KALAMAZOO - Jill Bland and Carla Winchester of Southwest Michigan First have been named Finalists in the categories of Female Executive of the Year and Female Innovator of the Year, respectively, in the Stevie Awards for Women in Business. On November 18, they will each ultimately be recognized as Gold, Silver or Bronze Stevie Award
YPSILANTI – For every 100 jobs in information technology, information assurance and cyber security, only 12 are filled by women. On Nov. 4 at the Eastern Michigan University Student Center, a day-long conference will show 330 middle school girls that carriers in STEM can not only be lucrative, but also fun and rewarding, Keynote speakers
ANN ARBOR - Kelli Trosvig will become the University of Michigan's first vice president for information technology and chief information officer, effective Nov. 14. The five-year appointment was approved today by the Board of Regents. Trosvig is currently the vice president for information technology and chief information officer at the University of Washington. The new
STAMFORD - Worldwide PC shipments declined 5.7 percent in the third quarter - the eighth consecutive - the longest decline in the history of Personal Computers. This news comes from Gartner Group. Third quarter shipments totaled 68.9 million units. In the United States, PC shipments totaled 16.2 million units in the third quarter, a 0.3 percent
LANSING - The Public Service Commission has approved a voluntary renewable energy pilot program for DTE Electric Company allowing program participants to obtain a larger amount of renewable energy than the 10 percent mandated by the state's 2008 energy law. The new program will be limited to an additional 150,000 megawatt-hours of generation from company-owned
AUBURN HILLS - Faurecia North American will close two metro Detroit factories resulting in the layoff of 348 employees after FCA US discounted production of its Chrysler 200 and Dodge Dart models. The interiors and emission controls supplier's Merrill Road plant in Sterling Heights and its Masonic Road plant in Fraser will be closed as
DETROIT - Co-working space Bamboo Detroit will be expanding into a new 6,000 square foot office in the Julian C. Madison Building in downtown Detroit early next year. The announcement, made Tuesday, also said the build-out space - which will include private offices - is expected to accommodate up to 300 entrepreneurs, up 161 percent
LANSING - More intense, heavier rainfall has become prevalent in Michigan in recent years, which pushes out more trash, microorganisms, sewage and other nutrients into Michigan waterways. That adds stress to the state's already aging drains and the Great Lakes. Rainfall is not only heavier, it's faster when it's on the ground, making it difficult
LANSING - Bernie Porn of EPIC-MRA, Kelly Rossman-McKinney of Truscott Rossman, and Bill Ballenger, publisher of The Ballenger Report, all agree with statements made on last week’s MIRS Monday Podcast - the 2016 presidential race is effectively over. "I think so," said Porn. "But there have been so many weird things happening that you have
FARMINGTON HILLS – TiE Detroit and AutoNebula, a business accelerator and investment fund focused on connected transport, announced the six finalists of Ignition Lab, Connected Car-Mobility Contest for Start-ups. The competition crowns the best entrepreneurs and start-ups from Connected Transport ecosystem. The contest, launched in August, received entries from companies across the globe. The contest
