WARREN - ITINTHED will host its annual charity fundraiser event, working with the folks behind Operation Kid Equip to ensure that the same kids who face challenges here in the area during the school year are able to have a good holiday season as well. It will take place December 8, starting at 5pm at
ANN ARBOR - Economists at the University of Michigan announced Friday that Michigan will add on average 45,800 jobs each of the next two years - good news indeed, but slightly more than half the average 70,000 jobs added from 2014 to 2016. In their annual November forecast of Michigan's economy, George Fulton and colleagues
DETROIT - The Workforce Intelligence Network has been awarded a $6 million, four-year grant to train 900 southeast Michigan workers in robotics and automation careers through the Advance Michigan Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Technology Education Collaborative. The funding aligns with southeast Michigan’s White House designation as an Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership area, which prioritizes
ANN ARBOR - Will consumer confidence plunge or will it improve in the wake of Donald Trump's election? An analysis of consumer sentiment data collected prior to the election provides mixed signals, according to economist Richard Curtin, director of the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. Curtin predicted a 2017 growth rate of about 2
SHENZHEN, China - University of Michigan leaders are entering into several agreements with Chinese institutions in hopes, as the world’s population grows, of solving pressing global issues such as clean and safe water and next-generation transportation. S. Jack Hu, U-M vice president for research, is in China in November along with Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder,
EAST LANSING - Anderson Economic Group has identified six tax policies that President-Elect Trump and a Republican-controlled House and Senate could pursue in the coming years. Several are important for the technology sector. “As surprising as the election results are, we have to recognize that there is a messy order in the peoples’ decisions,” said
DETROIT - The good news is the Southeast Michigan Purchasing Managers Index leaped seven points in October indicating a strong local economic outlook. The bad news is one third of these respondents said they aren’t confident the upward trend will hold in part because of the uncertainty of the presidential election on Nov. 8. Looking
PONTIAC - Individuals will be able to find data ranging from property information including addresses and boundaries to how to find parks and trails and locate floodplains in the new Access Oakland Open Data Portal that went live Nov. 1. “The county has hundreds of data sets which can become meaningful information in the hands
DETROIT - Online job postings for lightweighting-related advanced manufacturing occupations in Michigan increased by five percent between the second and third quarters, from 28,902 to 30,325, says a new report from LIFT – Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow. The quarterly reports, highlighting the employment trends, top jobs, and required skills in advanced manufacturing through Sept. 30
TROY - MITechNews.Com has partnered with Automation Alley to provide video news to its members. The new Automation Alley Video News Update will debut this month with interviews of Automation Alley’s 16th Annual Awards Gala winners. “We look forward to offering our membership this unique business growth opportunity through MITechNews.com. With video news updates, our
