DETROIT - General Motors Monday announced plans to add a third shift at Flint Assembly, generating 750 jobs for the plant that makes the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra heavy-duty pickups. The shift is expected to start in the third quarter with employees starting to arrive at Flint Assembly in the second quarter. "Adding a
ANN ARBOR - Satisfaction with e-Government web sites slipped slightly, but remains near the all time high set in the third quarter of 2010. The results were released by ForeSeeResults in its American Customer Satisfaction Index E-Government Satisfaction Index. Of the 30 quarters that ACSI has been measuring e-government, three of the top five scores
GRAND RAPIDS ? Business-to-business communications company Alexander Marketing has named Lynne Hartzell to the newly created position of agency President. Hartzell assumes the role of President having most recently served as Alexander Marketing?s Vice President of Business Development where she was responsible for the agency?s nationwide new business efforts, mentoring client service staff and leading
LIVONIA - Steve Futrell, owner of Technology Solutions, was named as one of the ten people who will give ?Definition to the Decade of 2011-2020" in Livonia, Michigan. The City of Livonia recognizes individuals in the community who play an active role in school, church and business as well as those who shape the future
ANN ARBOR - ForeSee Results announced that it has just launched a mobile portal application that will enable clients to access customer satisfaction scores from an iPhone. The mobile portal app is free and provides helpful snapshots of critical customer satisfaction data, including: Summary views for daily, month-to-date, and previous month scores 30-day average scores
GLADWIN - Verizon Wireless has activated a new cell site in Gladwin that improves voice and data coverage in the downtown area. The new cell site, which is equipped with a permanent backup generator for times of emergency. The company's ongoing network investment in Michigan now totals more than $1.5 billion. a>>
LANSING ? Neogen has named Steven J. Quinlan as the Company's chief financial officer to replace the retiring Richard Current. Current will immediately relinquish his responsibilities as CFO, but will remain with Neogen through the end of the fiscal year, May 31. Quinlan joins Neogen following 19 years at Detrex Corporation, the last eight as
ANN ARBOR ? Kai Blum is the new director of Search Engine Marketing for Ingenex Digital, which develops pay-per-click management, search engine optimization and Google AdWords management tools. Blum brings his media monitoring, reputation measurement, pay-per-click management and search engine marketing experience for several Fortune 100 clients to the Ingenex Internet marketing team. Before joining
AUBURN HILLS ? ERP Software maker Plex Systems Tuesday announced additional functionality options for its Plex Online customers who use Salesforce.com, creating a fully cloud-based integration of the lead management process. With a range of ERP features in its comprehensive system, Plex Online is already one of the top SaaS / cloud computing manufacturing solutions.
GRAND RAPIDS ? DornerWorks has published the first installment of ARLX to the open source community. ARLX (ARINC 653, Real-Time, Linux on Xen), is a prototype implementation of the ARINC 653 standard using the virtualization technology of the open source Xen hypervisor along with a Linux-based domain as a system partition. By using a common