ANN ARBOR ? Integrated digital marketing leader Pure Visibility has hired three new employees for key management jobs. Todd Hall is taking the helm as VP of Sales and Business Development. Hall joins the team from Cleveland, Ohio, and brings with him more than 15 years of digital marketing experience. Todd?s previous roles include Director
LA MIRADA, Calif. - The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California has established five new 100 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) links between the California Research and Education Network and Internet2. Two new 100G connections in Los Angeles will support a variety of research purposes, along with a third 100G connection at Sunnyvale that will
DEARBORN - Ford Motor Company reported second quarter 2013 pre-tax profits of $2.6 billion, reflecting improvement by all business units compared with a year ago. North America, the company's largest region, set records for second quarter and first half pre-tax profits. Asia Pacific Africa, the company's fastest-growing region, achieved its best-ever quarterly pre-tax profit. Ford
WASHINGTON ? U.S. House lawmakers on Wednesday defeated an attempt to drastically curb a national-security program that collects the phone records of millions of Americans, after a tense debate on the balance between privacy rights and government efforts to find terrorists. The measure was narrowly defeated, 205-217, after last-minute lobbying by the Obama administration and
ANN ARBOR - Six Michigan companies recently received investments from the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund totaling $1.5 million. So far, 89 Michigan companies have received more than $20 million in seed funding from a collaborative effort of Michigan?s SmartZones. What?s more, Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund companies have attracted more than $27 million in matching grant
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan's Ross School of Business announced Wednesday the appointment of Stewart Thornhill as the executive director of the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, pending approval of the University of Michigan Board of Regents. He is the successor to Tom Kinnear, who has been the
MUSKEGON ? The Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center is hosting a briefing on Aug. 15 to update the public on a wind turbine floating platform system, what has been described as the next generation of marine wind turbine design. Charles Nordstrom, naval architect and marine engineer with Glosten Associates, will discuss the Glosten Pelastar
MOSCOW -Security vendors are busy adding and upgrading defensive technologies into their products, but security experts say an end to the cat-and-mouse game with organized cybercriminals is nowhere in sight. Strong and often complex business networks that support the delivery of malware and other attacks designed to steal credit card data, passwords and personal information
DETROIT ? Angelique Johnson, interim CEO and CTO of MEMStim LLC, won first place and $15,000 plus in-kind support in the Entrepreneur-YOU business plan and pitch competition. Johnson?s company developed a fully automated manufacturing process for electrode lead production employing nanofabrication of thin films. MEMStim LLC intends to disrupt the neurostimulator market with a new
DETROIT - Strategic Staffing Solutions, a global IT and business services company, has opened an office in Riga, Latvia, to service its customers in the region and expand its growth in Europe. ?Our customers have asked us to expand our capabilities in Eastern Europe and Latvia is a perfect place for S3 to grow in