GRAND RAPIDS - Register for this exciting all day event and attend amazing sessions with talented business, media, and communication professionals at Midwest Social Media Confab Nov. 10 at the J.W. Marriott in downtown Grand Rapids. The keynote will be presented by the author of "The Mirror Test" and former Kodak CMO, Jeffrey Hayzlett. He?s
ANN ARBOR - Governor-elect Rick Snyder, in naming House Speaker Andy Dillon and former Lt. Governor Dick Posthumus to his administration Monday as treasurer and senior adviser for legislative affairs, respectively, said the pair's experience in both the public and private sector was critical. Just as essential in Dillon's and Posthumus' background is their reputation
LANSING - Governor-elect Rick Snyder is scheduled to hold a news conference on Monday in Ann Arbor naming some of the people who will serve in his cabinet starting in January and one of the names bantered around Friday was House Speaker Andy Dillon. Dillon (D-Redford Twp.), who like Snyder had a business background prior
FRAMINGHAM - The world smartphone market continues to explode. For the first three quarters of this year, vendors shipped more than 200 million units, up two-thirds from the 119.6 million units shipped during the first three quarters of 2009. According to the International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of
NEW YORK - Sprint Nextel Corp. is excluding Chinese telecommunications-equipment makers Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. from a contract worth billions of dollars largely because of national security concerns in Washington, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. The Defense Department and some U.S. lawmakers have been increasingly concerned about the
TROY - The public can learn web development design and techniques at a free monthly meeting of the Walsh College Open Source Community on Saturday, Nov. 13, at the Troy Campus in Room 199. Breakfast and registration will be 9:30 ? 10 a.m., and the program will run from 10 a.m. ? Noon. The Walsh
LANSING ? Gov.-elect Rick Snyder said he doesn't want to move his family from Ann Arbor to the governor?s official residence in Lansing until his youngest daughter, Kelsey, finishes high school. Snyder told the Detroit News he will instead commute to Lansing after he is sworn in Jan. 1. Kelsey is a freshman this year
LANSING - Senate Republicans coalesced Friday around Sen. Randy Richardville of Monroe as their choice for majority leader for the 2011-14 Senate term with Sen.-elect John Proos of St. Joseph dropping out of the race. The Senate GOP will elect its leaders for the upcoming term Tuesday, but any remaining drama will likely involve the
GRAND RAPIDS ? Supercenter chain Meijer announced Thursday it installed an electric vehicle charging station at its Warren store, and plans to install them at stores in Allen Park and Holland. Each store will receive two charging stations which can be used by Meijer customers at no cost. "This is a very exciting step for
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network Inc. announced it is hosting "Data Center Infrastructure Management" as its first online learning class November 16-18. This is the first time the national education community will have the ability to attend a Merit Professional Learning course online. Andy Rosenzweig, manager of professional learning at Merit, is pleased that Merit