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Ann Arbor's a2tech360 Is Back in 2022
HumanElement wins a FastTrack award for rapid business growth at a2tech360 2021. Have you been waiting for a2tech360, Ann Arbor's tech week…
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…
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…
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…
Voxel51 Releases COVID-19 Physical Distancing Impact Trend Analysis Tool
Ann Arbor's Voxel51, which offers advanced machine learning tools to analyze video, has just released a tool that looks at the social impact…
A Better Graphic Tablet for the Blind
Sure, there are braille tablets these days that are pretty amazing. They translate several words or lines of text from websites into raised…
Midwest Tech Groups Online
It goes without saying that it has been a hard week globally and that includes in Michigan, for professionals and families scrambling to…
February 2020 Michigan Tech Events
Ann Arbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids Tech Events February 2020 It's already that time again, our monthly Cronicle tech events post for Ann Arbor…
Support Midwest Tech News Coverage By Becoming a Patron
Support Our Expanding Coverage of Midwest Tech News Happy New Year, everyone! We are excited to kick off this new year with expanding…
Cronicle's Top 3 Midwest Tech News Stories of 2019, According To You
It's New Years Eve, so we're looking back at the most popular posts on Cronicle Press Tech News out of Ann Arbor-Detroit about the growing…
Sam Pierce Lolla's Shuffleboard Hacks Product Development Collaboration From Ann Arbor To Silicon Valley
Sam Lolla is one of the creators of MadeinA2.com and the founder and director of Directed Works, a company focused on product development…
MVCA's Executive Director Ara Topouzian Balances Economic Development with Award-Winning "Side Hobby" in Armenian Music
Ara Tapouzian of the MVCA at right plays with his award-winning Armenian band at TechCity Jam in Ann Arbor. We met him at the TechCity Jam…
Human Element, of Top 20 Fastest Growing Companies in Michigan, Creates The Kind of Culture They Want To Stay In
Human Element's offices are located at the west end of the Broadway bridge in north Kerrytown, which makes the parking tricky but the…
BOAA Technology Industry Group President Michael Cole On The Tech Financing Process, Tech City Jam Friday
Bank of Ann Arbor Technology Industry Group courtesy graphic. When new businesses start up, arranging financing can be fraught. When that…
Black Belt SEO Tips With Nick Suino of Michigan SEO Group
Nick Suino stands outside Three Chairs Co. on the west side of Ann Arbor. He grew up just blocks northwest of here, which in the Sixties was…
Thank You, Ann Arbor Tech, for 100 Articles!
The founders of Finji Games laughing through an interview about their latest (courtesy photo). Finji's post was one of our most popular, and…
Arbor Biosciences Uses AI and Machine Learning for Genomic Sequencing Analysis
Senior Research Scientist Ben Steil and Senior Applications Scientist Tyanying Lan stand next to an Arbor Biosciences Illumina DNA sequencer…
Mentors of Michigan Tech: Jim Price of U of M Ross School of Business
Jim Price is a serial entrepreneur who found his passion teaching and coaching young entrepreneurs through the Zell Lurie Institute at the…
Rob Pasick's Leaders Connect Breakfast Brings Tech Leaders Together To Talk Google Culture
Matt and Stacey, both Ann Arbor Googlers, talk about company culture and how the tech giant handles rapid change with transparency. Nice to…
How To Get Into Tech When You Didn't Start There: An Interview with Mobile Mondays' Rob Baxtresser
It's not uncommon for people with a degree in music to end up in tech, not just for the jobs but because people with musical training often…
Voxel51 Chosen As AI Top Pick To Present at Tech Disrupt 2019
The Voxel51 team, co-founder Jason Corso center. Co-founder and CTO Brian Moore fourth from left in rear. Ann Arbor's Voxel51, an AI startup…
Orangesplash's Geoxhibit Brings Interactive Machine Learning To Museums & Zoos
Designer Eszter Boldog left and Peter Lauwers right in the Orangesplash offices behind the meeting rooms of Arbormoon Software downtown Ann…
Scavenger Is An Augmented Reality Scavenger Hunt For Adults
