TROY - Join Automation Alley on March 25 for an in-depth look into the different social media options available and how you can use them to grow your business. Speakers: Morning Keynote - Ken Burbary, Big Communications Online Forums and Community Building - Howard Brown, CircleBuilder.com; Case study - Charlie Wollborg, MotorCityConnect.com Social Networking -
TROY - Learn how your organization can utilize document and information sharing systems to improve productivity and enable off-site groups to work together more effectively on March 11 in the next segment of Automation Alley's Business-2-Business series. About the B2B Series: There are a number of affordable automation solutions now available as you expand into
GRAND RAPIDS - Van Andel Research Institute was named Monday by the life sciences magazine The Scientist, in its 7th annual survey, as one of the top fifteen Best Places to Work for Postdocs in the nation. The survey invited readers who identified themselves as �??non-tenured life scientists working in academia or other non-commercial research
GRAND RAPIDS - Adtegrity.com, which specializes in Internet advertising networks and services, reported a fourth quarter profit compared with a loss in the same three months a year ago. The Company�??s unaudited results included net income of $28,644 for the fourth quarter on net revenues of $3.27 million, compared with a net loss of $100,753
PITTSBURGH - The University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs has added Palantir Government - a network-analysis software program designed to organize counter terrorism and cyber security intelligence to its security and intelligence studies curriculum. Developed by Palantir Technologies, Palantir Government has been widely used within U.S. intelligence, defense, and law enforcement
LANSING - Legislative officials expressed regret that the Detroit City Council voted Tuesday to reject a plan to expand Cobo Center, but said they were still committed to efforts to expand the facility and keep the North American International Auto Show in the city. Gov. Jennifer Granholm also expressed disappointment at the action, and doubted
LANSING - Even after the federal government last year poured nearly twice as much money into helping Michigan residents pay utilities and avoid shutoffs, the state's crisis prevention program is still struggling to keep up with added demand brought on by increasing unemployment and winter's high energy costs, experts told a House subcommittee on Tuesday.
DETROIT - General Motors released its financial results Thursday and the numbers are worse than expected. Revenue fell by $31 billion, and the company lost $31 billion. In the fourth quarter revenue fell by $16 billion and it lost nearly $10 billion. Most worrying, GM lost money everywhere in the world, including Asia and Latin
NEW YORK - Cloud computing is the next evolution of technology and capabilities, but it's still in its early adopter phase, according to an IBM spokesperson. IBM and its customers have been experimenting with cloud computing, and while the technology is only now starting to get going, it's generally expected that the uptake in it
STAMFORD, Conn. - With social computing increasingly more important in customer relationship management, it's becoming a disruptive force in the market, stated Gartner. The research firm is predicting that 60 per cent of Fortune 1000 companies will have some form of online community for CRM purposes by 2010. "Social applications offer a great opportunity for