Events/Announcements

DETROIT - The Southeast Michigan Purchasing Managers Index for April, though down from March, still suggests economic growth.

ANN ARBOR ? An attempt to sell a limited number of tickets for the University of Michigan Football fall campaign by the U-M Alumni Association Thursday went terribly wrong when the volume of traffic crashed the web servers, producing instead a huge volume of complaints. The online sale started at 10 a.m. Thursday. By late

DETROIT - The digital shopping landscape is the focus of a new study from Deloitte Digital, which showed interactions influence 36 cents of every dollar spent in the retail store, or approximately $1.1 trillion. By the end of 2014, that number will climb to 50 percent, or $1.5 trillion of total store sales. The study,

NEW YORK - The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record high Wednesday after the Fed cut another $10 billion from its monthly stimulus payments. The Dow is now positive for the year after rising 45.47 points, or 0.3 percent, to 16,580.84. It was the Dow's first record close of the year, beating its

NOVI - ITC Holdings Corp., the nation?s largest independent electricity transmission company, has donated $250,000 to Lawrence Technological University to establish the ITC Power Engineering Endowed Scholarship in LTU?s College of Engineering. It will provide a fulltime student with half tuition each year. ITC will also offer a paid internship each year to the student

LANSING - Toyota Motors announced Monday that it was expanding its Ann Arbor technology campus, adding some 250 jobs in the area as the giant automaker announced a massive consolidation of its U.S. operations. The company announced it was consolidating its U.S. headquarters into Plano, Texas. The expansion in Ann Arbor will relocate its direct

LANSING - Business Leaders for Michigan headed a coalition urging the Legislature to support adoption of the Smarter Balanced assessment as a replacement for the Michigan Education Assessment Program. The groups noted that school districts have already been implementing the Common Core State Standards and that some districts are beginning to try Smarter Balanced next

LANSING - Only 76 percent of Michigan high school students graduate in the normal time, compared to 81 percent nationally, a report released during the weekend showed. The report, by a variety of groups including Civic Enterprises, the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, America's Promise Alliance and the Alliance for Excellent Education, showed

WASHINGTON DC - It's not often that the US government weighs in on the browser wars, but a new Internet Explorer vulnerability that affects all major versions of the browser from the past decade has forced it to raise an alarm: Stop using IE. This zero-day exploit is an unpatched flaw in the Microsoft browser

MARSHALL ? Two brothers working for Eaton share more than just a family name and an employer ? they now each have won the Eaton Gamechanger Award, the company?s highest recognition for innovative employees who drive breakthrough results for their work on different advanced technologies that enable significant fuel savings benefits. Older brother Tom Genise