $100 million or more in a round of funding. These…

Ohio X Update

Ohio X Update By Tim Busbey, Cronicle Staff Writer CINCINNATI, Ohio – Cincinnati-based tech startup Beltways recently won the inaugural…

mentorship

Goodhood Auto Interview with CEO Prashant Salla

Turning Passion into Convenience: The Story of Goodhood & Prashant Salla In today's fast-paced world, convenience is king. The demands on…

events

a2tech360 Tech Week New Events for 2023

Ann Arbor's a2tech360 Tech Week New Events for 2023 Ann Arbor's popular tech week a2tech360 is back September 14-22 with favorite events…

software

University of Michigan Offers First of Its Kind AI Suite

University of Michigan Offers First-of-its-Kind AI Suite ANN ARBOR – As artificial intelligence services are growing exponentially in many…

Digital E-Commerce Tools

This is a guest post by Cronicle Press contributor Dean Burgess. For more information about Dean's work, visit Excitepreneur.net. Must-Have…

Gradient Valley Launches AI Tool for Education

Gradient Valley Launches First of Its Kind AI Mobile App To Teach Data Science Ann Arbor-based software company Gradient Valley has just…

ChatGPT-4 Is Already Here: How Will You Use It?

Startup Lower disrupts lending with mortgage as a service

mobility

Rivian R1T Tech Review

Rivian R1T Tech Review There cannot be an EV more tricked out with tech than the R1T. Feel free to disagree with us in the comments and let…

business

Pluie Changes the Diaper Changing Game

The latest and greatest startups to come out of the Midwest can often be found in Chicago, where Chicago Innovation has curated a fantastic…

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Plymouth Funding News

Plymouth Raises New $125M Fund for Startups Plymouth Growth Partners, a growth equity firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has just announced…

FDIC Seizes Republic in Third Bank Failure of 2023

Third Major Bank Failure of 2023 Republic Bank has been seized by the FDIC after the third major bank failure of 2023 in the U.S., following…

Error Costs Google $100b: How Do We Get The Most Out of AI?

Microsoft introduced a disturbing chatbot of their own recently, Bing, which occasionally argues with users and threatens them. Google…

Scientists at Google Create a Working Quantum Wormhole

AI Tool from Stefanini, Lawrence Tech Helps Run Smart Factories

recruiting

P33 Announces New Board Members

P33 Hires Some Familiar Faces to New Board Chicago startup incubator and tech networking hub P33 has just announced new board members, some…

Check Out These Tech Jobs from Ann Arbor-Detroit Startups

Are you looking for a tech startup job in the Midwest? The middle of the country tends to be more conservative in hiring, so the region didn…

Blumira Hires Jim Simpson as CEO + Adds 4 Security Industry Veterans

Cybersecurity startup Blumira has just announced multiple new hires as the company expands rapidly through the end of 2021. New senior-level…

Top Michigan Tech Startups Hiring Right Now

5 AI and CyberSecurity Companies Hiring in Ann Arbor-Detroit

mobility-tech

LAND Energy Launches an EV for Energy Independence

Today, we are excited to introduce LAND Energy, an electrification and mobility startup based in Cleveland that is focused on combining…

Report: Electric Car Sales Skyrocket

According to a new report out from IDTechEx, electric car sales have hit new records as governments double down on support for the…

North American EV Charging Company FLO Expands to Michigan

North American EV charging company FLO has just announced plans to open its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Michigan in 2022. This is…

Throdle Creates First Global Automotive Social Network

The Newest Midwest Mobility Startups To Watch: LiveRoad Analytics

robotics

Mach9 Uses AI as a Surveying Tool To Strengthen the Grid

We've reported before about how AI is being used to fill in gaps in Flint, Michigan, pipe records to predict where pipes need to be replaced…

funding

Tech Startups Scramble After Silicon Valley Bank Collapse, Bank-to-Bank Bailout

The Silicon Valley Bank website has been taken over by "Silicon Valley Bridge Bank" to create a vehicle to serve existing SVB depositors via…

