BIRMINGHAM - Gas Station TV Wednesday announced a business deal with Austin, Texas-based Wayne to triple the audience for its TV programming broadcast atop gas pumps. This investment will nearly triple GSTV's viewership from 27 million people monthly to more than 70 million people monthly, significantly surpassing cinema advertising viewership. Wayne is making an investment
LANSING - The State of Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget has awarded a $47 million contract to Unisys to build and maintain a new child welfare services system to serve the needs of thousands of children and social workers in Michigan. Designed to meet new state and federal data quality and information-sharing requirements,
ANN ARBOR - Customer satisfaction across three durable goods industries stalled in 2011, with the majority of companies staying almost exactly where they were in 2010, according to a report released Tuesday by the American Customer Satisfaction Index. The report covers customer satisfaction with personal computers, major appliances, and electronics (televisions and BD-DVD players). One
FERNDALE - Livio Radio, a manufacturer and developer of car Internet radio products and services, Tuesday announced the roll out of its Bluetooth Internet Radio Car Kit. ?The Kit,? previewed at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is a plug-and-play gadget that brings Internet radio and music from your iPod or iPhone
ALPENA - Verizon Wireless has completed its $850,000 upgrade of 450 antennas on all of its cell sites between the Saginaw Bay north to the Mackinaw Bridge and east of Interstate 75 to Lake Huron, producing gains of up to one mile. The last tower to receive new equipment is in Roscommon, where a nest
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems announced it raised enough money to provide 11,282 days of food for the Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan's 2011 Food Fight to Tackle Childhood Hunger. The amount was the highest among participating companies with 100-250 employees, as well as the largest amount of all 30 participating companies. These
NOVI - Red Level Networks announced Wednesday that it has been selected for inclusion on the CRN Next-Gen 250 list. This annual listing of innovative businesses and technology integrators, solution providers, and resellers in North America features businesses that offer solutions and services in cloud computing, mobility, unified communications, virtualization and other budding technologies. Businesses
KALAMAZOO - Vestaron Corporation, a venture-backed agricultural biotechnology company, has hired Steven Hartmeier as its new President and CEO. Hartmeier brings 30 years of agricultural experience to Vestaron with large and small companies. ?Steve?s experience with taking start-up companies through the product commercialization process is just what Vestaron needs at this stage of its development?
ANN ARBOR - Online Tech disclosed Tuesday that it has invested over $1 million upgrading and expanding its Mid-Michigan data center over the last 9 months. The data center was built in 1986 by EDS as a disaster recovery data center for General Motors. Online Tech took over the data center in 2005 with its
AUBURN HILLS ? Cloud ERP developer Plex Systems announced that Plex Online offers automated shipping functionality through integration with the Pacejet Cloud Shipping solution. Manufacturers in a range of industries can now access complete multi-carrier shipping for parcel, less-than-load, truck, and third party logistics as a complete, cloud-based solution. Manufacturers can deploy efficient, online shipment