GRAND RAPIDS - The 5th Annual Go Green Golf Outing is Aug. 9 at the Quail Ridge Golf Course in Ada. It's sponsored by the West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum. A member of the Turf Grass Association, this course is environmentally friendly and will help stimulate some great green walking and talking as we look
GRAND RAPIDS - The West Michigan private equity finance group called Momentum, founded by Rick DeVos, showcased its latest batch of start-ups on July 26 at its 2nd annual Demo Day. Each company had participated in a 12-week bootcamp and received $20,000 in funding. The four companies include:>
WARREN - Six high-tech science and technology teams from four continents have been named finalists in the inaugural Multi Autonomous Ground-Robotic International Challenge (MAGIC 2010) hosted by the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center. Teams from the United States, Turkey, Japan and Australia have been selected by the U.S. and the Australian
LANSING - In a split decision, the Supreme Court overturned lower courts Friday by finding that copying pornographic images of children to a disc does not constitute manufacture. Brian Hill was convicted of making or producing child sexually abusive materials for copying images form the Internet and saving them to compact discs. Hill argued that
SOUTHFIELD ? Secure-24, a managed hosting, disaster recovery, and managed services for the mission-critical IT applications of industry and government, has 47 job openings. Secure-24 was named 2010 SAP Pinnacle Award Finalist for IT Outsourcing Partner of the Year, the only US based partner to receive the nomination. What's more, the company just hired Inga
ANN ARBOR - Cerenis Therapeutics SA, a biotech company with dual headquarters in Ann Arbor and France, has secured $51.7 million in venture capital to continue developing its cholesterol therapy technologies, executives said Sunday night, the biggest Michigan venture investment in nearly four years. The transaction is the biggest venture capital deal for a Michigan
SOUTHFIELD - Secure-24, certified SAP Hosting Partner and 2010 SAP Pinnacle Award Finalist for IT Outsourcing Partner of the Year, announced the addition of IT outsourcing veteran Inga Bredehoeft to its team focused on SAP Hosting and Enterprise Application Services in the Western Region. Bredehoeft joins Secure-24 as the SAP Sales Director based in Silicon
OXFORD - Relume Technologies, a leading manufacturer of light-emitting diode products and smart grid control systems for outdoor lighting applications, was chosen by the City of Canton, Ohio to supply LED light engines to upgrade hundreds of the community's decorative lighting fixtures. Relume?s retrofit fixtures fit most post top lights, allowing the City to upgrade
TROY - Behr America's newest technology for cooling engines and batteries is helping automakers develop new electric vehicles and more fuel-efficient gasoline engines. "Behr is now producing technologically-advanced products for all three Detroit-based manufacturers, overcoming the severe impacts of the global recession and optimizing its North American manufacturing structure," said Heinz-J. Otto, president and CEO
SAN FRANCISCO - The security world is aflutter over new malware that has been spreading via USB devices and is programmed to steal data from systems running specific software used in utilities and industrial manufacturing plants. There are a lot of moving parts to this story so CNET News.Com decided to break them down and