DETROIT - As the use of smartphones and tablets has continued to boom, web design trends for 2014 center around functional, clean design that enhance the user experience and facilitate seamless e-commerce transactions. Below are five trends I am noticing in front-end web development: 1. Responsive Design Using a combination of HTML5, CSS3 and media
TROY - Watch up-and-coming entrepreneurs present their business plans, and then join in the discussion at the Entrepreneurial Initiative of Southeast Michigan Entrepreneurs Forum at Automation Alley May 20. This event will feature companies from Bizdom Detroit. The short presentations are critiqued by attendees, including venture capitalists, angel investors and business professionals, who provide constructive
LANSING - The loss of one-time revenue from the previous fiscal year, changes in tax policy, increases in business tax credits and declines in individual income tax annual payments are among the reasons the Senate Fiscal Agency on Wednesday downgraded its revenue estimates for the current fiscal year by nearly $288 million below the January
ANN ARBOR - Online Tech has acquired a data center in Indianapolis which will represent an investment of more than $10 million in property, planned upgrades and servers. ?Indianapolis is the thirteenth largest city in the United States?even larger than San Francisco?and we believe its businesses are underserved by secure cloud computing providers,? said Mike
GRAND RAPIDS - May 15th is Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Awareness Day, and in 2013 Van Andel Research Institute launched the Pathway of Hope research initiative under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey MacKeigan, Associate Professor and Head of the Institute?s Laboratory of Systems Biology. The initiative involves a combination of basic biology, translational and clinical approaches,
LANSING - Job seekers and Michigan employers can connect with each other through a State-sponsored virtual career fair on May 21 at the MiVirtualCareerFairs. More than 4,250 job seekers participated in the February 2014 MiVirtualCareerFair. Two additional virtual event opportunities are scheduled in 2014: August 27 and November 12. ?With more than 70,000 jobs currently
DETROIT - The Power Electronics Industry Collaborative has been awarded a $500,000, two-year grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia Program to fund a proposal to strengthen the domestic power electronics ecosystem. NextEnergy will receive more than $300,000 as a sub award to support grant activities. The
DETROIT - The Michigan Cyber Awareness Luncheon Series 2014 will serve as a follow up to the Michigan Cyber Summit 2013 hosted last fall by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder. The next one is scheduled for June 25 at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center. This series will provide updates to the Michigan Cyber Initiative designed for
LANSING - Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville on Monday stood by his decision to be the lead sponsor on a bill that would render moot a ballot proposal raising the minimum wage, saying doing so was within the realm of responsibility for legislators. "My concern was that you had a lot of out-of-state money backing
LANSING - The Michigan Senate is likely to refer a package of House bills on road funding to the Senate Infrastructure Modernization Committee that Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville created more than a year ago, he told Gongwer News Service on Monday. "They'll take it up and have hearings about (the package)," Richardville (R-Monroe) said.