LANSING - The number of companies nominated for 2010 Michigan 50 Companies to Watch, a part of the Michigan Celebrates Small Business Awards program, is at the highest level in the six year history of the program. ?We expected a good number of companies to answer the call for applications, and in the end we
WARREN, Mi. - The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center will infuse its ranks with new talent this June through a summer job hire program. TARDEC, the Nation's laboratory for advanced military automotive technology, is seeking high school, undergraduate and graduate-level college students interested in working on science and engineering programs like
GRAND RAPIDS ? MITechNews.Com encourages as many of its readers and listeners as can to financially help provide for the survivors of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti. You can donate directly by texting: "Haiti" to 90999. $10 will be donated and charged to your cell phone bill. If you'd like to select a specific
GRAND RAPIDS - The Fourth Friday Technology Forum, part of The Right Place Program, will be hosting Danny Beckett, president and CEO of Spearia Inc., on Jan. 22 at 7:30 am at CPR in Grand Rapids. Beckett bills himself as a Leader, reality-based visionary, communicator, team builder, and accomplished entrepreneur and professional motorcycle racer across
DETROIT - More signs the auto industry is starting to turn the corner. According to the Detroit Free Press, production in the first quarter in North America is expected to increase 70 percent compared to a year ago. The industry plans to build 2.9-million vehicles this quarter compared to 1.7 million last year. The average
LANSING - After nearly a year of reviewing a proposal to add a high-speed railway that would travel between Detroit and Lansing, workgroup members announced on Tuesday that they would urge the Legislature to go ahead with the proposal, although not without cautionary notes. Chair of the Interstate Traveler Taskforce, Rep. Bill Rogers (R-Brighton), said
LANSING - Senate Republicans placed a bull's-eye Tuesday on public employee pay and benefits as the centerpiece of their efforts to restructure the cost of government, calling for government workers to take a 5 percent pay cut and pay 20 percent of their health insurance premiums. The sweeping plan, which would accomplish the pay cut
MINNEAPOLIS - Seventy-four percent of organizations experienced a data loss incident at their workplace in the last two years. This is one of the key findings of a new survey launched in North America today by Kroll Ontrack, a provider of data recovery and legal technologies products and services. The problem of data loss -
STAMFORD, Conn. - IT budgets will essentially be flat in 2010, increasing by a weighted global average of 1.3 percent in nominal terms, Compared with 2009 levels where IT budgets declined 8.1 percent, that's not bad at all. These are among the results from the 2010 CIO survey by Gartner Executive Programs (EXP). 2009 was
GRAND RAPIDS - Grand Rapids Community College has landed $4 million in stimulus money to train more than 1,000 inner-city residents for green jobs. Those jobs - in energy-efficient building construction, renewable energy and advanced battery manufacturing - pay between $12 and $28 an hour. "We are going to train a lot of people for