GRANDVILLE - Trivalent Group will host a no-cost workshop March 14 to help businesses learn how to move their desktops to the cloud. Move Your Desktop to the Cloud will be held from 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Trivalent?s Grandville headquarters, 3145 Prairie St. SW. Attendees have the option to join the workshop virtually
LANSING - After a positive January, 80 percent of Michigan retailers expect to increase sales this year, the most by mid-single digits, the Michigan Retail Index said on Wednesday. Thirty-eight percent of those polled said they expect to increase sales by more than 5 percent this year, 45 percent put sales growth at 5 percent
LANSING - The Michigan Strategic Fund on Wednesday approved $6 million for the Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization Program, as well as Michigan Business Development and Community Revitalization program incentives to eight companies expanding in the state. The expansions, funded by the 21st Century Jobs Fund to create high-tech jobs through commercialization of university research
LANSING- Governor Rick Snyder said if employers and workers are agreeing to contract extensions prior to the right-to-work law taking effect March 28 without "significant economic benefit," it would concern him. Speaking with reporters after an event Wednesday, Snyder was asked about Republican legislators threatening to punish school districts and public universities in the appropriations
LANSING - The Michigan House Appropriations Committee took the first step in setting up a federally mandated health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday when it approved appropriating federal funds for a federal-state partnership. The committee voted 24-3 to report HB 4111 , which would accept $30.67 million in federal grant money
LANSING - Macomb Chief Circuit Judge David Viviano will become Michigan's 108th Supreme Court Justice after he was named Wednesday by Governor Rick Snyder to succeed disgraced former Justice Diane Hathaway. Viviano, 41, was praised by Snyder for being a "rule of law" judge - "which is critically important" - and for playing a major
DETROIT - Comerica Bank's Michigan Economic Activity Index saw a bounce back in December, rising 1.7 points to a level of 102.7. The December index reading is 43 points, or 71 percent, above the index cyclical low of 59.9. The index averaged 103 for all of 2012, 12 points above the index average for full-year
DEXTER - VI-grade GmbH, which provides software products and services for advanced applications in the field of system level simulation, announced that fiat do Brasil, the Brazilian division of Fiat Group Automobiles, installed VI-DriveSim Static, its driving simulator technology, at their premises in Belo Horizonte, Brasil. The driving simulator will be used for vehicle set
DETROIT - Verizon Wireless has expanded its 4G LTE network to four new markets across the country Thursday, including Alpena, Michigan. Other markets also launched include Kirksville, Mo., Poplar Bluff, Mo. And Abilene, Texas. Verizon Wireless will be further expanding its footprint in the Northeast part of Michigan later this year. The Verizon Wireless 4G
LANSING - Michigan is one of just seven states are looking to create a joint federal, state exchange for health insurance. All states had to indicate to the federal government by this past Friday whether they would establish a health insurance exchange on their own, have one established by the federal government, or go into