TROY - Southeast Michigan-area employers are invited to attend on March 4 at Automation Alley 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 21st century jobs. ?As Michigan?s economy continues to improve, more manufacturing companies are facing
DETROIT ? The Engineering Society of Detroit has opened nominations for the ESD Alpha Awards for Innovation in Engineering and Technology to recognize and celebrate the creative and original ideas of men and women in the engineering and technology professions who develop innovative solutions to benefit the needs of the general public, business or academia.
WHITMORE LAKE - RheTech Inc., a leading thermoplastics compounder supplying the transportation, construction, electronics and consumer markets, announced that they have added 10,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space to their facility in Whitmore Lake. The new warehouse, which was designed and constructed by ClearSpan, will store finished goods and raw material, reflecting the growth RheTech
LANSING - The Michigan Senate passed a supplemental appropriations bill Thursday for the current fiscal year addressing funding road maintenance, what is expected to be a major cost after the long hard winter with extreme temperatures. SB 608 cleared the Senate on a 32-6 vote, with Sen. Darwin Booher (R-Evart), Sen. Jack Brandenburg (R-Harrison Township),
LANSING ? Michigan House Speaker Jase Bolger unveiled an auto insurance overhaul on Thursday that would provide 10 percent yearly savings in premiums for two years, a $10 million cap on catastrophic medical benefits and more transparency within the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association. Bolger (R-Marshall) said he has addressed all of the opposition's complaints about
ROCHESTER ? Fred Ferber built a number of successful corporations on the strength of a business distribution software suite that provides comprehensive business intelligence. Conveyorware ?All-in-One? Business Distribution SaaS Software is now for sale. What is Conveyorware? A complete business and accounting Software-as-a-Service package unlike any other on the market today that can help millions
ANN ARBOR - Customer satisfaction has improved for a third consecutive year at retailers, boosted by higher customer satisfaction with specialty retail stores, supermarkets, drug stores, and gasoline service stations. This news come from the American Customer Satisfaction Index . The retail sector overall gains 1.7 percent to an ACSI benchmark of 77.9. A fourth
SAN FRANCISCO - Sorry, Android, but you just got some more competition in wearables. A new version of Samsung's Gear smartwatch will run the company's Tizen software instead of Google's Android operating system, people familiar with the matter told CNET News.Com. Samsung will unveil the device at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, the
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft announced Wednesday it will dole out 100 GigaBytes of extra space to the first 100,000 people who sign onto their OneDrive accounts. The extra space comes on top of the customer?s existing OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) storage, but is good just for one year. Angus Logan, the group product marketing manager for
ANN ARBOR ? Three University of Michigan pathologists who developed software that could improve cancer diagnosis and treatment won a statewide entrepreneurship competition organized last week by the Center for Entrepreneurship at the UM College of Engineering. The team received $40,000. Team Genomenon took first overall, as well as in the health category of the