GRAND RAPIDS ? Hundreds of developers, software engineers and programmers will gather on March 21 at Calvin College for GRDevDay, a day-long conference put together by West Michigan developers to highlight the latest technologies. Only a few tickets remain. The keynote will be given by Rachel Appel, formerly of Microsoft, and now working as a
DETROIT - Leaders of the state's largest companies see both the state and national economies improving over the next year-and-a-half, Business Leaders for Michigan said in releasing its latest forecast. The survey showed 60 percent of business leaders expect both economies to improve in the next six months. That was up from 48 percent for
DETROIT ? The Detroit Chinese Business Association will ring in the year of the Sheep at the Motor City Casino Soundboard Room where a government delegation from China will join the celebrations. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who has been working to improve business relations between the two countries, will deliver the keynote address. In the
KALAMAZOO ? Mobile-phone external battery maker, mophie, which began life in a pole barn near Kalamazoo a decade ago, had an international coming out party of sorts when it aired its first TV commercials during the Super Bowl, one of the most watched television events each year. Spending millions of dollars on advertising had not
LIVONIA ? The cars cranked out by Detroit automakers these days are loaded with computers all connected to mobile services that lets drivers plug-in a myriad of apps. But the downside of this digitization driving experience is today?s cars also have become a target of opportunity for hackers seeking to harvest a cornucopia of highly
PLYMOUTH - Comcast Business announced that for the second consecutive year the company will seek out the nation?s most innovative startup companies and entrepreneurs to compete in the Innovations 4 Entrepreneurs competition that provides $450,000 in technology investment nationwide. Two winners will be selected from the Comcast Business Heartland Region - Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky
GRAND RAPIDS ? A $10,000 crowdfunding campaign has been launched to support The Urban Institute For Contemporary Arts campaign to support a series of two to three public murals in downtown Grand Rapids. If UICA reaches its goal by March 18, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. will provide a $10,000 matching grant. The crowdfunding platform
DETROIT - The New International Trade Crossing between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, is now all but a done deal after an agreement Wednesday that would have Canada financing most of the customs plaza in exchange for toll revenue. The $2.1 billion new bridge would be built by an international public-private partnership with most of the
NEW YORK ? The University of Michigan was ranked in a new survey as the No. 1 Public Ivy college ? a term coined by Richard Moll, an admission officer for Yale University, who believed that several public institutions were delivering an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public school price. Moll wrote a book
WASHINGTON DC - The US National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives. That long-sought and closely