LIVONIA - Valassis has been recognized for the second consecutive year by Advertising Age magazine as one of the "Best Places to Work" in Marketing & Media. Valassis was 38th on Advertising Age's list of the top 40. The Best Places to Work List was determined by the results of two surveys ? one detailing
PLEASANT RIDGE - ePrize has been selected by Advertising Age as a Best Places to Work in Marketing & Media honoree for the second year in a row. Companies awarded as one of the Best Places to Work are selected through evaluation of a company-completed survey, detailing hiring practices, benefits and pay, as well as
LANSING - Liquid Web, a managed hosting provider, now features solid state storage options in its proprietary Smart Servers line. The marriage of SSD-technology to Smart Servers adds I/O speeds that significantly outperformed market standards, to servers that already combined some of the most desirable features from both dedicated servers and cloud infrastructure. Delivering I/O
LANSING - A bill that would raise revenue for roads by $135 million per year, but also reduce revenue to the general fund by the same amount, passed the Senate Tuesday. With the passage of SB 351 , the Senate will instead provide no general fund to the Department of Transportation budget to match federal
PLYMOUTH - Esperion Therapeutics announced positive results from a Phase 2 clinical trial for ETC-1002, an LDL cholesterol lowering drug. This small molecule activator of AMP Kinase has demonstrated preclinical and clinical activity as a metabolic regulator of imbalances in lipid and carbohydrate metabolism. Results were presented Tuesday in an oral presentation at the 2012
TROY - Automation Alley is the new host organization for the Adams Entrepreneur Fellowship, which matches recent talented college and university graduates with early-stage companies in the region. Goals of the program are to highlight entrepreneurism as a viable career choice and to help build a thriving community of serial entrepreneurs while adding innovative high-growth
GRAND RAPIDS ? If you've wanted to read the new cyber crime novella, Cyber Styletto, but were waiting for a deal, your waiting is over. You can buy the eBook for just 99 cents. The novella, the first in a series to highlight the security threats on the Internet today, features Russian-Vietnamese black hat hacker
KALAMAZOO - A new Production Technician Academy is planned to support southwest Michigan-area advanced manufacturing employers. The region?s leading manufacturers, together with key stakeholders from education, workforce development, and economic development have collaborated through the Southwest Michigan Advanced Manufacturing Consortium to draw attention to the great manufacturing career opportunities that exist in the area. The
GRAND RAPIDS ? In 15 years, the concept of privacy will be replaced by an all intrusive social network connected to people who have wireless electronic devices implanted in their bodies, predicted West Michigan serial entrepreneur Keith Brophy in his annual technology forecast. Brophy, CEO at IdeoMed in Grand Rapids, revealed his forecast March 21
ANN ARBOR - The Venture Michigan Fund II has made a $15 million investment in Venture Investors Early Stage Fund V, a venture capital fund that will invest in life science, cleantech and other high-tech companies in Michigan and the Midwest. Credit Suisse?s Customized Fund Investment Group manages VMF II, which plans to invest $120