AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems Inc., provider of Plex Online, Cloud ERP for manufacturers, announced the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan as its charity partner for 2012. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. Every year, Plex Systems? employees select one or two nonprofits to support and contribute funds to.
PLEASANT RIDGE - ePrize has announced its second acquisition in six months, buying Cellit, a Chicago-based mobile marketing agency. The deal adds 16 employees to ePrize, which will top 400 employees in 2012 forcing the digital marketing company to look for new headquarters. Cellit?s expertise in mobile marketing and customer relationship management products and services
LANSING - Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been linked to a variety of environmental problems around the country, but industry officials said a combination of the state's geography and its regulations would prevent those incidents in Michigan. Though the issue has become a hot button for environmentalists in recent months, Michigan has had wells that
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday its co-founder Jerry Yang has resigned from its board of directors, severing all ties with the Internet company he started nearly two decades ago. In a statement, Yang said: "the time has come for me to pursue other interests outside Yahoo." He added that he was also was
LANSING - Economists testifying at Friday's Revenue Estimating Conference saw good signs of economic growth in Michigan going forward, but concerns about the national economy and the debt crisis in Europe, which affects the state, are ever present. George Fulton of the University of Michigan's Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics said the state is more
LANSING ? The state of Michigan's official travel and tourism web site attracted more visits than any state tourism web site in the country for the fifth consecutive year, according to the independent online measurement company Experian Hitwise. Michigan.Org received 7.69 percent of the overall market share of visits to state tourism sites, and had
LANSING ? The state of Michigan's official travel and tourism web site attracted more visits than any state tourism web site in the country for the fifth consecutive year, according to the independent online measurement company Experian Hitwise. Michigan.Org received 7.69 percent of the overall market share of visits to state tourism sites, and had
SAN FRANCISCO - The Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against proposed legislation in the United States ? the Stop Online Piracy Act in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP in the U.S. Senate. If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open
SOUTHFIELD - The average age of cars and light trucks on the road today is a record 10.8 years, offering a sales opportunity for both the automotive aftermarket and for automakers who hope the public will buy new, rather than fix up. The annual survey from R.L. Polk shows the average age of cars and
LIVONIA ? If you're a business, academic institution, non-profit or any other group looking to unload old technology ? PC's, Laptops, Servers, Cell phones, Toner Cartridges, Networking Equipment, phone systems ? then Valaset wants to talk to you. CEO Tom Stroup says he?ll work with any size business ?with old technology they want to sell.?