SEATTLE - Amazon.com is considering an advertising-supported streaming television and music-video service, a departure from its strategy of linking video to its $99-a-year Prime subscription service, according to people close to the company, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The proposed service, which could launch in the coming months, could feature original and may include
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook has agreed to acquire virtual reality trailblazer Oculus VR in a $2 billion deal announced Tuesday, and of all the acquisitions the social network has ever made, this will undoubtedly prove the most influential. Its effects will reverberate throughout the VR market and far beyond, to the edges of personal computing
TROY ? Gary Morton has been named Vice President of Sales at SunTel Services, a provider of unified communications networks to business. Morton comes to SunTel with an impressive background. He has more than 30 years of sales and major account management experience and spent the last nine years serving various roles at Spectralink /
SALINE ? eePulse CEO Theresa Welbourne chosen has been chosen a 2014 Top Technology Trendsetter in the Technology Leader category by Survey Magazine. Welbourne is the founder of eePulse, the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and the FirsTier Banks Professor of Business at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and an affiliated research scientist at
LANSING - Manufacturers across Michigan will gather in Lansing on May 13 to honor the recipients of the 2014 John G. Thodis Michigan Manufacturer of the Year Award. The Award, an annual honor since 1981, recognizes manufacturers for their dedication to community service and their role as a symbol of the positive work being done
TROY - Ken Rogers, executive director of Automation Alley, has been appointed to the Honorary Committee for the 2014 World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems, taking place this year in Detroit from Sept. 7-11. The ITS World Congress is the world?s largest transportation technology exhibition and brings 10,000 national, regional and local leaders together with
GRAND RAPIDS - The law firm of Warner Norcross & Judd LLP will offer its popular human resources and benefits seminar on April 22 in Grand Rapids. The daylong seminar will focus on Strategy, Risk Management and Best Practices for Benefits and HR Professionals. More than a dozen Warner Norcross attorneys focused on employee benefits,
ANN ARBOR ? RS Components has selected LLamasoft Supply Chain Guru as the standard application for supply chain design throughout the company?s global enterprise. RS Components and Allied Electronics are the trading brands of Electrocomponents plc, the world's leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products. The company operates in 32 countries and offers
ANN ARBOR - With support from Ann Arbor SPARK, XanEdu, Inc. is expanding its operations, investing more than $1 million in Ann Arbor and planning to hire more than 50 people. As part of the expansion, XanEdu is consolidating its Michigan and Kentucky operations into its current Ann Arbor headquarters. "Ann Arbor SPARK connected XanEdu
TROY ? The Center for Computer Resources has surfaced on Nine Lives Media?s seventh-annual MSPmentor 501 Global Edition, a distinguished list and report identifying the world?s top 501 managed service providers. ?It is a great honor for the Center for Computer Resources team to be recognized for their handwork and professionalism,? said Curtis Hicks, President