135 Articles in 2020
Happy New Year & Thank You For An Inspiring 2020 @ Cronicle Press
It was a tough year, that needs no emphasizing, except to say we extend our heartfelt sympathies to anyone who lost a loved one from COVID…
Save Pinball Pete's: Popular Lansing and Ann Arbor Arcade Needs Support Through COVID
Pinball Pete's arcade is a favorite haunt of both Ann Arborites and Lansing residents who cherish memories of gathering with friends around…
Collaboration Tool Shuffleboard Launches To Make Remote Teamwork More Accessible
Ann Arbor-based Shuffleboard officially launches today, with a 40% discount for anyone looking for a remote team collaboration tool. The…
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…
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…
SE Michigan Cities Develop a New Highway In the Sky
Recent announcements of Michigan opening a first in the nation autonomous highway corridor between Ann Arbor and Detroit have spurred…
U.S., Midwest, & Global Tech Conferences December 2020
It's already the end of 2020, and many tech events have shifted online. For this month's tech event roundup, we've featured a lineup of…
Cronicle Content Series: Content Marketing Plan #3 -- Podcast
Psychologist and business coach Dr. Rob Pasick runs a networking event called Leaders Connect out of Zingerman's Roadhouse in Ann Arbor, and…
Eoxs Disrupts How Manufacturing Buys Steel
Rajat Jain started in steel, then went to Silicon Valley to learn how to disrupt how the industry purchases steel, a process that still…
Cronicle Content Series: Content Marketing Plan #2 -- Guest Posting & Interviews
The IT in the D podcast features guests from tech startups, and beer. That's pretty much the formula. Content Marketing Plan #2: Guest…
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…
Cronicle Content Series: 5 Ways To Start Content Marketing For Your Tech Startup
"Isn't this supposed to be an overnight success?" asks CEO Dawn Verbrigghe of small business website and marketing startup Jottful at a2tech…
Fintech Startup Pocketnest Explodes onto the Digital Financial Wellness Scene
Pocketnest, a new app for next-gen financial wellness used by top credit unions and companies like Cisco-Diag and The Henry Ford, has…
How Agile Is Adapted for Instructional Design & Online Training
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
This Is Not a Post About Flying Taxis... Yet
Cars are gonna fly any day now, or so the story goes according to the non-transportation media. It's a nice thought, and it will be here…
Workit Health Brings Telemedicine To Addiction Treatment
Telemedicine Brings Privacy & Convenience To Addiction Recovery If you're seeking treatment for addiction, whether alcohol abuse or opioid…
Check out Ann Arbor and Traverse City NewTech Startup Pitch Events Online Nov 3 & 17
Tonight is the monthly TCNewTech pitch event up in Traverse City, now online for the short term due to coronavirus. Starting at 6 pm, you…
Ann Arbor's Censys Hires Security Industry Evangelist Derek Abdine as CTO
Cybersecurity startup Censys, which offers visibility and risk assessment of businesses' constantly evolving security vulnerabilities…
Ann Arbor's Tech Hiring Event Tech Homecoming Continues Virtually November 2020
Ann Arbor's premier tech hiring event, Tech Homecoming, happens Tuesday, November 27, from 3-7 pm. This year it's virtual, so you can attend…
The Budding Small Businesses Security Scene, With Tenacity Cloud
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
AaDya Expands Ann Arbor Security Startup Scene to Detroit
Raffaele Mautone is founder and CEO of AaDya, former Duo Security alum from Ann Arbor. Another security startup has joined the growing ranks…
A New Anti-Inflammatory Treatment Could Aid Sickest COVID Patients
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
Last-Mile EVs Shift The Business Models of Mobility
Mobility startups have been changing lately, and not just in the products they're producing--from pedestrian safety apps to self-driving…
Tech on the Edge Biotech Companies Create New Cancer Treatment Options
Tech on the Edge is an Ann Arbor a2tech360 event that highlights biotech companies working on new technologies for applications from…
TechTalk 2020: Lessons From Entrepreneurship In Changing Times
Susan Wagner of KLA Corporation spoke up front at this year's TechTalk out of Ann Arbor on the importance of diversity and inclusion…
The Ann Arbor Mobility Summit: Autonomous, Electrification, & Mobility as a Service Are Transforming The Future of Transport
Panel: Changing Face of Automotive in the New Normal Carla Bailo, Center for Automotive Research (Moderator) • Bill Frykman, Ford Mobility…
The Applied AI Conference in Ann Arbor Highlights Trends in Artificial Intelligence
A2.AI Conference Highlights Trends in Applied AI This week's a2tech360 conference has continued the newer Applied AI conference, which…
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…
Behind The Scenes at 2030: What The Future Holds, Predicting The Next Decade In Tech
The Impact Economy Opens New Opportunities for Purpose-Driven Work & A Sustainable Future “If we choose, the impact economy can give new…
Ann Arbor's a2tech360 Hosts 16 Different Online Tech Events This Week
It's finally here: Ann Arbor's annual tech week, a2tech360, starts today and runs all next week with 16 online tech events highlighting the…
Online Coaching Finds New Platform with Yottled
Personal training and wellness coaching went online during the COVID-19 shutdown, which put thousands of coaches in charge of their own…
Groundspeed Disrupts Insurance Industry By Analyzing More Data through AI
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
How Do You Take the Passwords Out of Onboarding Hires?
