GRANDVILLE - Trivalent Group has appointed Jennifer Puplava, member and attorney at Mika Meyers Beckett & Jones, to its Board of Directors as one of its two outside board members. ?Jennifer has been a longtime supporter of Trivalent Group and has even been a speaker at our Solutions Expo and Cyber Security events,? said Trivalent
TROY - Altair Wednesday announced 11 nominations for the 2nd Altair Enlighten Award, presented in collaboration with the Center for Automotive Research, is the automotive industry?s only award program created specifically to acknowledge innovations in vehicle lightweighting. The winner will be announced during the ?Featherweight Competition: Agile, Light, and Strong? session of the 2014 CAR
LANSING - Two separate federal circuit courts of appeals issued conflicting rulings on the same issue in the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Tuesday on the question of whether residents in state operating under the federal health care exchange can receive tax subsidies to purchase insurance. One ruling held that residents in
LANSING - The Strategic Fund approved five Michigan Business Development Program incentives on Tuesday, with expansions for automotive or solar companies coming to Albion Township, Watertown Township, Troy, Benzonia and China townships, and Saginaw Township. Suniva, Incorporated, which manufactures high-efficiency solar cells and high-power solar modules, will create a new manufacturing facility in Saginaw Township,
LANSING - The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was viewed by 600 likely voters in statistically equal proportions of "mostly negative" or "neutral," and more than three-quarters of respondents said they were either "very concerned" or "somewhat concerned" about the discrepancy between what the state is providing for road funding and what it
LONDON - Apple and IBM announced a strategic partnership whereby IBM will sell iPhones and iPads to its business customers, and will develop cloud services optimized for Apple?s iOS. Apple will provide hardware support for devices through a dedicated large-enterprise AppleCare program. Apple?s need to develop the enterprise market for iPhones is imperative ? and
DETROIT - Almost everybody thinks that the systems that power our society are secure. Nonetheless, computer crime has officially surpassed the drug trade for profitability and God only knows what the world?s various nation states are up to when it comes to stealing each other?s secrets. So, ?What?s the problem?? The problem stems from the
TROY - Altair plans to acquire Visual Solutions, makers of VisSim, an innovative visual language for mathematical modeling, simulation, and model-based embedded system development used by scientists and engineers around the world. The transaction is expected to close by the end of July. Terms were not announced. "Product innovation is increasingly driven by embedded systems,
ZEELAND - Herman Miller announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Design Within Reach, a Stamford, Connecticut-based marketer and seller of modern furniture, lighting and accessories, for $154 million in cash. The Company will acquire an ownership interest in DWR equal to approximately 84 percent, subject to adjustment for net debt, changes
JACKSON - An independent national survey has ranked Consumers Energy as the top "environmental champion" among providers of electricity and natural gas in the Midwest. The new survey results, released by Cogent Reports, a division of Market Strategies International, also rank Consumers Energy as the second-most trusted electric and natural gas provider in the Midwest,