WASHINGTON DC - Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and the University of Notre Dame are working with Internet2 and Rackspace Hosting to build an OpenStack-based hybrid cloud environment for the research and education community. The new Internet2 NET+ services are expected to be available to other
LANSING - The Department of Education announced Friday that the Genesee Intermediate School District won the $5 million grant to run a pilot program providing technology services to at least five schools, not the company run by Budget Director John Nixon's brother. iSchool Campus had pitched the idea to the Legislature of placing some funding
AUBURN HILLS - Chrysler Group received international recognition for its commitment to environmental stewardship at the Wildlife Habitat Council's 25th Annual Symposium, Celebrating Corporate Conservation. The Company achieved Wildlife at Work certification for its Chrysler Group World Headquarters and Technology Center. ?Chrysler Group is being recognized as an industry leader in corporate conservation,? said Margaret
PETOSKEY - Verizon Wireless' Petoskey store is one of 100 in the nation and the second Smart Store in Michigan to open this year. The company unveiled its first ?Destination Store? Tuesday at The Mall of America in Minnesota. The initiative, combined with the redesign of 1,700 company-owned retail stores during the next few years
BATTLE CREEK - The Corn Marketing Program of Michigan, Michigan Soybean Promotion Committee and Michigan Wheat Program are collaborating on a new event for crop farmers in the Great Lakes Region, called the Great Lakes Crop Summit, scheduled for Jan. 22-24, 2014, at FireKeepers Hotel and Casino. The inaugural summit for crop farmers will feature
TROY - Association for Corporate Growth Detroit Chapter will host its eighth annual Mingle Bells fund raiser Dec. 3 at the Troy Marriott Hotel. This holiday event that has raised more than $23,000 for non profits in Metro Detroit. The recipient of this year's Mingle Bells fund raising will be Common Ground (www. commongroundhelps.org), an
DETROIT ? NextUP, a specialized leadership development program for high-potential women early in their careers, will be offered in both Southeast and West Michigan in February 2013 by the Inforum Center for Leadership. Applications due December 6. The program is designed to help women overcome traditional roadblocks and achieve early and enduring success in a
DETROIT - Compuware Corp. added two new board members Thursday. Joining the board were Jeffrey J. Clarke, managing partner at Augusta Columbia Capital Inc., a New York City-based tech-focused private equity firm, and Jennifer J. Raab, president of Hunter College, the largest college in the City University of New York system. Leaving the board are
ANN ARBOR - A survey showed U.S. consumers continue to have little faith in the federal government, and various fiscal crises, including debates about the debt ceiling, the fiscal cliff and the partial government shutdown, do not help, causing consumers to remain grim in their economic outlooks. Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters, University
ANN ARBOR- Steady job growth over the next two years will bring Michigan back to job levels posted just prior to the 2008-09 Great Recession and nearly halfway back to mid-2000 levels, say University of Michigan economists. In their annual November forecast of the Michigan economy, George Fulton and colleagues Joan Crary and Donald Grimes