GRAND RAPIDS - MINDSCAPE at Hanon McKendry, an Internet marketing and web development firm, has launched the MINDSCAPE Content Division. The division brings branded online content development and management in-house, including keyword-focused web page content writing, social media strategy and management, and video concepting and production. "The appetite for online content is huge," said MINDSCAPE
NEW YORK - Major websites are moving to limit the number of tracking technologies like "cookies" spreading on their sites, hoping to keep lucrative data about visitors for themselves - and avoid privacy risks. More sites are counting the number of tracking tools - software that can clandestinely monitor people's activities online - that are
LANSING - Rep. James Bolger (R-Marshall) and Rep. Richard Hammel (D-Mount Morris Twp.) were chosen by their respective caucuses on Tuesday to lead the chamber next term and both emphasized the need to work together to solve Michigan's challenges. Bolger's unopposed ascent to House speaker comes after serving in his first term of office and
LANSING ? Michigan Senate Majority Leader-elect Randy Richardville voiced openness Tuesday to the linchpin of Governor-elect Rick Snyder's economic strategy, replacing the Michigan Business Tax with a 6 percent corporate income tax, but would not promise to support it sight unseen. "We'll certainly look at that," he said. "We have to take a look at
LANSING - A total of 4,755 state employees have opted to take the state's early retirement option, officials with the Department of Technology, Management and Budget said Tuesday, and the largest number of those is retiring from the Department of Human Services. The controversial retirement proposal was finally approved at the end of September and
GRAND RAPIDS - Register for this exciting all day event and attend amazing sessions with talented business, media, and communication professionals at Midwest Social Media Confab Nov. 10 at the J.W. Marriott in downtown Grand Rapids. The keynote will be presented by the author of "The Mirror Test" and former Kodak CMO, Jeffrey Hayzlett. He?s
ANN ARBOR - Governor-elect Rick Snyder, in naming House Speaker Andy Dillon and former Lt. Governor Dick Posthumus to his administration Monday as treasurer and senior adviser for legislative affairs, respectively, said the pair's experience in both the public and private sector was critical. Just as essential in Dillon's and Posthumus' background is their reputation
DETROIT - The nation's major automakers have published their October sales reports, and there is mixed news in the hybrid market. While the Toyota Prius remains the nation's bestselling hybrid, Prius sales in October were down 9.9 percent from October 2009. In October 2010 Toyota sold 11,731 vehicles, down from 13,496 a year ago. Sales
ANN ARBOR - Advanced Photonix Inc. announced Friday an agreement in principle with Arlington, Va.-based In-Q-Tel to engineer a low cost terahertz "anomaly detection" device, and deliver multiple systems for evaluation. IQT, is a non-profit investment firm established in 1999 to work on behalf of United States intelligence agencies. It focuses on identifying new and
FRAMINGHAM - The world smartphone market continues to explode. For the first three quarters of this year, vendors shipped more than 200 million units, up two-thirds from the 119.6 million units shipped during the first three quarters of 2009. According to the International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of