TRAVERSE CITY - Michigan-based Cherry Republic today received approval from the Michigan Economic Growth Authority for a multi-use brownfield redevelopment project that will support the construction of a retail outlet and food production facility and new residential spaces in Traverse City. ?This new Cherry Republic facility consolidates their production, retail and administrative operations and brings
SALINE - Pearl Crescent has built an app that challenges people to build winter-themed models using actual LEGO-compatible bricks. The app, called Brick Build Winter Edition, uses a digital device's camera to check that it was built correctly. The app is compatible with iPhone, iPad 2, and iPod touch devices equipped with a camera. It
WHITMORE LAKE ? RheTech has expanded its RheVision biocomposites product line to include agave fiber and coconut fiber. These new biofibers, including RheVision's existing offering of wood fiber, rice hull and flax fiber reinforced polyolefin, are helping RheTech meet the growing demand for environmentally friendly materials that meet the performance characteristics of its customers. ?We
BIRMINGHAM ? Henry Business Solutions has created a new division, Business Visibility Builder, aimed at helping companies increase sales through generating new leads and traffic across the Internet. The new service is designed to help businesses create an integrated presence across the web, social media, and mobile device platforms through a custom-tailored process of research
GRAND RAPIDS - The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center announced the schedule for financial tools workshops in metro Detroit in 2012 through June. ?5 Keys to Achieving Fiscal Fitness,? a workshop to help the non-financial manager business owner achieve Fiscal Fitness is a state-wide training program designed to strengthen financial literacy and improve
SAN FRANCISCO - McAfee is looking into a problem with a service in its SaaS Endpoint Protection software that appears to be allowing computers to serve as open proxies for sending spam, the company told CNET. A McAfee customer posted on a Microsoft Technet forum that "McAfee has developed a patch that will instruct rumor
LANSING ? The Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced Thursday that the City of Detroit has won a $400,000 Advanced Lighting Technology Demonstration grant to upgrade street lights in six areas of the city. ?The State of Michigan is pleased to partner with the City of Detroit and DTE Energy to replace aging and inefficient lighting
SAN FRANCISCO - Hackers in Israel and other Middle Eastern countries are in the middle of a cyberwar that has led to disruptions of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, several Israeli banks, and an airline. As a result, some Israeli banks have blocked or are threatening to block international access to their sites to avoid
LOUISVILLE, Ky. ? Crime fiction author John Locke was the first independently published author to sell more than one million Kindle eBooks using Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform. Now he's the first author to sign a book distribution deal with Simon & Schuster to get his next book into book stores nationwide. Locke, a commercial
ANN ARBOR - The umbrella trade association for the Robotic Industries Association, AIA, and the Motion Control Association has changed its name from the Automation Technologies Council to the Association for Advancing Automation. ?The new name more accurately reflects our mission, which is to be the global advocate for the benefits of automation,? said Jeff