MENLO PARK, Calif. - With holiday deals starting earlier each year, the temptation to act on them – even while at the office – is great. And the ability to bag up bargains on company time is growing, a new Robert Half Technology survey shows: One-quarter of chief information officers (CIOs) said their firms allow unrestricted access
ROYAL OAK - Airfoil Public Relations, after a decade in the Southfield Town Center, will be moving to new custom-built offices in Royal Oak in January. The move is part cost-cutting, part culture-creating. The cost cutting part is Airfoil recovering from the loss of about 20 percent of its billables when long-time client Microsoft Enterprise
ANN ARBOR – Here’s some news that should give Retailers and eTailers a warm feeling this Holiday season. A University of Michigan report released Friday contends consumers will spend more in 2015 and 2016 than they have since 2016, before the long recession began. U-M economist Richard Curtin, director of the U-M Surveys of Consumers,
ANN ARBOR – During the first decade of this new century Michigan lost nearly a million jobs. In a new forecast by University of Michigan economists, the state will regain two-thirds of those jobs by the end of 2017, returning to employment levels not seen since spring 2003. In their annual November forecast of Michigan's
ANN ARBOR - The annual unemployment rate will likely fall below 5 percent next year - the first time since 2007 - as the U.S. economy grows at its highest rate in a decade, economists at the University of Michigan predicted Thursday. The national economy will add 4.7 million jobs over the next two years
GRAND RAPIDS - A Las Vegas company confirmed Monday that it could build a $5 billion data center in a Grand Rapids suburb - if state legislators approve hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks. Switch would create a new SUPERNAP data center campus in Caledonia, south of Grand Rapids, in and around a pyramid-shaped
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor SPARK presented its annual FastTrack awards to 14 Washtenaw County-based companies that have demonstrated fast growth, including Online Tech and LLamasoft, achieving 10 years of year over year growth. FastTrack awards are presented to companies with impressive records of growth. Recipients of 2015 FastTrack awards were required to have revenue
LANSING - Switch, a Nevada-based data storage center with international appeal, may be finding a place to locate at least a portion of its business on the west side of the state, and it may have help from the Michigan Legislature to do so. Six bills, three in the Michigan House and three in the
GALESBURG - Power management company Eaton announced that Staci Kroon has been named one of Automotive News magazine’s 100 Leading Women in the North American Auto Industry. The recognition identifies her as one of the leading female executives among automakers, suppliers and dealerships. “I am greatly honored to be included among this group of outstanding
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University has received an in-kind software grant from Siemens PLM Software with a commercial value of $210 million - software providing LTU students access to the same technology that companies around the world depend on every day to develop innovative products in a wide variety of industries including automotive, aerospace, machinery,