Groove.id, Ross Kinder, Mike Bousquet, Austin security startups, Ann Arbor security startups, tech startup news Austin, Ann Arbor tech…
Blumira Builds On Ann Arbor's Rise as Emerging Security Tech Hub
Blumira Raises $2.6 Million in Seed Round If you're in tech, you know something special has been happening in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the last…
20Fathoms Kicks Off New CyberSecurity Careers Mentoring Program tccyber
For the last year, Traverse City Michigan startup incubator 20Fathoms has been running a program called tccodes, to mentor professionals…
Universal Robots' Vision for Collaborative Automation
Robots Collaborating With Humans, Instead of Replacing Them Automation. It's an unavoidable job stealer, right? Well, maybe sometimes, but…
Over The Air Vehicle Software Updates Are Reshaping An Industry
Passenger cars and trucks have become rolling software updates, and while that has sped up product development cycles, it has created a big…
Michigan & Online Tech Conferences September 2020
This month we've got an entire week of Ann Arbor a2tech360 events, the return of the Ann Arbor Biotech A2 BioSocial, and a number of pitch…
What Would It Take For Ann Arbor To Be The Next Biotech Hub?
This article is a guest post from Cameron McCausland. Cameron is a partner in and currently leads the overall strategy and asset management…
Voxel51 Releases Computer Vision Industry's First Open-Source Rapid Data Experimentation Tool
Ann Arbor startup and TechDisrupt 2019 AI top pick Voxel51 just announced that it has just launched a new tool called FiftyOne, the computer…
Content Marketing Consulting
Cronicle offers content marketing consulting for tech startups and small businesses looking to accelerate their growth and position…
Cronicle Now Offering Business Communications Consulting for Startups
Communications Consulting for Tech Startups We are very happy to announce that Cronicle is now offering communications and content marketing…
Seraph: How A Pathogen-Identifying Startup Navigates a Pandemic
Launching a biotech startup is one of the most complex processes in new business. So what happens when a startup working on technology to…
Washtenaw County's Economic Resilience Uneven But Holds Through COVID
EntryPoint today just released its 2020 Ann Arbor Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Report, which covers everything from 20 years of growth in the…
Censys Raises $15.5 Million, Hiring To Double Staff, As Cybersecurity Startup Announces New Features
The Censys team in Ann Arbor's Main Street offices. In light of the recent Meow attacks that delete vulnerable databases on the internet, we…
What Makes Work From Home Work?
Heidi Hagle, Stefanini VP of People and Culture, works from her home office. Companies everywhere are looking for best practices and tech…
Tech Conferences August 2020
Tech events continue to move mostly online, so this month we are highlighting both local Michigan events and global tech conferences that…
"Bar Napkin" Pitches @ TCNewTech Michigan Tech Virtual Takeover Pitch Competition Tomorrow
TCNewTech pitch competition TCNewTech Welcomes Michigan Tech and Husky Innovate Startups to August Meetup The following is a press release…
David Ponraj's StartupSpace Democratizes Access For Underserved Business Owners
David Ponraj is founder and CEO of StartupSpace Just a little over 2 years ago, David Ponraj decided to do something for underserved…
How Do You Launch A Business During a Pandemic? 100K Ideas Takes Entrepreneurs from Ideation to Launch
Brandee Cooke, Executive Director 100K Ideas "Ferris Wheel Flint is the building--a coworking space with 7 floors and flexible memberships…
Intermitten Change Makers Conference Now Online August 7
Last year, we covered Intermitten: The Conference for Change Makers, as part of our Ann Arbor a2tech360 Tech Week coverage, including…
TU-Automotive Software Conference More Accessible Through Virtual Event August 18-20
We covered TU-Automotive Software Conference in Detroit in 2019, and it was hard to even begin to bring you backstage access to all the…
Flint Uses AI Mapping To Finish Lead Pipe Replacements by Year's End
How do you replace all the lead pipes in Flint when you don't know how many there are? It's a problem now faced by multiple municipalities…
Ann Arbor's A2Tech360 Tech Week Goes Virtual, Moves to September
Just released from Ann Arbor SPARK is the announcement that Ann Arbor's tech week and all associated a2Tech360 programming will be delivered…
5 AI and CyberSecurity Companies Hiring in Ann Arbor-Detroit
If you're looking for a tech job in the Midwest, dozens of companies are still hiring in Ann Arbor-Detroit. Continuing our series from…
Can AI Show Empathy Like a Parent Teaching a Child? realLingua Is About To Show Us
Patent strategy firm Aurora Consulting in Traverse City recently awarded several startups in the Midwest with a RISE Award, which stands for…