Immuta Inc. Gains Silicon Valley Investor, Valued at $1 billion

Immuta Inc., a newly minted unicorn tech startup in the Drive Capital LLC and Ohio Innovation Fund portfolios, has added a new publicly…

Forj raises $15 million and announces merger

Startup Forj has just raised a $15 million-dollar Series A funding round and announced a merger with Web Courseworks that will come together…

How to connect with Chicago's startup ecosystem

6 Ways to Secure Funding for Your Startup

engineering

Bitwise raises $80 million to teach underserved to code

Bitwise Industries is a Fresno-based tech startup on a mission: teach underserved populations how to code, pay them to get real-world…

Replaced By A Room Full of CodeMonkeys: AI Use Cases for Software Engineers

Engineers may be grappling with the idea that AI can code, threatening low-level software developer jobs in the coming years, but AI is also…

New Nanophotonic Material Can Turn Heat to Electricity

Microscopy images show no discernible degradation before and after heat treating the material. Image credit: Andrej Lenert A new heat…

CarBeast creates AI tool to predict car repair costs

Midwest startup uses AI and robotics to build modern homes

medical-tech

New Medical Tech Incubator Opens in Grand Rapids

Think Southeast Michigan has things wrapped up with regards to medtech startups? Think again. Michigan State has just opened a new incubator…

Nano-Engineered Brain Cancer Treatment Might Kill Tumor Cells and Activate Immune System

An extended diagram shows the components that go into each liquid—the human serum albumin that helps cross the blood-brain barrier, the iRGD…

Akadeum Life Sciences Names First Recipient of Rising Innovators Research Award

Akadeum Life Sciences Rising Innovators Research Reward Akadeum Life Sciences has just begun a new award series, aimed at honoring those…

Ann Arbor Continues Trajectory to HealthTech Startup Hub with New Crop of 2022 Companies

Workit Health Brings Telemedicine To Addiction Treatment

announcements

nuclear fusion unlocks 50% more energy than input, creating potential for clean energy

The core of a JET tokamak that produces nuclear fusion reactions in the UK. Photo c. Christopher Roux, CEA-IRFM, EUROfusion. The US…

Chicago's TechRise supports entrepreneurs with generous pitch competition grants

Chicago is still growing as an emerging tech hub. Meet P33, an organization that is supporting entrepreneurs that are historically…

Tech Companies Hiring November 23 in Ann Arbor

Join the annual Tech Homecoming hiring event at Cahoots in Ann Arbor November 23rd 4-7 pm hosted by Ann Arbor SPARK to find your next tech…

Cronicle Hires Tim Busbey as Second VP of Content

Atomic Object Opens New Raleigh Office

uncategorized

Michigan Space Technologies Will Launch Low-Orbit Satellites

Joshua Mehay and his wife Meghan Mehay founded Michigan Space Technologies to create a service that can launch low-orbit satellites for…

Women in Tech Talks Strategies for Equity and Access

Women in Tech is a newer conference added to Ann Arbor's a2tech360 week, which includes over a dozen tech conferences, networking events…

advanced-manufacturing

IDTechEx Projects Varied Growth in the Industrial Service Robots Sector

Cambridge-based IDTechEx projects a continued growth in the industrial service robots sector in logistics and cleaning, including such…

How To Automate CNC Machines Without Breaking the Bank

This is a guest post from Jonathan Schlick, Manufacturing Manager of Techni Waterjet. The opinions and statements in this article are the…

Robots Fabricate a Pavilion To Prove Broader Use Case for Automated Construction

Want to see the best garden pavilion that robots can build? The public is invited October 24 to the opening and ribbon cutting ceremony in…

Eoxs Pivots to Analytics Software for Steel

Project Synergy Automates Data Tracking and Collab for Automotive Prototype Builds

agile-methods

Who Are The 2021 Chicago Tech Unicorns? Meet Amount.

