ANN ARBOR – Supply chain Software developer LLamasoft announced it has been named a GM Supplier of the Year for 2017. The award was presented to LLamasoft by General Motors during its Supplier of the Year awards held earlier this month in Florida. Award winners represent companies who provide products and services to General Motors
PLYMOUTH- Comcast announced that its new 1 Gigabit-per-second internet service is now available to residential and business customers in Battle Creek, Jackson, Lansing and their surrounding areas. Comcast’s new 1 Gigabit Internet service uses DOCSIS 3.1 technology that makes it possible for Xfinity and Comcast Business internet customers to receive gigabit speeds over the communications
DETROIT - The Michigan Science Center and ITC Holdings Corp. will host a special Arbor Day program on Friday with schools throughout the state to highlight the museum’s new ECHO Distance Learning Program. ECHO, part of the Science Center's Traveling Science program, uses video conferencing to connect classrooms from any location with a museum educator
STAMFORD, Conn. - For the fourteenth consecutive quarter, worldwide personal computer shipments declined in the first three months of 2018 - a decline dating back to the second quarter of 2012. The Asia-Pacific region and the United States experienced declining shipments, while other regions saw some minimal growth, but it was not enough to drive
GRAND RAPIDS - OST has been named a 2018 Tech Elite 250 company by CRN for nine consecutive year. OST is one of 250 companies to be recognized nationally, and one of only six in Michigan. Tech Elite 250 companies are an exclusive group of North American IT solution providers that have the most customer-beneficial
SEATTLE, WA – Investment into venture-backed companies is already on pace to experience another record-breaking year in 2018. Investors deployed the highest amount of capital in 1Q 2018 than any single quarter since 2006 ($28.2 billion), with unicorns attracting over 18 percent of total VC capital. Coming off multiple years of record fundraising, more than
NEW YORK – While funding to Venture-Capital backed companies in the United States during the first quarter increased 4 percent from a year ago, deal activity declined 2 percent due to 30 rounds of $100 million or more. US-based Artificial Intelligence companies had a record quarter as funding leapt 29 percent in Q1’18. Representing an
ALLENDALE - Web and software developer BizStream had hired six new team members to support projects and product growth. The new associates include: Jordan Whiteley, Web Developer Ben Buurstra, Web Developer Mike Webb, Web Developer Nathan Graham, Web Developer Caleb Compston, Project Manager Darian Bonnell, Solution Architect Whiteley, Buurstra, Webb, and Graham will join the
LANSING - Michigan ranks 12th among the states overall for its business tax climate, the Tax Foundation said in a report released Wednesday. The state ranked well for its business and individual income taxes, eighth and 14th respectively, but the group raised concerns about the unemployment insurance tax, putting Michigan 48th. Property tax was also a weakness
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow today applauded the inclusion of $100 million in the proposed Fiscal Year 2018 spending bill for the safe research, development and demonstration of self-driving vehicle technologies, including dedicated funding for the Department of Transportation’s federally designated Automated Vehicle Proving Grounds. “Self-driving vehicles have the potential to
