DETROIT ? Butzel Long continues its aggressive expansion by hiring three of New York City?s most experienced real estate attorneys. They?ll staff up century and a half old Detroit-based law firm?s office in the Big Apple. The new Butzel attorneys include: Samuel Ofsevit, now a Butzel partner, plus Irwin Reicher and Martin David Schechter who
AUBURN HILLS - Plexus Systems, which provides the Plexus Online on-demand software for the manufacturers, on Friday announced that it has been named as a Top 50 Technology for manufacturing by START-IT magazine. The 2008 START-IT Top 50 Technologies award honors manufacturing technology solutions that help companies improve business practices. "The editors of START-IT selected
KALAMAZOO - Verizon Wireless announced Friday that it has expanded the national rollout of its high-speed wireless network to its Kalamazoo coverage area, including 131 north to Grand Rapids. With this expansion, the following cities?in addition to Kalamazoo?are now equipped with the company?s high-speed wireless network: Constantine, Oshtemo, Otsego, Martin, Portage, Richland, Schoolcraft, Shelbyville, Texas
LAPEER COUNTY - The Lapeer, Michigan, county court system is home to the 40th circuit court, 71A district court, probate court, and juvenile court. The campus consists of the county annex building, county administration building, and the Lapeer County Historic Courthouse. The campus features seven courtrooms, holding cells, offices for judges and other county officials,
AUBURN HILLS ? Tesla Motors, a California electric vehicle manufacturer, has hired Dassault Systemes' CATIA PLM 3D design and product lifecycle management software to help develop its next generation electric vehicle, a 4-door performance sedan. In addition, Tesla has expanded the data management capabilities found in CATIA PLM Express and will deploy ENOVIA SmarTeam?s multi-site
DETROIT ? Toyota has donated $2 million to the Detroit Science Center for the construction of the Toyota Engineering Theater. The theater is scheduled to open in December 2008. The contribution also will help support the Engineering the Future campaign, an initiative to transform the Detroit Science Center into America?s premier engineering-focused museum. Steve St.
GRAND HAVEN ? Luanne Brown, President and CEO of eTool Developers, has won the 2007 Athena Award, which honors an industry person or company for outstanding contributions to promoting the development of women in the automotive aftermarket. Brown was selected from a group of nominees that included Steve Bolio ? Scafidi-Bolio & Associates, Ron Coleman
NEW YORK - Verizon has upgraded its existing network in the Michigan to allow small- and medium-sized business customers to order a static IP address for use with their Verizon High Speed Internet for Business service. A static IP address, a permanent address on the Internet, lets a business make company information available for telecommuters,
LANSING ? Michigan Virtual University, which provides online education courses and resources, has appointed two new board members - Brian Broderick, Executive Director, Michigan Association of Non-public Schools and Neil Marchuk, Executive Vice President of Human Resources, TRW Automotive. Jamey Fitzpatrick, Michigan Virtual University) president and CEO, said the appointments were made at the board
WASHINGTON - NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, Aviation Safety Program, has awarded approximately $246,000 to the University of Michigan for a project called Proactive System Design and Evaluation: Supporting Pilot-Automation Interaction Through Empirical and Modeling Analyses. The award will foster close collaboration with and facilitate the exchange of ideas and information among researchers at NASA,