It's been decades since we did a scavenger hunt, but these days augmented reality seems just the thing to make these old-fashioned games…
Tech Startup hEARt Brings An Empathetic Ear To Students Everywhere
College campuses have been through a number of crises lately, from dealing with increasing academic pressure to a growing number of active…
Alfa Jango Acts As CTO and Development Team for Startups
Alfa Jango founder Steve Schwartz stands in the company catacomb-style conference room in front of a number of checks written to his…
Ann Arbor & Detroit Tech Events: August 2019
It's already creeping up on August and time for more tech meetups. We're adding more Detroit tech events this month as we begin to expand…
Register By August 16th for the 10th Annual Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition
November 19th, 2019, at the State Savings Bank in Detroit, Invest Detroit will be holding their 10th annual Accelerate Michigan Innovation…
Tech Consultancy Llamasoft Announces $10.7 Million Expansion, Adds 70 Jobs
Ann Arbor-based supply chain software development consultancy Llamasoft yesterday announced an expansion that will bring another 70 jobs to…
Award-Winning Finji Games Launches Overland Apocalyptic Road Trip Game
Sometimes you hear a Michigan "we had to leave because of the economy story" and it makes you happy, because success lay elsewhere--and then…
Optimize: The Student-Led Impact Venture Incubator Grows Up
In 2013, a group of University of Michigan students wanted to support each other's startup ventures. Some were tech focused, others social…
Mentors of Michigan Tech: Tom Meloche & The History of Agile Programming
Helene Gidley and Tom Meloche of a2agile give us a tour of their space in Office Evolutions co-working space on Eisenhower. Each room is a…
How Do You Ask For Help At Work? Give & Take Launches Givitas Software To Leverage Reciprocity
The man who founded popular ForeSee Results survey software you've seen on websites from Realtor.com to U.S. government websites is back…
Gradient Valley Builds New Machine Learning AI Company in Ann Arbor
Gradient Valley founder Keith Bourne presenting about machine learning development on Google Cloud Platform at DevFest conference in…
BrandXR Launches Virtual Reality Business and Interactive AR Murals
An Orlando augmented reality-enhanced mural by Brand XR's Moody Mattan and several partners. Moody Mattan of BrandXR, a newer augmented and…
Mentors of Michigan Tech: Ed Vielmetti and A2B3
Vielmetti smiles a lot more than this in real life. Courtesy photo. If you've been in Ann Arbor tech for more than a decade, you might have…
Popular Research Site JSTOR Plans Expansion To User-Uploaded Content
ITHAKA president Kevin Guthrie speaks at TechTalk 2019 during Ann Arbor's a2tech360 tech week, at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor. We saw…
KLA-Tencor Celebrates Opening of $70M Headquarters in Ann Arbor
KLA's John Mclaughlin announces a corporate expansion during Tech Talk 2019 before explaining how the company handles extremely high…
And We Leave You With Hack:A2 Hackathon
Teams work out their projects with Netscout AVP Engineering Lon Lowen standing left. A team in the Netscout lobby hashes out assignments…
Tech Trek: How Trick or Treating for Geeks Turned to 6,000 People and a 10-Day Journey Through Future Tech
Tech Trek signs at Grizzly Peak, where the restaurant along with half a dozen others downtown had discounts and freebies. Tech Trek walking…
Tech Talk 2019: Thought Leaders Speak on the State of Technology in Ann Arbor and Beyond
The speakers of Tech Talk on stage. Kevin Guthrie of ITHAKA talked about challenges in education. Clervius talks about how he got into…
Behind The Scenes Intermitten 2019: The Conference for Changemakers
Intermitten 2019 kicks off. Intermitten co-founder and president Heidi Craun addresses the crowd. Laura Khalil and young entrepreneur…
Tech-Inclusive Lowers Barriers to People Entering the Tech Industry
An Intro To Programming class put on by Tech-Inclusive. Ronda Bergman pictured left. Courtesy photo. What does tech need more of? What we…
Ann Arbor-based Clinc AI Announces $52 million Series B
A Clinc team tackles a quick meeting in their second-floor office at Cahoots in downtown Ann Arbor the week before the announcement of a $5…
What Is It Like To Manage a 65,000-Person Slack Channel?
