LA MIRADA, Calif. - The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California has established five new 100 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) links between the California Research and Education Network and Internet2. Two new 100G connections in Los Angeles will support a variety of research purposes, along with a third 100G connection at Sunnyvale that will
LANSING - Michigan Corporate Relations Network this week announced five more Michigan companies have won Small Company Innovation Program grant awards. The new grants, designed to promote research partnerships between Michigan small businesses and the universities comprising MCRN, are in addition to eight awarded in May as part of the latest round of SCIP grant
LANSING - Press conferences were held in Lansing and Detroit on Wednesday by activist groups in an effort to draw support for HB 4554 , which would raise the minimum wage in Michigan to $10 an hour by 2016. In Lansing, Danielle Atkinson, director of Mothering Justice, said that there is a need for the
ANN ARBOR ? Integrated digital marketing leader Pure Visibility has hired three new employees for key management jobs. Todd Hall is taking the helm as VP of Sales and Business Development. Hall joins the team from Cleveland, Ohio, and brings with him more than 15 years of digital marketing experience. Todd?s previous roles include Director
NOVI - ITC Holdings Corp., the nation's largest independent electric transmission company, reported net income of $47.4 million or 90 cents a share in the second quarter ended June 30, up from $42.4 million or 81 cents a share in the same quarter a year earlier. Revenue was $229.8 million, up from $197.4 million a
DEARBORN - Ford Motor Company reported second quarter 2013 pre-tax profits of $2.6 billion, reflecting improvement by all business units compared with a year ago. North America, the company's largest region, set records for second quarter and first half pre-tax profits. Asia Pacific Africa, the company's fastest-growing region, achieved its best-ever quarterly pre-tax profit. Ford
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan's Ross School of Business announced Wednesday the appointment of Stewart Thornhill as the executive director of the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, pending approval of the University of Michigan Board of Regents. He is the successor to Tom Kinnear, who has been the
ANN ARBOR - Six Michigan companies recently received investments from the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund totaling $1.5 million. So far, 89 Michigan companies have received more than $20 million in seed funding from a collaborative effort of Michigan?s SmartZones. What?s more, Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund companies have attracted more than $27 million in matching grant
WASHINGTON ? U.S. House lawmakers on Wednesday defeated an attempt to drastically curb a national-security program that collects the phone records of millions of Americans, after a tense debate on the balance between privacy rights and government efforts to find terrorists. The measure was narrowly defeated, 205-217, after last-minute lobbying by the Obama administration and
MUSKEGON ? The Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center is hosting a briefing on Aug. 15 to update the public on a wind turbine floating platform system, what has been described as the next generation of marine wind turbine design. Charles Nordstrom, naval architect and marine engineer with Glosten Associates, will discuss the Glosten Pelastar