SOUTHFIELD - While the selection of hybrid models in the U.S. has more than doubled since 2007, only 35 percent of hybrid vehicle owners choose to purchase a hybrid again when returning to market in 2011, according to recent analysis by Polk. If repurchase behavior among the high volume audience of Toyota Prius owners isn't
PLYMOUTH - Esperion Therapeutics announced the appointment of Noah Rosenberg, MD, as its chief medical officer. Dr. Rosenberg will lead the Esperion clinical advisory board and will develop and manage the company's clinical programs. He will also manage the regulatory review process for the company's innovative investigational therapies to prevent, treat and reverse cardiovascular and
GRAND RAPIDS - Davenport University has introduced a new Risk Management and Insurance specialty within its Bachelor of Business Administration in Management program beginning in the fall of 2012. Farmers Insurance, which worked with Davenport to develop the curriculum, has also made a generous commitment to provide $10,000 for the next three years toward student
ANN ARBOR - Dean Baker, the former GM Body-in-White Chief Manufacturing Engineer, is a new principal at Fulcrum Edge. Baker holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from General Motors Institute (Kettering University), a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and is certified as a Project Management Professional by
ANN ARBOR ? University of Michigan economists issued a mid-year report that said the Michigan economy is beginning its third year of recovery after exiting a debilitating recession at the end of 2009. But revised data shows the recovery has been a little stronger than initially thought - a gain of 121,600 jobs over the
WASHINGTON D.C. - The nation's major wireless providers have agreed to a deal with the U.S. government to build a central database of stolen cellphones, what the Wall Street Journal called part of a broad effort to tame an explosion of thefts nationwide. The database, which the wireless companies will build and maintain, will be
MIAMI - American Express OPEN will spotlight small business achievements in government contracting with the third annual Victory in Procurement Awards. Interested business owners will need to fill out the application and email it to [email protected] by May 1, 2012. The VIP Awards are part of American Express OPEN?s Victory in Procurement (VIP) for Small
MOSCOW - Flashback, a piece of malware targeting users of Apple's Mac OS X, is now estimated to be quietly running on more than 600,000 machines around the world. That number, which came from Russian antivirus company Dr. Web earlier this week, was confirmed by security firm Kaspersky. More than 98 percent of the affected
LONDON - Anonymous launched a Distributed Denial of Service against several UK government websites amid a massive recruiting campaign on social media, a call to arm to protest the extradition of U.K. citizens to the United States. The Operation named ?Operation Trial At Home,? fight the European Arrest Warrant that could lead to the extradition
ANN ARBOR - Every financier, venture capitalist, investor, consultant, banker, and successful entrepreneur talks about managing cash flow, the lifeblood of any old and new enterprise. But few people know or adequately explain what it is, why it is important, how to manage it through ups and downs. Many entrepreneurs also do not realize that