Daily Detroit News Byte

You show for September 13th, 2018 from the floor of Digital Summit Detroit. Our feature interview is with Eric Thomas, the founder of Saga Marketing. He recently had a piece in the Financial Times and is locally famous for his LinkedIn blog post, "Why I hate Detroit."  - Detroit's getting a bit more of Silicon Valley's magic. StockX, the Detroit-based Stock Market of Things, just closed on a $44 million Series B funding round with GV, which was previously called Google Ventures. The company says it plans to hire more than 1,000 people in the next year. - How is Detroit's comeback doing? Well here's an interesting indicator. According to data provided by the U.S. Census, the city of Detroit's median household income rose 8% in 2017. That rate is four times the national average of 2%. - A new report suggests that the market for luxury vehicles is on track for a near-record year, thanks largely to the growth in high-end sport utility vehicles. - A pop-up Vespa dealer is opening in the Fisher Building.  - The Sal