LONDON - Michigan House Speaker Jase Bolger said last week repealing the prevailing wage is still seriously being discussed, and he hopes to have some solution to transportation funding approved by the Legislature before the end of the year. Bolger (R-Marshall) said in an interview with Gongwer News Service he currently is giving Senate Majority
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
DETROIT - Comerica Bank?s Michigan Economic Activity Index decreased in August, down 1.3 percentage points to a level of 125.4. But the good news is August?s reading is 53 points, or 74 percent, above the index cyclical low of 72.1. The index averaged 114 for all of 2012, 11 points above the index average for
LANSING ? The Small Business Association of Michigan has named Lori J. Birman as the organization?s Vice President of Membership & Development. Most recently, Birman was Director of Membership and Planned Gifts for the Engineering Society of Detroit. Birman will be responsible for planning and managing implementation of membership growth strategies, sponsorships, advertising and advocacy
DEARBORN - The SME Education Foundation announced the election of four new members to its Board of Directors. Joining the Board are Gwen Malone, Jennifer McNelly, Karla Middlebrooks and Roy Sweatman. ?I am excited to welcome our new Board members to the SME Education Foundation,? said Chief Executive Officer Bart A. Aslin. ?They bring us
SOUTHFIELD - Have you used Dropbox, the cloud-based file sharing and backup service? On Nov. 7, the Michigan Council of Women in Technology will provide a description of Dropbox functionality and how to set it up, sync files and share folders and files. Participants will learn what's included in the free service and which additional
SAN FRANCISCO - Mac users can have Apple's latest Mac operating system, OS X Mavericks, for free, the company announced Tuesday at an event in San Francisco. "Today we're going to revolutionize pricing," Craig Federighi, Apple's chief of iOS and OS X, told CNET News.Com. The software is available now. Apple introduced the system in
STAMFORD - Worldwide combined shipments of devices (PCs, tablets and mobile phones) are projected to reach 2.32 billion units in 2013, a 4.5 percent increase from 2012 ? meaning a third of the world?s population will buy one of these devices this year. The market is being driven by a shift to lower-priced devices in
ZURICH, Switzerland - Taking a page from the way banks and web sites use two-factor authentication to log-in, IBM announced NFC, or near-field communications, to make mobile eCommerce more secure. NFC wireless links can be used to let people exchange contact information by bumping phones together or to pay for products by waving a phone
GRAND RAPIDS ? On Nov. 13, Jay Hidalgo, creator of Demand Gen Coach, will discuss the pace of new technologies entering the market and how these new tools are affecting sales and marketing at the aimWest monthly meeting. Hidalgo is President of The Barzel Group. He will address this technological onslaught by providing an overview