HUNTSVILLE, ALA. - The two-time defending Future City national champions from St. John School in Rochester are having an out of this world time. The presentation team of Abby Dayton, Leah Schroeder, and Emily Abramczyk, along with engineer-mentor Linda Gerhardt and St. John teacher Jon Pfund, are at Space Camp, at the U.S. Space and
ANN ARBOR - MichBio U on July 28 will host a webinar to help its medical device makers enter key emerging markets quickly. China has most likely passed from "emerging" status into a "must enter" status as it rapidly becomes the second largest health care market in the world. However, due to familiarity with the
TROY - Billhighway on Thursday announced the promotion of two team members, Charlotte Muylaert and Sarah Garrity. Muylaert has been named Marketing Team Leader and Garrity takes on the role of Marketing Specialist. Muylaert joined Billhighway fresh out of Michigan State University in 2012. She hired in as a Marketing Lead, developing the Billhighway digital
DETROIT -The 12th annual Michigan Council for Women in Technology (MCWT) summer technology camps are in full swing. The Wayne County Community College in Harper Woods hosted dozens of 5th to 8th grade girls this week who designed apps, created video games and websites, and programmed robots. Harper Woods is just one of the locations
LANSING - Norm Saari has been appointed by Governor Rick Snyderto the Public Service Commission and will no longer serve as the House Speaker Kevin Cotter's chief of staff, with Brock Swartzle taking over that post. "Norm has had a distinguished career in the utility industry as well as in public service, and he brings
LANSING - In a case dealing with whether an electric utility is eligible for a use tax exemption for industrial processing, a divided Supreme Court held that a utility is entitled to only a partial exemption. The majority in the 4-3 decision returned the case to the Court of Claims to develop a "reasonable formula
DETROIT - A new study released Thursday says from 1995 to 2013, private capital-backed middle-market companies in Detroit outperformed other companies on sales, driving employment growth. The report came from the Detroit chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth. The source of the data, GrowthEconomy.org, details the results of private equity investment throughout the United
CHICAGO - With a passion for the water and fitness alike, Fares Ksebati and his team at MySwimPro have grown from this love aquatics and training. Through the determination and ambition that flourished in the pool, they provided a startup that helps others just like them achieve their goals. MySwimPro is a platform that professional swimmers
LANSING - Apps for the Enterprise: How is Business Maximizing the Benefits of Apps is the keynote at the upcoming re-launch of Lansing's Mobile Monday chapter. It will be presented by Jeff Imholz, WebSphere Technical Specialist for IBM. IBM has been in the news a lot lately for their collaboration with Apple on enterprise apps.
DETROIT - Afrank discussion with Sharma Krauskopf about the future of movie making and viewing. Streaming video on the Internet is taking a deep bite out of the already tottering movie theatre empire. Hollywood is being seriously threatened by companies like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Vimeo and YouTube. Where will we see the story of the