AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems Inc., provider of Plex Online, Cloud ERP for manufacturers, announced the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan as its charity partner for 2012. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. Every year, Plex Systems? employees select one or two nonprofits to support and contribute funds to.
BEULAH ? Duke Energy, which had planned to develop a $360 million wind power project in Benzie and Manistee counties, has instead decided to discontinue development of the 16,000 acre project that could have generated up to 200 megawatts of renewable electricity to power about 60,000 homes. In a press release, the North Carolina-based company
LANSING - Having already offered a long list of major policy proposals in his first year in office, Governor Rick Snyder departed from the traditional State of the State address model of offering new ideas to guide the year and instead delivered more of a report card on where the state stands and a call
WIXOM - For every $1 the state invested in nonprofit arts and cultural groups in 2009, those organizations pumped $51 back into Michigan's economy through spending on rent, programs, travel and salaries, a new report says. "Creative State Michigan," a new report from advocacy group Art Serve Michigan, reinforces what ArtServe has known all along,
BIRMINGHAM - Wired's Danger Room is reporting that General Keith Alexander is throwing in the towel. In an address to the FBI sponsored International Conference on Cyber Security he is quoted: "15,000 enclaves: You can't see 'em all. You cannot defend them all," Alexander told an FBI-sponsored gathering of law enforcement and cybersecurity professionals at
LOUISVILLE, Ky. ? Crime fiction author John Locke was the first independently published author to sell more than one million Kindle eBooks using Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform. Now he's the first author to sign a book distribution deal with Simon & Schuster to get his next book into book stores nationwide. Locke, a commercial
LANSING ? The Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced Thursday that the City of Detroit has won a $400,000 Advanced Lighting Technology Demonstration grant to upgrade street lights in six areas of the city. ?The State of Michigan is pleased to partner with the City of Detroit and DTE Energy to replace aging and inefficient lighting
GRAND RAPIDS - The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center announced the schedule for financial tools workshops in metro Detroit in 2012 through June. ?5 Keys to Achieving Fiscal Fitness,? a workshop to help the non-financial manager business owner achieve Fiscal Fitness is a state-wide training program designed to strengthen financial literacy and improve
WHITMORE LAKE ? RheTech has expanded its RheVision biocomposites product line to include agave fiber and coconut fiber. These new biofibers, including RheVision's existing offering of wood fiber, rice hull and flax fiber reinforced polyolefin, are helping RheTech meet the growing demand for environmentally friendly materials that meet the performance characteristics of its customers. ?We
TRAVERSE CITY - Michigan-based Cherry Republic today received approval from the Michigan Economic Growth Authority for a multi-use brownfield redevelopment project that will support the construction of a retail outlet and food production facility and new residential spaces in Traverse City. ?This new Cherry Republic facility consolidates their production, retail and administrative operations and brings