Jeff Sica sits down with Cronicle on Liberty across from the Michigan Theater. Legend has it that if you sit still long enough in the ITHAKA…
Log Your Travel Adventures with Zonder
Harry Yang and Demi Yang pose in front of the art of local "fairyologist" sketch artist Jonathan B. Wright, the man behind the Ann Arbor…
Apply To Speak at DevOps Days Detroit 2019
Do you love DevOps? Yeah, well, some people do. DevOps Days Detroit has quickly taken off as a favorite small (for now) conference for…
Welcome to Cahoots, The New Front Door of Ann Arbor Tech
When Alison Todak, the managing director of the new Cahoots coworking space for tech workers in downtown Ann Arbor, offered us a tour…
Kinetica Labs Launches New Ergonomic Software
The Kinetica Labs MotionCapture app allows the user to take a video with a smartphone for upload to analyze ergonomic risk of a worker…
Attend (or Judge!) The New Enterprise Forum Pitch Pit
Every other month on the third Thursday of the month, the New Enterprise Forum meets in the Lower Level of SPARK Central on Liberty at 5:0…
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…
Ann Arbor Tech Professionals: Call for Interviews
Cronicle Press launched just over a month ago, and already has 1,000 users, thanks in large part to you, the professionals of Ann Arbor tech…
Eric Shapiro: The Oscar The Grouch MacHack Guy
Eric Shapiro poses outside popular Downtown Home and Garden in downtown Ann Arbor, where the first flowers of the season are for sale. Do…
Innovation Not Break Fix with RightBrain Networks
Jamie Begin, founder of RightBrain Networks and DevOps Days Detroit. Courtesy photo. "I guess one of our challenges is that we've been…
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…
Entire Interview Redacted with Blue Newt Software's Bob Kuehne
If Cronicle ever gives out a Nicest Dude/Dudette in Tech Award, the first one is going to Bob Kuehne of Blue Newt (not to mention his super…
Falling Into Fame with David Adrian of Censys
A network guy in his native habitat. David Adrian, Co-founder and Engineering Manager at Censys on the streets of Ann Arbor. It's not every…
Mentors of Michigan Tech: Gerry Roston
Gerry Roston, CEO of Civionics and mentor at TechTown Detroit. Courtesy photo. Even undergrad students at the University of Michigan now…
Reinvestment & A2 Culture with Jordan Martz of Databricks
The problem with growing Ann Arbor tech faster than it's already growing, according to Databricks Solutions Architect and Partner Jordan…
Ann Arbor Tech Networking with Brooke Boyle of Engage
Courtesy photo. Of all the people you should meet if you are interested in meeting new people in Ann Arbor, particularly in tech, the one…
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…
Leadership & Team Building with Orchestructure Founder Mario Loria
Photo courtesy Mario Loria. Mario Loria is still in his late twenties, but on his team at super hot Detroit-based startup StockX, the…
Peerstachio: A Student Venture About Connection Connects with A2 Tech
Peerstachio is a social platform for connecting students with peers for academic help. In our recent two-part series on the student…
Who Is Cronicle Press?
Cronicle Press is you, the Ann Arbor tech community. We don't talk enough. We don't follow each other on Twitter. We come to occasional…
UX Ignite Michigan 2019
It was packed to capacity and standing room only. The sixth annual UX Ignite meetup on user experience held this year at Circ Bar next to…