WALKER - Meijer Inc. will hire 4,800 new part-time seasonal employees in Michigan for the Holiday rush, and another 5,500 in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. The retailer has opened nine new stories this year and also expects a huge surge in shopping related to the upcoming Holidays. This year marks a 10 percent hike
FOLSOM, Ca. ? Michigan was one of three states to earn a grade of A in the 2014 Digital States Survey, released this week, which evaluates state government?s ability to improve internal processes and better serve citizens. Other states earning an A are Utah and Missouri. Two years ago in the last survey, Michigan also
LANSING - As the Coalition Protecting Auto No-Fault and the Brain Injury Association of Michigan filed an appeal with the Supreme Court on Wednesday asking that the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association be found subject to the Freedom of Information Act, the groups also released a report, based on currently public information, showing the MCCA is
DETROIT- The Southeast Michigan Purchasing Managers Index for August hovered just above the three-month average and well above the value that suggests economic growth. In a show of confidence, more than 93 percent of the respondents believe the Southeast Michigan economy will remain stable or become more stable over the next six months. The tale
DETROIT - Compuware Corporation has agreed to be purchased by Thoma Bravo, a California-based private equity investment firm, for $2.5 billion. The joint press release did not say whether Compuware would remain in Detroit or what would become of its employees. But in an interview CEO Bob Paul said no layoffs were planned. ?Organizations are
ANN ARBOR - The American Institute for Economic Research released their findings on the top 75 college towns in the nation. Ann Arbor made quite the showing at number two in the small metro category. The ?college experience? is about more than simply attending a top-notch university. The city or town where the school is
SOUTHFIELD - Cranbrook Kingswood Girl?s Middle School will host the World Robot Olympiad Michigan Tournament on September 6 to select regular and open category student teams in Michigan. Opening ceremonies begin at 8:30 a.m. and the event is expected to end at 3 p.m. The public is welcome and admission is free. WRO is a
NEW YORK - The scope of last week?s computer attack against JPMorgan Chase and at least one other bank appears to be much larger than initially reported. In addition to possibly affecting seven financial organizations, instead of two as originally reported, some bank records at JPMorgan were altered and possibly deleted, reported CNN, citing unnamed
SAN MATEO, Calif. - Following a second consecutive quarter of softer than expected demand, International Data Corporation has lowered its worldwide tablet plus 2-in-1 forecast for 2014 to 233.1 million units. The new Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker forecast represents a 6.5 percent year-over-year growth rate, which is well below the 12.1 percent growth rate previously
SAN FRANCISCO - Not only is the National Security Agency scooping up vast troves of data on the American public, it's also sharing that data with other US government agencies. The NSA has granted access across "nearly two dozen" agencies to data on "more than 850 billion records" that covers more than 30 different kinds