DETROIT - Vaco, an executive level consulting, recruiting and placement firm, has named two new Partners in its Detroit area office, Paul Bishop and Jerrett Eiler, to support technology professionals seeking career opportunities in the Michigan region, as well as nationally. Vaco provides clients with elite professionals who have the deep industry and technical systems
CHICAGO - Internet2 announced at the US Ignite Application Summit that eight proposals have been selected for the 2013 Internet2 Innovative Application Awards program. Each finalist is building an application using Software-Defined Networking (SDN) to solve the challenges faced by research, education and business networks today. Details about each selected proposal follow this press release.
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network, Inc. announced Tuesday the launch of their Merit MailScreen service. Merit MailScreen is a standalone Secure Email Gateway solution, offering virus, spam and malware filtering that integrates with an existing email service. Powered by Cisco Ironport, Merit MailScreen blocks up to 80 percent of external threats before they are delivered
GRAND RAPIDS - Governor Rick Snyder on Tuesday continued to advocate for Michiganders to call their senators and tell them to take a vote on the House-passed Medicaid reform bill as soon as they can, adding that the later Michigan waits to do so the worse off it will be when the federal Patient Protection
DETROIT - The deadline to submit an application for the DTE Energy SolarCurrents customer-owned pilot program is July 23. . The expansion of the SolarCurrents program has added two megawatts of capacity in four offerings of 500 kilowatts each this year and next. DTE Energy customers interested in participating in the second offering must submit
GRAND RAPIDS - The culture has improved for entrepreneurship in West Michigan, says a new report by Grand Valley State University researchers. The authors of the report, Paul Isely, professor of economics; Sridhar Sundaram, professor of finance; and Michael Kurley, a student at Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, found two key improvements since the original
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is continuing to bare his angst about the seemingly endless revelations concerning the National Security Agency's liberal use of technology. Last week, he expressed his frustrations to Latin American journalists when they chatted with him at San Francisco Airport. He compared America to Russia, CNET News.Com reported. Appearing
LANSING - The University of Michigan approved so far the smallest tuition increase among the 15 state universities and one of its smallest in many years, while Michigan State University approved its expected plan to hike tuition for upper division students more. The U-M Board of Regents approved only a 1.1 percent increase for the
LANSING - The Senate is required to return on Wednesday, July 3, and while Senate officials intend that to be a pro-forma session with no voting, supporters of Medicaid expansion are targeting that day to get the Senate to act on the measure. A spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville (R-Monroe) said Senate officials
DETROIT - Wayne State University announced Thursday two research grants totaling $1.8 million in the Multidisciplinary Research Group Incubator Program, an internal funding program at the university. The seed-funding program is aimed at fostering the development of multidisciplinary research groups with significant growth potential for external funding through centers of excellence grant programs, program project