NOVI - Marvel Technologies has appointed Chakravarti Desikan (Desi) as its managing partner. He will be responsible for leading Marvel?s Consulting Services division. Under his leadership, the newly formed division will focus on consulting, implementation and managed services for SAP initiatives. MCS will focus on providing metrics based continuous improvement services primarily in energy and
TROY - Altair Wednesday announced 11 nominations for the 2nd Altair Enlighten Award, presented in collaboration with the Center for Automotive Research, is the automotive industry?s only award program created specifically to acknowledge innovations in vehicle lightweighting. The winner will be announced during the ?Featherweight Competition: Agile, Light, and Strong? session of the 2014 CAR
LANSING ? The people have spoken, and the winner of the Hudsonville Ice Cream Pure Michigan Limited Edition Flavor Contest is Winter Campfire. More than 7,400 people cast their votes, with Winter Campfire taking the top prize by nearly 200 votes. The flavor features Hudsonville Original Vanilla ice cream with a marshmallow swirl, graham cracker
SAGINAW TOWNSHIP - Suniva, Inc., a metro-Atlanta based manufacturer of high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells and modules, announced it is opening a second U.S. manufacturing facility in Saginaw Township. Construction will begin in August, with production in the last three months of 2014. Some 350 jobs will be created. The new facility will provide up
BEIJING ? Hackers have succeeded in attacking a car, the Tesla Model S, Chinese security giant Qihoo 360 Security Technology announced last week. Can highly wired vehicles made by Detroit automakers be far behind? The hackers were attempting to win $10,000 in prize money at a kick-off event during the SyScan +360 security conference, which
TROY - Altair plans to acquire Visual Solutions, makers of VisSim, an innovative visual language for mathematical modeling, simulation, and model-based embedded system development used by scientists and engineers around the world. The transaction is expected to close by the end of July. Terms were not announced. "Product innovation is increasingly driven by embedded systems,
JACKSON - An independent national survey has ranked Consumers Energy as the top "environmental champion" among providers of electricity and natural gas in the Midwest. The new survey results, released by Cogent Reports, a division of Market Strategies International, also rank Consumers Energy as the second-most trusted electric and natural gas provider in the Midwest,
DETROIT - Almost everybody thinks that the systems that power our society are secure. Nonetheless, computer crime has officially surpassed the drug trade for profitability and God only knows what the world?s various nation states are up to when it comes to stealing each other?s secrets. So, ?What?s the problem?? The problem stems from the
ZEELAND - Herman Miller announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Design Within Reach, a Stamford, Connecticut-based marketer and seller of modern furniture, lighting and accessories, for $154 million in cash. The Company will acquire an ownership interest in DWR equal to approximately 84 percent, subject to adjustment for net debt, changes
ANN ARBOR - Arbor Networks reported that the number of distributed denial-of-service events topping 20Gbps in the first half of the year doubled in comparison to all of 2013, making the first half of 2014 the highest number and most intense DDoS attacks on record. Arbor also reported more than 100 events at 100Gbps or