Chicago minted no fewer than 8 unicorn startups already in 2021, and the year is only half over, easily doubling last year's count. Why is…

E-Commerce Adoption Explodes, Eoxs Offers 1-Day Online Marketplace Solutions

Eoxs e-commerce allows users to plug their products, inventory, pricing, logo, and domain into an e-commerce solution for quick online sales…

The Defense Industry Adopts Lean Startup Strategies

This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…

How Agile Is Adapted for Instructional Design & Online Training

Ann Arbor-Based FordLabs Is Ford's Ongoing Push To Make Automotive Agile

business-news

networking

FutureGood Uses Futurism To Mentor Entrepreneurs

Dena Rapley came out of a career in higher education to work in outreach with Future Good, a startup that mentors entrepreneurs and business…

Guest Post: How To Find a Disability-Accommodating Job in Government Tech

This is a guest post by Cronicle contributor Dean Burgess of Excitepreneur.net. If you would like to write a guest post for Cronicle Tech…

Midwest Tech Jobs: Connect with Startup Job Events

Looking for Midwest tech jobs? Companies are still hiring in Michigan, where startups and larger tech companies have not had to lay off the…

Ann Arbor SPARK Creates New Business Education & Networking Series, ACE

In-Person Michigan Tech Events June/July 2021

marketing

How To Create a Content Marketing Program That Supports Your Company Through a Recession

Startups hire Cronicle to create content marketing for them became Cronicle's tech blog quickly became one of the top resources for tech and…

Guest Post: Best Kept Secrets for a Successful Small Business Website

Anyone can walk into the Ferris Wheel in Flint, a business incubator Michigan. All you need is an idea on a napkin. Photo courtesy Ferris…

Ann Arbor's AdAdapted Is Behind Your Improving Online Shopping List

This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…

Ann Arbor Tech Company Nutshell Launches Unique CRM Product for Marketers

When To Start Content Marketing For Your Startup & How To Focus Your Strategy

leadership

Guest Post: Best Cities for Digital Nomads

This is a guest post from Dean Burgess, who writes about business and entrepreneurship at Excitepreneur.net. The views mentioned here do not…

How inflation is impacting tech talent and businesses' plans for hiring

With consumer sentiment continuing a downward trend, falling 14.4% in June according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers…

Where To Find Mentorship For Your Michigan Startup

Winners of a TechTown Detroit pitch event. This is a guest post from Civionics CEO and former TechTown Detroit mentor Gerry Roston. If you…

What The Future Holds for Healthcare Startups

Why Women Leave STEM with Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Jennifer Doudna & Colleagues

sustainable-energy

The Grid Is Changing To Support Electrification: Here's How It's Going in Legacy State Michigan

Infrastructure in Michigan is famously old as it was all built during and just after the industrial revolution. That makes it a great state…

Report Shows Clean Energy Jobs Could Replace Lost Coal Jobs

Coal-fired power plants in the United States. Bubbles are scaled by plant capacity, which ranges from 5 to 3,500 MW. Image credit: From…

security

Michigan Governor Calls for Protection of Health Data

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, photo courtesy State of Michigan Office of the Governor. Michigan Governor Whitmer has this week sent a…

Ann Arbor's Censys Raises $35 Million in Series B, Appoints CEO

Ann Arbor cybersecurity startup Censys has just raised $35 million in a Series B round led by Intel Capital. Brad Brooks was appointed CEO…

AI Security Trends To Look Out For in 2022

This article is a guest post from David Balaban, a computer security researcher who has written for a number of high-profile tech and…

7 Questions To Ask When Looking for a Cloud Services Provider

How Cloud Services Management Is Changing in 2021

life-sciences

Breaking U Michigan Research: Harnessing Entropy to Assemble Nanoparticles

Dodecahedron_binary.png Entropy is generally regarded as a force of chaos or disorder in physics. but it's entropy that researchers at the…

