YPSILANTI - The Ypsilanti Area Chamber of Commerce and the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce will merge on June 1, after the motion was approved unanimously at a Special Joint Membership meeting of the Ypsilanti Area Chamber of Commerce and its Educational foundation. The adoption of the merger of the Ypsilanti Area Chamber of
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Small Business Administration has proposed changes, including higher surety bond guarantee limits, that will help construction and service sector firms secure larger contracts for work in areas impacted by disasters. The proposed changes, which were published as part of a Proposed Rule in The Federal Register on April 26, include: For
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems, which provides the manufacturing ERP software called Plex Online, Tuesday announced that it had recurring revenue growth of 28 percent in the first quarter of 2010 compared with the same quarter in 2009. Total revenue grew 18 percent quarter over quarter. The company also added eight new customers and continued
LANSING - Community colleges would not see their funding increase, but it wouldn't fall either under the budget plan approved Tuesday by the House Appropriations Community Colleges Subcommittee. The subcommittee replaced the 3.1 percent the Senate had cut from the budget (SB 1151 ), but it did not specify a revenue source beyond the general
LANSING - Crowded into three levels of the Capitol rotunda, transportation funding advocates on Tuesday announced that over the last three months, they have collected 5,000 signatures on a petition that urges lawmakers to increase taxes in order to restore road, bridge and public transportation funding. Truck drivers, local and state lawmakers and hundreds of
BUCHANAN - The principals of Precept Partners, an Internet technology consultancy, announced the launch of its new NetNitroX package of integrated analysis, design and marketing services. "Our NetNitroX solution has been distilled from everything we've learned generating over a hundred million dollars of revenue online," said Managing Partner Stephen Antisdel. "It's a proprietary combination of
ANN ARBOR ? Managed Data Center Operator Online Tech has introduced its third generation hosting backup service - OTBackup ? now available to all of Online Tech's managed server, colocation, and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) clients. OTBackup provides continuous data backup between Online Tech's two Michigan data centers in Ann Arbor and Flint. The data centers are
WASHINGTON ? Warning that "tracking and targeting of consumers online have reached alarming levels," a coalition of 11 consumer and privacy advocacy organizations sent a letter to Congress outlining the protections any online privacy legislation must include. The coalition said that industry self-regulation has not provided meaningful consumer protection and stressed that legislation is needed.
WARREN ? Middle- and High-School students from around Michigan have been invited to Macomb Community College May 4-5 to learn about future, attainable careers in robotics and engineering and see the latest trends for semi-autonomous robotics in action. The event ? ?Robotics, Engineering and Technology Week? ? is being hosted for the fourth consecutive year
BIRMINGHAM ? Last month's hearing on the nominations of Keith Alexander to head CYBERCOM (and Admiral Winnfield to head NORAD and NORTHCOM) were the first time that operational responsibilities of CYBERCOM have been discussed in a public forum. The Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Senator Carl Levin (D Michigan) began by posing three scenarios