HOLLAND - Coastal Container and Coastal Automotive Corporation Tuesday announced that Paul Doyle has joined the company as chief executive officer. Doyle brings more than 20 years of manufacturing leadership experience to the company. ?We are very pleased to welcome Paul to our team,? said Brent Patterson, who is stepping down as Coastal CEO and
DETROIT - Compuware Corp. may split the company into two units: one that would support its mainframe business and the other to focus on applications performance management. The news came Thursday night during the computer-services company?s quarterly teleconference call after the markets had closed, the typical way Compuware reports its financials. CEO Bob Paul did
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Google is developing a new, cutting-edge tablet as it continues to experiment with advanced vision capabilities for mobile devices, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The company plans to produce about 4,000 of the prototype tablets beginning next month, according to people briefed on the company's plans. The device would come with
LANSING - The Cyber Civilian Corps, a group aimed at helping both the state and businesses prevent computer-aided attacks, officially launched Wednesday. The program, announced by Governor Rick Snyder in October, will begin as a rapid response team for data breaches. "We are on our way to realizing the vision of the Cyber Civilian Corps
DETROIT - Comerica Bank?s Michigan Economic Activity Index declined in March, falling 2.5 percentage points to 120.9, the fifth straight consecutive decline. ?Payroll employment in Michigan was little changed over the 12 months ending in March,? said Robert Dye, Comerica Bank Chief Economist. ?This is worrisome because stalled payroll employment levels in Michigan are most
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND ? The United States, reflecting the resilience of its economy, better employment numbers, and its dominance in technology and infrastructure, retains the top spot in 2014 in a survey by the IMD World Competitiveness Center. The survey ranks 60 economies and also looks at perceptions of each country as a place to do
LANSING - An overwhelming majority of Michigan voters believe our roads are in horrible condition and are willing to invest more money to build and maintain them, according to a Michigan Chamber of Commerce poll released Monday. "Increased funding to fix the roads and improve public transit is necessary to keep Michigan moving forward and
LANSING - Michigan teens may have a fractionally easier time of searching for a job in the summer of 2014 than they did a year ago, but it will still be a tough market for those looking for work, says a forecast on the job market by the state. The forecast, released Monday by the
LANSING - Michigan's economy is growing for the fifth consecutive year and will grow for at least two more years, economists told the Revenue Estimating Conference, as current economic factors remain stable and growing stronger. The pace of some of the growth will slow somewhat, for example job growth, as long pent-up consumer demand for
LANSING - The loss of one-time revenue from the previous fiscal year, changes in tax policy, increases in business tax credits and declines in individual income tax annual payments are among the reasons the Senate Fiscal Agency on Wednesday downgraded its revenue estimates for the current fiscal year by nearly $288 million below the January