DETROIT ? Eleven Michiganders are ranked among by Forbes magazine as the wealthiest people in the world, lead by brothers Hank and Doug Meijer ? co-chairmen and grandsons of the founder of the Grand Rapids-based grocery that bears the family name. The Meijers brothers earned the highest ranking of billionaires in the Great Lakes State
SAN FRANCISCO - Total Kickstarter pledges have surpassed $1 billion, the company announced Monday. The total came from 5.7 million donors, and half of the sum was pledged in the last 12 months alone. In Kickstarter's first month in April 2009, its users raised nearly $3,900. Kickstarter, along with competitor Indiegogo, have become funding places
MILFORD - MIPRO Consulting, an Oracle?s PeopleSoft applications integrator, announced that they have been retained by Children?s Hospital Colorado, a national leader in providing children and their families with an integrated pediatric heath care delivery system. The core of this project will involve upgrading the hospital?s PeopleSoft FSCM applications from version 8.9 to 9.2. The
DETROIT - Professor Jeff Ingalsbe puts some of the recent advances in mobile technology showcased at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain in perspective and explores the threats to our privacy that come with these advances. Matt Hampel of Code for Detroit Brigade shares the vision of this group of technologist who want to solve
CUPERTINO, Ca. ? Apple has finally perfected its iOS product for the car, called CarPlay -replication of a simplified iOS interface into a touch-screen display in the car, plus extensive voice command. The focus here is simplicity and safety, with no complex interface elements and, seemingly, no virtual keyboards, CNET News.Com reported. Instead, many actions
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced Wednesday the completion of several upgrades to its statewide, fiber-optic backbone. The upgrades bolster critical paths on Merit's core network to better support bandwidth exchange between Members and improve the flow of traffic to key interconnection points with Internet2, the Tier 1 Internet and content providers. "Our Members continue
SAN FRANCISCO - Android tablets collectively overtook the iPad last year, research firm Gartner said Monday, fueled by a 127 percent surge in worldwide sales. Android tablet sales jumped to 120.9 million in 2013 to snag a global market share of 61.9 percent, up from sales of 53.3 million and a 45.8 percent share in
DETROIT - The Southeast Michigan Purchasing Managers Index for February dipped to 47.3, down from 52.3 in January. A PMI value above 50 generally suggests economic growth. A PMI index value below 50 generally suggests economic slowing. ?Though the southeastern Michigan economy has slowed a bit, there?s no reason to believe that this is a
WASHINGTON DC - The US government's representative to the Supreme Court filed a brief Monday arguing that Aereo, the service streaming broadcast TV over the Web that set up shop in metro Detroit last fall, is violating copyright law, but that doesn't mean all cloud-storage services should be put under the same scrutiny. In an
LANSING - Flint-area employers are invited to attend an informational presentation to learn how the Michigan Advanced Technician Training system can help them develop a skilled workforce with the necessary talents and training for the jobs of today and tomorrow. ?As Michigan?s economy continues to improve, more manufacturing companies are facing a shortage of skilled