ANN ARBOR - Increasingly popular techniques that infer species boundaries in animals and plants solely by analyzing genetic differences are flawed and can lead to inflated diversity estimates, according to a new study from two University of Michigan evolutionary biologists. Lacey Knowles and Jeet Sukumaran investigated the accuracy of inferences made by a mathematical model
ANN ARBOR - This week the Desai Accelerator announced its next round of startups and its new managing director, U-M alumna Angela Kujava, formerly the director of innovation for the global application development firm Logic Solutions. Angel has more than a decade of experience working with entrepreneurs, will build on the Desai program. The next five
ADA - Benefits administration service provider Next Generation Enrollment has been acquired by Florida-based PlanSource, which provides cloud-based benefits and HR software. The transaction closed on January 20. Terms were not announced. Next Generation Enrollment offers services to help automate the process of employee benefits administration, including total benefits outsourcing, call centers, ACA services, billing
BRIGHTON - In September, Lake Trust Credit Union launched a new membership promotion that would award one lucky new member $150,000 - and $50,000 to an existing member who referred a new member who joined between September 1 and December 31, 2016. This week, the Credit Union celebrated with Robin (no last name provided), of
DETROIT - Tonya Matthews PhD, president and CEO at the Michigan Science Center, has been appointed to Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Matthews will join the chairman and 13 other members on BOSE, a standing board that guides a portfolio of work on science education broadly conceived
ROCHESTER HILLS - Just about every business these days is getting hacked. For example, at the beginning of June, the Twitter and Pinterest accounts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg were breached because he used a common password: “dadada”. Zuckerberg was lucky, however, since the hack was conducted by a company testing his security. Zuckerberg is not alone.
WASHINGTON DC - Rep. Mike Pompeo will lead the Central Intelligence Agency, after the US Senate confirmed his nomination Monday evening in a vote of 66 to 32. Pompeo, a graduate of West Point and Harvard Law, currently represents Kansas in the House of Representatives. Casting some of those no votes were senators who raised
SAN FRANCISCO - If you're worried someone's trying to hack into your Facebook account, now you can lock it up with a key. On Thursday, the social media giant said it would let users link a hardware token to their accounts. When you log in from new browsers or geographic regions, you can plug the
DETROIT - GlobalAutoIndustry.com, the leading global business intelligence source for the automotive industry, Wednesday launched Global Business Professor, a premium online education subscription service that helps busy professionals and business school students accelerate their global business expertise. "With Brexit uncertainty, potential trade wars, intellectual property infringement, tax and transfer pricing issues, and other daily challenges,
TROY - The fourth quarter of 2016 ended on a high note for Automation Alley, Michigan’s leading technology business association, as its international business team conducted successful trade missions in both Cuba and Mexico and assisted in attracting Chinese robotics company DUO Robotic Solutions Inc. to Southeast Michigan. Automation Alley traveled to Mexico with 11
