BATTLE CREEK - corePHP, a website development, graphic design and printing services company in downtown Battle Creek, said on Thursday that it has doubled its growth since opening its doors in 2007. The web-based company, focused on high-end programming and web design, has gone from two to more than twelve employees over the past 24
GRAND RAPIDS - Technology consulting firm C/D/H has been selected for membership in Microsoft's Worldwide Security Partner Advisory Council, the company announced Tuesday. The Security PAC focuses on a range of security issues facing Microsoft customers and partners around the world. Microsoft?s PAC program is an invitation-only membership organization that covers computing issues such as
DETROIT - The journalism program at Wayne State has named former Detroit Free Press reporter Bill McGraw the 2009 Journalist of the Year. McGraw recently joined Compuware Corp. as director of media relations. Canadian reporter Laura Lowe, a videographer at CTV in Ottawa, Ontario, was named the program's Alumna of the Year. She began her
GRAND RAPIDS - Lawrence Productions, an electronic media company, has won six national advertising awards for recent commercial work. The 2009 Communicator Awards honored them with three awards. "Best Jingle" and "Best Travel/Tourism TV" for their "Come Fly with Us" TV commercial for The Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport. Another Communicator Award was given to "The
DETROIT ARSENAL, WARREN - A U.S. Army project to develop lightweight, mine-resistant fuel carriers was recognized Oct. 4 by military leaders as an unparalleled example of the technology development and collaboration needed to protect and promote warfighters. The U.S. Army Tank Automotive, Research, Development and Engineering Center's and Army Research Laboratory's Lightweight Vehicle Underbody Protection
ANN ARBOR - eePulse has introduced its real-time employee engagement benchmarking survey that uses the Valour Pulse and Energy Pulse metrics to provide research on what drives company and individual performance. "Using only 20 online questions, participants receive a unique report classifying the percentage of their population that is engaged, disengaged, entitled or resisting change,
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - Butzel Long attorney and shareholder D. Stewart Green has been elected President of the Board of Directors of Lighthouse Community Development, a non-profit low income housing organization. It is a subsidiary of Lighthouse of Oakland County. Other subsidiaries include Lighthouse PATH and Lighthouse Emergency Services. Green has been a member of the
ANN ARBOR - uRefer, a referral marketing Software-as-a-Service platform, has signed a hosting agreement with Online Tech, which maintains SAS-70 certified data centers. Since the uRefer service went live in late 2007, the company has signed dozens of brand name customers, including Fifth Third Bank, Sierra Club, DirectBuy, and Scotts Lawn Service. Underlying uRefer is
ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan researchers disclosed a record 350 new inventions in fiscal year 2009, pumping up royalties for university-developed technologies by 20 percent, the U-M President said Monday in her State of the University address. Despite the state's economic woes, the university licensed eight new startups in the fiscal year that ended
GRAND RAPIDS - Autostrata.com on Monday announced that GuidePoint Systems has selected it as online distribution partner for Guidepoint Connect, the industry?s first integration of Bluetooth and GPS Technologies with emergency dispatch and location-based driver convenience services. Autostrata.com, an online portal providing car owners with aftermarket telematics applications, enables in-vehicle connectivity for people with a