Ann Arbor Mayor John Hieftje will be making an appearance Friday at GoogleFest, said organizer Chad Wiebesick of the Ann Arbor Ad Club. Wiebesick said Hieftjie will participate in the event’s flash mob from 11:57 a.m. to noon and will speak to the crowd.
The A2Fiber project is coordinating the City of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan's efforts in responding to the Google Fiber for Communities solicitation: "Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today, over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home ...
Although Ann Arbor's attempt to woo Google's high-speed broadband network is generating some social media buzz, the local effort is not among the top 10 cities in digital conversations about Google Fiber, Crain's Detroit Business reported today. Grand Rapids, on the other hand, ranks third in social media buzz behind ...
An event sponsored by the Ann Arbor Ad Club hopes to gather more community support to bring Google’s proposed high-speed Internet to Ann Arbor. “Google Fiber moves the Internet from zero to 100 like a Fiesta to a Ferrari,” will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday on ...
Welcome to Washtenaw County, home of two separate efforts to win Google’s fiber optic investment. By “efforts,” I mean competition. This is, after all, a contest across the U.S. to get communities behind applications to win the nod - and the investment, notoriety and ultra high speed internet functions - ...