DETROIT ? NextEnergy announced that Paul F. Skalny, recently retired from the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, has joined the company's Board of Directors. Skalny recently retired from TARDEC, where he held numerous leadership roles over the course of 25 years. His tenure for the Army spanned more than 32 years and
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Apple reported record revenue of $46.33 billion and profits of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per share, for the quarter ended December 31, 2011, nearly double the $26.74 billion, or $6.43 per share, the company reported in the same quarter a year ago. "We're thrilled with our outstanding results and record-breaking sales of
LANSING - After what one GOP official called the moral equivalent of a landslide victory in the South Carolina primary by former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the February 28 primary in Michigan has taken on a renewed importance in the scheme of presidential politics. Before Gingrich won the primary with 40 percent of the
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems, provider of Plex Online FSMS, an enterprise food safety management system, Tuesday announced the first in a new food safety webinar series, "Hear the Latest on the Food Safety Modernization Act," on Jan. 31. With new regulations for 2012 set to be released, food processors, importers, and growers will need
DENVER - American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled in what could become a precedent-setting case. Judge Robert Blackburn ordered a Peyton, Colo., woman to decrypt the hard drive of a Toshiba laptop computer no later than February
ANN ARBOR - The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business Tuesday announced that eight teams will advance to the semi-finals of the annual $60,000 Michigan Business Challenge. The multi-round business plan competition attracted 45 teams of 145 students from across the University
LANSING ? Michigan companies that pre-pay state gas sales tax will get a break beginning March 1, as the new rate the state will charge for bulk purchases of fuel takes effect. The Department of Treasury earlier this month issued Revenue Administrative Bulletin 2012-1 setting a change from the prepaid sales tax rate from the
DETROIT ? Michigan could add 500,000 new jobs and see personal incomes rise by $18,000 per person in the next eight years, predicts the Business Leaders for Michigan in a report released Tuesday. The report, backed by research conducted by McKinsey & Co, provides a 10-year vision for growing the New Michigan economy. Ford Motor
LANSING - Now that some of the smoke has cleared over the state's film incentive program, moviemakers should be getting back in line to work in Michigan, Film Commissioner Carrie Jones told the House Appropriations General Government Subcommittee on Tuesday. The state has only seen two applications for incentives since it began accepting applications on
DETROIT - Daniel Radomski has returned to NextEnergy as Vice President, New Market Services. He had previously worked at the alternative energy group in value-chain mapping and economic development strategy. Radomski?s key responsibilities will be to oversee the development, delivery, and generation of NextEnergy?s value-chain analysis and business-growth services to suppliers, ventures, and OEMs operating