SOUTHFIELD - The Salvation Army of Metro Detroit teamed up Nov. 1 with Southeast Michigan colleges and universities for its inaugural Online Red Kettle College Competition. Student-run organizations from each school have created their own Online Red Kettle and are encouraging students, staff, alumni and supporters to donate. Donors can view their school's fundraising goals
TROY - The planning committee for the second annual Great Lakes BI and Big Data Summit has issued a call for speakers to address the day-long conference March 13, 2014, at the Detroit Marriott Troy. In its inaugural year, the Summit was attended by nearly 200 of the area's top business and technology leaders from
WHITMORE LAKE ? Thermoplastics compounder has formed a strategic alliance with Eco Bio Plastics Midland to use EBPM's patent-protected technology that incorporates ground paper as a reinforcement in plastics. This results in an environmentally friendly bio-plastic that reduces the use of fossil-based materials and carbon dioxide emissions. It also helps reduce component part weight, while
TRAVERSE CITY - Thomas C. Kinnear, the founding Executive Director of the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan, has been added to the Tellurex Corp. Board of Directors. "We are excited to welcome Tom to our board" said Tellurex Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Clyde McKenzie. "He was an early
MILFORD - MIPRO Consulting has hired Roland Butvilofsky as PeopleSoft Practice Manager. With more than 20 years of enterprise resource planning experience, Butvilofsky will be responsible for all Supply Chain Management program activities, as well as day-to-day oversight and management of project consultants in SCM, Asset Lifecycle Management and Maintenance Management. Butvilofsky will also work
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network engineers have completed a 3,000 foot-long segment of fiber-optic network on the edge of Alpena and have lit a 10 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) network connection between Alpena and Powers. Lit by ADVA optical networking equipment, the dense wavelength division multiplexing fiber-optic connection goes from Alpena west to Gaylord, then north to
ANN ARBOR - Michigan, home to the greatest concentration of automotive production and innovation in North America, is also a national leader in agriculture, ranking second in bio-diversity of agricultural products. The Center for Automotive Research will be the lead in a recently funded project focused on the intersection of these two sectors. CAR, along
TROY - Walsh College alumni continue to see Michigan?s longer-term economic prospects on an upward trend since 2011, yet express caution when compared to the country as a whole. National economic sentiment has been marked by volatility since 2011, but has improved nearly 50 percent over the last 12 months, according to preliminary findings of
TROY - Billhighway has donated $2,412 and can be attributed to the Make-A-Wish Southern Nevada to help Isaac, a 3 � year old boy who suffers from Langerhans cell histiocytosis, realize his dream of visiting Lightning McQueen at Disneyland. Make-A-Wish grants a wish, on average, every 38 minutes to a child with a life threatening
ANN ARBOR ? Llamasoft has released K2 Enterprise, a new technology platform, offered both on-premise or on-demand in the cloud, that elevates supply chain modeling and design from a personal workstation to an enterprise-wide collaborative design and knowledge management environment. Developed to support supply chain design centers of excellence and global design teams, K2 Enterprise