WARREN - Six high-tech science and technology teams from four continents have been named finalists in the inaugural Multi Autonomous Ground-Robotic International Challenge (MAGIC 2010) hosted by the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center. Teams from the United States, Turkey, Japan and Australia have been selected by the U.S. and the Australian
LANSING - In a split decision, the Supreme Court overturned lower courts Friday by finding that copying pornographic images of children to a disc does not constitute manufacture. Brian Hill was convicted of making or producing child sexually abusive materials for copying images form the Internet and saving them to compact discs. Hill argued that
SOUTHFIELD ? Secure-24, a managed hosting, disaster recovery, and managed services for the mission-critical IT applications of industry and government, has 47 job openings. Secure-24 was named 2010 SAP Pinnacle Award Finalist for IT Outsourcing Partner of the Year, the only US based partner to receive the nomination. What's more, the company just hired Inga
ANN ARBOR - Cerenis Therapeutics SA, a biotech company with dual headquarters in Ann Arbor and France, has secured $51.7 million in venture capital to continue developing its cholesterol therapy technologies, executives said Sunday night, the biggest Michigan venture investment in nearly four years. The transaction is the biggest venture capital deal for a Michigan
SOUTHFIELD ? In 2001, two German SAP specialists moved from California to Michigan and decided if they could land three clients in three months, they could make a go of a hosting business. Nine years later, Secure-24 has more than 100 clients, including a dozen that individually generate revenues of more than $1.5 billion annually.
SALINE ? Leadership confidence is declining in the latest Leadership Pulse study from eePulse. The survey also indicated a lack of capital for business execution is depressing confidence. "Our research indicates that leadership confidence is linked to individual and firm performance," said Theresa M. Welbourne, Ph.D., eePulse Founder, President and CEO and Research Professor with
LANSING - Advanced manufacturing now accounts for more than 10 percent of all employment in Michigan and the value of the employment has grown substantially in the state at the same time the economy weakened, a report commissioned by the University Research Corridor contends. The report also said the role the state's three largest research
AUBURN HILLS ? Gibbs Technologies is hiring around 100 people to help the company build the protypes for its new high-speed, power-sports amphiquad called the Gibbs Quadski ? a cross between an all terrain vehicle and a jet ski. Gibbs Chairman Neil Jenkins said the company expects to hire up to 100 new salaried and
SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. said its Kindle device and e-book sales business were accelerating, despite competition from other dedicated e-reading devices and multi-purpose devices such as Apple Inc.'s iPad. In a rare glimpse into sales for the device, Amazon said the growth rate of Kindle device unit sales had tripled since the company lowered its
LANSING - Andrew Levin, currently deputy director for workforce transformation, will head the department of Energy, Labor and Economic Development beginning next week, Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced Monday. Skip Pruss, who took the helm of the agency when it was restructured about two years ago, will retire effective July 23 to join a new energy