3 Detroit & Ann Arbor Tech Companies Hiring Right Now
Tech Companies Hiring in Ann Arbor & Detroit Plenty of tech companies in Southeast Michigan are still hiring during coronavirus, but you…
Software Company UrsaLeo's Ann Arbor Expansion Supports Manufacturers with Digital Twinning Tech
What Is Digital Twinning Tech for Advanced Manufacturing? Enterprise software company UrsaLeo recently announced an expansion into the…
Washtenaw Community College Offers Free Business Planning Support
How To Start A Small Business in Michigan... During Shutdown So you’re laid off, or already thinking of starting a new company, but now it…
Online Tech Conferences & Events July 2020
More tech conferences and tech networking events have shifted online next month, making conferences from Silicon Valley to the Seine more…
Detroit Startup Week Is Online Now
Detroit Startup Week is online this week, bringing you 100 talks from local and national professionals in the tech and startup space. The…
University of Michigan School of Information Students Available for UX and Data Analysis Projects
The University of Michigan School of Information is seeking organizations to host student projects in the 2020-2021 school year…
University Budgets Were Hit Hard: Can Software Help?
Universities everywhere are trying to trim budgets and plan for virtual instruction in case of a second wave in the Fall 2020 semester, but…
Innovation Beyond Borders with TusStar's International Startup Incubators
TusStar is an affiliated network of tech startup incubators and early stage venture accelerators located in over 130 cities around the world…
Behind The Scenes of Midwest Tech During COVID-19
An event at 20 Fathoms in Traverse City, Michigan, a growing coworking and incubator space for startups in northern Michigan. Incubator…
Finally an End-to-End Encryption Video Conferencing Software
Popular video conferencing software Zoom and other remote conferencing tech services have been in the news lately for failing to fully…
Virtual Summer Camps: Now Everyone Can Enjoy Remote Science & Art Camps
As summer camps went virtual across the U.S., we had a sneaky little thought. Who is to know if your kid is doing the remote summer camp…
Protect Michigan Creates New Air Filtration PPE for Frontline COVID-19 Workers Facing High Viral Load
Ann Arbor's maker community has designed a simplified protective face shield with powered filtered flow, a little brother of the high-end…
We Stand With Those Working Toward Justice & Equality
We at Cronicle would like to expect social justice and equality to be the norm. Times like these highlight how far we as a society still…
16 Contactless Delivery Services To Make Work From Home Easier
In a short month, everything from grocery delivery to contactless delivery robots are becoming commonplace as the American workforce adjusts…
How Will We Track COVID-19 Symptoms As Americans Return To Work? An App Attempts To Identify Hotspots
How honest can we expect all workers to be about symptoms of COVID-19 as they return to work they need for economic security and healthcare…
What Happens To Tech Coworking After Shutdown?
Companies around the world are navigating how to reopen after shutdown. In many cases, it simply isn't feasible for workers to return to…
12 Tech Companies & Job Boards For Work From Home Tech Jobs
Tech companies are leading the charge to hire work from home jobs after the poorly contained coronavirus outbreak has left businesses…
Washtenaw County COVID-19 Business Impact Report Now Available
Michigan's business analysis firm EntryPoint has just released the Washtenaw County COVID-19 Business Impact Report to help business owners…
How Tech Startups Are Succeeding During COVID-19
Research labs have been shut down. Small businesses are searching for funding. But it's not all bad news in the emerging tech hubs of the…
Startup LoanSense Uses Algorithm To Help Find The Right Loan Forgiveness Program, Even Years Into Repayment
Catalina Kaiyoorawongs, co-founder of LoanSense, a startup out of emerging tech hub Ann Arbor that uses an algorithm to match users with the…
Global Online Tech Conferences June 2020
In the last month, many tech conferences and tech events have pulled the plug on in-person gatherings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even…
Text Mine COVID-19 Research Using ITHAKA's New Text Mining Service
Text Mining Service For Researching Aggregated Data The idea? Put publicly available datasets all in one place so it's easier for…
COVID-19 Response The Startup Way: First Aid for Entrepreneurs
This is a guest post from ITHAKA Scrum Master Tom Bellinson, whose work has focused on scrum and project management for a variety of…
What Makes A Work From Home Technology Suite Secure?
Overnight with the coronavirus outbreak shutdowns across the world, business owners and employees were asked to convert to work from home…