ANN ARBOR - TechStreet, which was sold to Thomas Reuters a few years ago, has received the 2008 Information Services Standard of Excellence WebAward from the Web Marketing Association for excellence in web site development. The WebAward names the best Web sites in 96 industries while setting the standard of excellence for all website development.
FERNDALE - The Social Connection, a metro-Detroit-based lifestyle and event company, has launched a one-stop website for all-things New Year's Eve 2009. NYEDetroit.Com features all of Detroit�??s major parties is designed to meet the needs of party-seekers of all types �?? from hipsters, club-hoppers, hole-in-the-wall bar seekers and those looking for a more sophisticated and
REDMOND, Wa. - On Monday, Microsoft launched Oxite, an open-source blogging platform. However, the software maker was quick to underline that the product is aimed at developers and not intended to directly compete with popular blogging software such as WordPress or Movable Type. Microsoft posted the Oxite code on its CodePlex Web site on Friday
PARIS - As part of the Le Web conference in Paris, News Corp.'s MySpace announced that it has taken a deeper plunge into the data portability pool. The social network has announced its support for Google Friend Connect, which launched in full last week, and is using the standard to help power a new set
SALINE - DesignHub, a creative services and marketing firm, has created a brochure and an accompanying countertop display to help Evangelical Homes of Michigan raise funds for the Memory Support Center now under construction at the Brecon Village Retirement Community in Saline. The brochure and display describe EHM?s Sponsor a Brick program, in which contributors
ANN ARBOR - Zachary Moen has joined Butzel Long as an associate attorney practicing in the firm's Ann Arbor office. Moen represents corporate and individual clients in intellectual property and commercial litigation. He also has defended individuals and companies at various stages of federal criminal investigations, conducted internal investigations on behalf of corporations, and counseled
GRAND RAPIDS - Gill Industries is ramping up an automated production line at its Trenton, Ga., factory to supply steel chassis for a new series of utility vehicles by Club Car that targets the agricultural and outdoor recreation markets. The Trenton facility will have the capacity to fabricate up to 30 frames a day for
WARREN - Survivability Team Leader Heather Molitoris of the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, has received the prestigious Louis Dellamonica Award for Outstanding U.S. Army Materiel Command Personnel of the Year Award for 2007. ?Heather was selected for her outstanding work using many different modeling and simulation [M&S] tools for developing
ROYAL OAK - Software development company iwerk has recently completed an eCommerce project on the Ford Accessories website to handle online payment and shipping. The work was done by iwerk's Royal Oak office, and involved integrating several web services such as Paypal, Fedex and Avalara, to provide payment, shipping options, labels, and tax calculations. In
BRIGHTON - Pillar Technology haS released Verde, a tool that automates the characterization testing of all Java J2EE applications, recording JUnit tests dynamically at run time. The velocity of development teams using test-driven software development techniques improve by a significant margin when leveraging the automated capability of Verde, the company said in a press release.