TROY - Jim Townsend, executive director, tourism economic development council of the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau, will brief Automation Alley members June 4 on what companies are doing to build the Detroit brand and how you can use elements of the campaign in your marketing materials. Detroit has been rebranded and tourism numbers
GREENVILLE - United Solar Ovonic, which makes solar laminate products in a town that lost 10,000 jobs when Electrolux moved an appliance factory to Mexico, started hiring the first of 400 new employees on Monday, very good economic news for this hard pressed mid Michigan town. The company, based in Auburn Hills, recently began planning
DETROIT - A net 9 percent of chief information officers in the Detroit area expect to hire information technology professionals in the third quarter of 2008, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report. Thirteen percent of executives surveyed plan to add staff during the quarter and 4 percent
LOS ANGELES - Shell is preparing to open a fueling station in west Los Angeles later this month that will dispense gasoline or, for the right car, hydrogen. Duncan Macleod, vice president of Shell Hydrogen, provided this update during a keynote talk Tuesday at the CTSI Clean Technology conference, where he said that the Santa
DETROIT - In recent months, General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner has signaled that change was in the offing and that the company's future depended upon more fuel-efficient vehicles. So it was that today GM announced reversed its years-old strategy in what likely was a surrender to $4-plus gasoline prices at the pump for many Americans
MACKINAC ISLAND - With the Detroit Auto Dealers threatening to pull the North American International Auto Show from Detroit if Cobo Hall is not expanded soon, Southeast Michigan leaders agreed Friday to ad urgency to their deliberations. But they didn�??t come up with a framework to accomplish the task. Though the four leaders agreed the
MACKINAC ISLAND - Several of the proposals Governor Jennifer Granholm has made in the past three years have bogged down in the Legislature, so Friday she asked members of the Detroit Regional Chamber to help her get those issues moving. In one case she offered a direct payback for that help. Though she did not
DETROIT - Dan Mulhern, First Gentleman for the State of Michigan, will honor finalists and winners of the Midwest Collaboration and Corporate Commitment To Michigan awards June 4 at the Midwest Technology Leaders cocktail reception at the Detroit MGM Grand Hotel. The Midwest Collaboration Award honors partnerships between Midwest companies and local individuals or groups
SAN FRANCSICO, Ca. - Small business owner optimism continues on a five-quarter decline, according to the recent Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index survey conducted in April. The Index score dropped to 48, the lowest level reported since the survey's inception in August 2003, when the score was 69. The most recent results represent a 35-point
TROY ? The Walsh College IAC Center will host a week-long seminar June 14 to prepare security professionals for the CISSP certification exam. The minimum professional experience requirement for CISSP certification will be five years of relevant work experience in two or more of the 10 domains of the CISSP CBK, or four years of