Celebrate Invention Marks a Year of Startup Milestones at the University of Michigan

Rebecca Cunningham and Kelly Sexton host a panel on research and startup culture at the University of Michigan, which launched a milestone…

fun

Spellbound Creates Augmented Reality Scavenger Game For Pediatric Patients

This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…

Build Yourself a Custom Work From Home Keyboard from Gamers' Choice Winner Cherry Americas

Working from home and want to upgrade to a custom keyboard or ergonomic keyboard? Cherry Americas located in the Midwest between Chicago and…

Visit With Santa Online Before Christmas

Santa has gone online this year, to meet with children across the world. We caught up with Saint Nick in his workshop this week as he was…

16 Contactless Delivery Services To Make Work From Home Easier

Wild Swan Theater Launches Coding To The Moon Production with Pre-Party Feb 5th

devops

Great Lakes Tech Communities: Buffalo, NY

Quintessence Anx of Buffalo, New York, works for AppDynamics as a tech evangelist for the devops community. Every town around the Great…

Red Hat's Chris Short on Redirecting A War Vet's Energy To Lifelong Learning & Technical Leadership

It's a common story in startup culture: people comfortable with the risks of starting a new business often have a background in which they…

Overcoming Organizational Resistance with PagerDuty's George Miranda

George Miranda speaks at the recent DevOps Days Detroit 2019 at Detroit's College for Creative Studies in New Center. "I get to do non…

Full Videos of DevOps Days Detroit 2019 Now Available

DevOps Days Detroit Day 2: Handling Disasters and Rollouts

environment

environmental-tech

App Helps You Track Your Impact Fighting Climate Change

Do you feel a bit helpless watching the climate change, or are you tired of wondering if each new solution is mere greenwashing or too vague…

Canada will get a 1000 kph vacuum tube train

Photo rendering courtesy TransPod Canada could be getting a 1,000 kph vacuum tube train. The new proposal for a FluxJet was unveiled…

Who Are Chicago's 2021 Tech Unicorns? Meet Aeroseal.

Tech startups have been growing in Chicago since big tech started building second headquarters in the region, including Salesforce's sales…

SkySpecs Wind Turbine Inspection Drone Tech Now Operating In 19 Countries

From Water Pollution to Cannabis Testing: Traverse City's SampleServe Automates Environmental Survey Data

fiction

multimedia-arts

BrandXR Launches Platform & Tools For Creating A 3D Augmented Reality Experience

BrandXR founder Mahmoud Mattan speaks at TEDx Detroit about the human attention span, and how we crave immersive information experiences via…

#1 Rated Ann Arbor Film Festival Now Features High-Tech and Multimedia Art of Ann Arbor

Leslie Raymond, Director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, speaks at the festival in 2017. "It's unusual, experimental, and avant-garde," says…

Fashion & Technology: Terms & Conditions' Peter Michaelides

Moderator Nate Forbes interviews Nike design VPs Paul Rivera and David Creech. The Ross School of Business, which hosted the Michigan…

remote-business

university-of-michigan

A Look Inside The University of Michigan Desai Venture Accelerator

Angela Kujava heads up the Desai Accelerator run out of the Zell Lurie Institute at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. The…

Perch: Indeed.com for Research Labs Launches with Major Universities

Perch engineer Benji Bear (left) and CEO Akira Nishii (right) are part of a diverse team of undergrad and grad students launching Perch in…

Innovate Blue: Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan

Jeni Olney of Innovate Blue at a meeting of Innovation in Action in Ann Arbor in the TechArb work space for student entrepreneurs. Jeni…

user-experience

On Maps & Empathy, with Jonathon Baugh of Pillar

Jonathon Baugh of Pillar studies disparate subjects to draw unique insights into user experience. Jonathon Baugh, Experience Architect…