ANN ARBOR - Zingerman's Deli, the gourmet food company, plans to hire about 300 temporary workers for its baking operation in the coming weeks to help process the company's holiday mail orders, about 100 more than the year before. Pat McGraw of Zingerman?s human resources department said the hiring demand this year is typical of
STAMFORD, Conn. ? Media tablets, Internet of Things, Mobile-Centric Applications, In-Memory Computing, and Cloud Computing are just some of the top 10 technologies and trends that think tank Gartner Group believes will be strategic for most organizations in 2012. Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise
LANSING - The Michigan legislative lifeline on a bill authorizing the New International Trade Crossing was cut Thursday when a key committee fell two votes short of reporting SB 410 to the full Senate. Like all major legislative losses, it ended with both sides pointing fingers at who was to blame. Senate Majority Leader Randy
SAN FRANCISCO - Malware has been discovered on computer systems in Europe that has identical code to the Stuxnet worm and could be the precursor to the next big computer attack on critical infrastructure systems, Symantec reported this week. A second Stuxnet attack was predicted in Cyber Styletto./p> Unlike Stuxnet, which targeted specific Siemens SCADA
RESTON, VA - 72.2 million Americans accessed social networking sites or blogs on their mobile device in August 2011, an increase of 37 percent in the past year, comScore reported. The study also provided new insights into how mobile users interact with social media, finding that more than half read a post from an organization,
LANSING - Legislation to require Internet retailers to collect Michigan sales tax on purchases made by state residents was opposed by several operators of small sites, saying the legislation could dramatically hurt their business, in the second hearing before the House Tax Policy Committee held Wednesday. But the committee held off acting on HB 5004
ANN ARBOR - The roles Sharon Matthews has fielded so far are hardly the stuff of cakewalks: high school dropout; single mom; gunshot victim. But her toughest role yet begins next month: Guinea pig. The 41-year-old Detroit resident and her 15-year-old daughter are among the 11,000 Michigan families banned from welfare, as the state of
LONDON - Concerns are mounting that a hoped for light rail line along Woodward Avenue in Detroit is in trouble, but U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, visiting Dearborn on Monday, said the federal government is all-in on the project. LaHood announced $48 million in transit projects for Michigan as part of $930 million nationally, with
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder hasn't been shy about wading into previously intractable issues, and now he's headed into one of the most infamous: regional public transit for metro Detroit with his announcement Monday of a task force on the issue. The state of the public busing system in the Detroit area has been lamented
LANSING - The money Michigan will have to commit to future economic development incentives will depend on the nature of personal property tax reform, but officials are looking to increase the initial $100 million appropriation, Doug Rothwell said Monday. In an interview with Gongwer News Service, the chair of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation's Executive