SOUTHFIELD - The Engineering Society of Detroit has named Matt Roush, former technology editor of WWJ Newsradio 950, as its new Director of Communications and Public Relations. Roush, 57, is a veteran science and technology journalist who has worked in Michigan his entire 35-year career. At ESD, Roush will support the organization?s mission to provide
SOUTHFIELD - In the latest release of the 2014 PayScale College ROI Report, Lawrence Technological University ranked highest in the metropolitan Detroit area and placed in the top 100 colleges and universities nationwide. This report measures the return on investment and increased earning power generated by a college bachelor?s degree. The Seattle-based research firm looked
DETROIT - A National Labor Relations Board ruling that scholarship football players at Northwestern University are ?employees? who may unionize could transform college sports and create an entirely new landscape of labor and funding challenges for school administrators. NLRB Regional Director Peter Sung Ohr said the 85 Northwestern football players who receive grant-in-aid scholarships met
EAST LANSING - The Spartan Spanners of the Michigan State University College of Engineering brought home top honors from this year?s regional Steel Bridge and Concrete Canoe competitions and are headed to nationals in May after receiving four first place honors for overall performance, economy, efficiency and stiffness. MSU?s Concrete Canoe Team finished second place
DETROIT - Attorneys and clients seeking the appointment of a receiver often face the dilemma of uncertainty. The process can be riddled with questions: Will the court appoint the requested receiver? If not, will the court appoint a receiver with knowledge of, let alone specialization in, the subject matter of the receivership? Will the court
DETROIT - New annual reporting obligations under the Affordable Care Act go into effect for 2015. Although the new reporting won?t actually begin until early 2016, your organization will need to look at (and if necessary, modify) its payroll system in 2014 to ensure that it will be capturing the required information throughout 2015. Information
ANN ARBOR - Wayfair has selected LLamasoft as the standard application for supply chain network design and transportation route optimization throughout the company?s global enterprise. Wayfair is a U.S.-based Internet retailer offering home furnishings and d�cor from more than 12,000 brands, with just under $1 billion in revenues in 2013. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., Wayfair
WASHINGTON DC - A new report based on the trove of NSA documents leaked to journalists last year by Edward Snowden says the agency's UK counterpart, the GCHQ, spied on German Internet firms, and it provides more information on the NSA's efforts to monitor German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The report, published in German magazine Der
MENLO PARK, Calif. ? Although mobile media has become an increasingly important channel for information sharing, roughly one in four companies (28 percent) surveyed by Robert Half Technology has no mobile technology strategy. These organizations have a little catching up to do: In the same survey, 70 percent of firms said they have implemented some
SAN FRANCISCO - Alex Stamos, Yahoo?s new chief information security officer, announced several new implementations of encryption in Yahoo products fixing a glaring hole in the Web giant?s user security: Yahoo Messenger. "Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability," Stamos told a small gathering of reporters at Yahoo's