Think southeast Michigan business don't spend its fair share of time ahead of the curve? You're not concentrating. Remember when the iPhone came out? Ann Arbor- based
Mobiata adopted the idea of smartphone application creation so early Steve Jobs personally highlighted its
FlightTrack app. Remember when the Internet went mainstream? The guys behind Southfield's
Detroit Trading Company were one of the first to sell cars online in the mid 1990s. Remember when that guy,
Larry Page, went to the University of Michigan... You get the idea.