DETROIT ? Solar energy technology company, GreenLancer.com, has unveiled its Assembly Line for quicker, more accurate solar engineering project documents. What this means is contractors can now order the entire spectrum of documents needed to take a project from feasibility through construction through GreenLancer?s e-commerce platform. "We've hit perhaps our most crucial milestone yet ?
GRAND RAPIDS ? A veteran journalist has teamed with a social media whiz to create F7Studios, an audio and video podcasting production company that is working with established content providers to create channels to offer unique news, information and educational programming on the Internet. Mike Brennan, Editor & Publisher of MITechNews.Com, a veteran business technology
LANSING - Michigan already has strong relationships with a number of Japanese companies and is ready to expand on those, as well as build new ones, Governor Rick Snyder said Monday at the 2013 Midwest U.S.-Japan Association Conference in Tokyo. In addition to Michigan's strong presence of foreign companies, recent tax changes and other reforms
DEARBORN ? ISACA Detroit's Sept. 18 Chapter Meeting features a talk called Dark Cloud Rising during dinner and another called Data Masking Case Study after. The dinner speaker is Melissa Markey, while the post dinner discussion will be offered by Keith Fournier, MA, MBA, PMP, APMC, CMS, GISP, CDIA. The meeting will be held at
TROY ? Susan Anthony, an attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, will keynote a day-long event Sept. 20 that will tell you how to protect your intellectual property in the global marketplace. The registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon breaks as well as a copy of the Basic Guide to
DETROIT - The Southeast Michigan Purchasing Managers Index for August hit 60.2, a 13 percent increase over July's PMI of 53.1, reflecting continued strengthening of the local economy. The three-month average, however, was relatively unchanged at 54.2. Among components of the index, the Commodity Prices Index rose in August to 55.6 from 54.8 in July
DEARBORN - The Ford Motor Co. Fund has awarded $225,000 in grants to nine colleges, including four from Michigan, to support building sustainable communities. The Ford College Community Challenge is a national challenge grant competition that recognizes colleges and universities that utilize a school?s resources to address an urgent community need related to the grant?s
ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan researchers Thursday released a series of reports that content while considerable natural gas reserves are believed to exist in the state and high-volume hydraulic fracturing has the potential to help access them, possible impacts to the environment and to public health must be addressed. Though modern high-volume hydraulic fracturing
WASHINGTON DC - The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Rifle Association have bonded in their fight against the National Security Agency's mass spying program that came to light in June. The NRA joined the ACLU's lawsuit against the government agency on Wednesday by filing a "friend of the court" legal brief. "The mass
WASHINGTON DC - A full 50 percent of Internet users surveyed say they're concerned about the growing amount of personal information revealed about them online. A study released Thursday by Pew Internet found that more people are worried about certain information now available online, including photos, videos, e-mail addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, home addresses,