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Michigan Pure Med Calls For Stronger Safety Standards Following MRA’s Largest Recall To Date

 MARSHALL –  Michigan Pure Med, a vertically-integrated pharmaceutical medical cannabis company, called for stronger marijuana manufacturing safety standards following the Marijuana Regulatory Agency’s (MRA)’s recall of four products on Aug. 30. “Marijuana offers enormous potential to improve lives, however, there have been too many headlines and recalls of marijuana products tainted with mold, pesticides and

By |2019-09-06T17:24:27-04:00September 6th, 2019|Marijuana Business, News|
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Poll: Job Satisfaction Climbs to Highest Level in Over Two Decades

NEW YORK -A nationwide survey conducted by The Conference Board shows that about 54 percent of U.S. workers are satisfied with their employment, up 3 percent from the prior year, as workers also report being much more at ease about their job security. And Millennials have experienced a surge in confidence regarding their wages. The

By |2019-09-06T17:06:57-04:00September 6th, 2019|News|
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Allied Universal Acquires Midstate Security

WYOMING - Allied Universal, a security and facility services company, has acquired Midstate Security – a fully integrated electronic security and monitoring systems company based in Wyoming, Michigan, a suburb of Grand Rapids. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “The addition of Midstate is the first of many steps we are taking to build-out our technology

By |2019-09-05T20:50:29-04:00September 5th, 2019|Cyber Defense, News|
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Esperion To Grant 75,000 Shares To 18 New Employees

ANN ARBOR—Esperion Therapeutics Inc., a developer of a new class of cholesterol-reducing drugs, announced that the compensation committee of its board of directors granted non-qualified stock options to purchase an aggregate of 39,500 shares of its common stock and 35,388 restricted stock units (RSUs) to 18 new employees under Esperion’s 2017 Inducement Equity Incentive Plan.

By |2019-09-05T20:37:09-04:00September 5th, 2019|Clean Update|
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Cybercrime Network Gets New Partner

ANN ARBOR—The Cybercrime Support Network, a nonprofit working for cybercrime victims, has a new partnership with My Computer Works Inc., a national computer support company based in Scottdale, Ariz. CSN officials say the partnership will expand their efforts to meet the cybercrime threats facing millions of individuals and businesses in the United States. Tech support fraud

By |2019-09-05T20:37:09-04:00September 5th, 2019|Cyber Defense|
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Manufacturers: Don’t Let Tech Projects Languish In Pilot Purgatory

TROY - With the exponential increase of new technologies and drive towards digital transformation of manufacturing facilities, the manufacturing industry is more exciting today than it has been in the last several decades. As Internet-of-Things (IoT) has transformed the consumer world, the technology has yet to be fully realized in the industry that stands to

By |2019-09-05T20:22:22-04:00September 5th, 2019|Guest Columns|
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gBETA Musictech Accelerator’s Detroit Applications Due September 8

DETROIT – gBETA, a free pre-accelerator program offered in Detroit since 2017, will operate a cohort this fall focused on musictech and entertainment startups. Applications are currently being accepted from any startup building music- or entertainment-related products, services or content. But the deadline to apply is Sept. 8.  Unlike the industry-agnostic program gBETA has previously

By |2019-09-05T20:15:58-04:00September 5th, 2019|Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Featured|
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LIFT Gets $200,000 From Skillman For STEM education

DETROIT—Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow, a national manufacturing innovation center operated by the American Lightweight Materials Innovation Institute, announced that it has received a $200,000 grant from The Skillman Foundation. The grant will help Detroit-area youth strengthen their academic and employability skills and increase their STEM foundational knowledge and technical skills in the Institute’s new Learning

By |2019-08-31T13:28:46-04:00August 31st, 2019|ESD, STEAM|
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Launch Michigan Outlines First Set Of Priorities

LANSING - A stakeholder group pushing for providing all Michigan students with the best education possible announced its first set of priorities Friday, with a funding formula weighted toward equity and various programs needing more funding as well as improving literacy rates being among the top targeted areas. Launch Michigan officials in a release said

By |2019-08-31T09:47:20-04:00August 31st, 2019|Featured, Politics, Politics/Government|
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Legislative Leaders Hand Whitmer ‘Menu’ Of Road Funding Options

LANSING - Republican legislative leaders submitted a menu of additional road-funding options to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, some she'd seen before like bonding against the teacher retirement system. Some she had not. However, the Governor took a public jab at a key tenant to the Republicans' plan, which is to replace the sales tax on gasoline

By |2019-08-28T10:57:09-04:00August 28th, 2019|Politics, Politics/Government|
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