MACKINAC ISLAND - Nobody is quite ready to claim victory for a new international bridge in Detroit but supporters have expressed confidence that legislation authorizing the bridge will win passage, and legislators once solidly opposed to the project are taking a more open stance on the proposal. With getting a new bridge, called by Governor
TROY - Altair Engineering's staffing division, Altair ProductDesign, after doubling its onsite engineering specialists in the past 12 months, is looking to fill more than 1,000 open positions for skilled engineers and designers throughout the United States. Altair ProductDesign?s staffing business helps its customers to fulfil engineering and design resource requirements by accessing a qualified
MACKINAC ISLAND - Michigan will put special focus on talent development and needs, with it the focus of his November message, Governor Rick Snyder said at the opening of the 2011 Detroit Regional Chamber meeting. In his opening remarks to the conference, Snyder also urged attendees and the state as a whole to be positive
MACKINAC ISLAND - With legislation authorizing the process to build a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, submitted Wednesday for introduction, Governor Rick Snyder said he hoped the Legislature would finish work on the measure by July. And he also said the legislation, introduced by Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville (R-Monroe), was not in
MACKINAC ISLAND ? Michigan's businesses will have new ways to buy and sell, raise capital, and connect with each other through the $3 million Pure Michigan Business Connect initiative announced Thursday. Huntington National Bank's guarantee to loan $2 billion over four years for commercial and small Michigan-based companies, makes up the bulk of it. Governor
TROY ? A new report from Automation Alley contends Michigan is among the leaders in technology innovation in the nation with Metro Detroit and Grand Rapids ranking as two of the nation's top technology centers. Automation Alley?s 2011 Technology Industry Report was done by the Anderson Economic Group, a business consulting firm based in East
AUBURN HILLS - An initial public offering on Wall Street sometime next year could be in the cards for Plex Systems, which provides Plex Online, a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning software for manufacturers. Plex CEO Mark Symonds, during an interview earlier this month at PowerPlex 2011 Conference in Dearborn, said Plex is looking to ?go
GRANDVILLE ? Cloud computing solutions that allow access to data anytime, anywhere, from any device will be the focus of Trivalent Group's Seventh Annual Solutions Expo June 16 at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. Cloud computing is just the latest technology offered by the privately held IT services provider that has posted 72 consecutive
LANSING - Gov. Rick Snyder Thursday called the approval of Michigan's $46 billion budget in advance of his May 31 target date "an achievement that underscores the power of Michigan." Earlier in the day, the Michigan Senate passed the omnibus budget bills for the 2011-12 fiscal year, sending them to Governor Rick Snyder for his
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder will be able to promote development of a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, but he will not be able to use any state funds to build it under budget conference reports adopted Tuesday. The budgets for both the Department of Transportation (SB 185 ) and general government (SB