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STERLING HEIGHTS – When Chris Lawson was approached 18 months ago to become the chief executive officer of STAHLS’, he admits he knew nothing about the world’s leading international manufacturer, distributor and direct supplier of garment decoration equipment started in a Warren garage in 1932. He's the former chief financial officer for Ross Roy Communications,
ROYAL OAK - Airfoil Public Relations, after a decade in the Southfield Town Center, will be moving to new custom-built offices in Royal Oak in January. The move is part cost-cutting, part culture-creating. The cost cutting part is Airfoil recovering from the loss of about 20 percent of its billables when long-time client Microsoft Enterprise
ANN ARBOR – Here’s some news that should give Retailers and eTailers a warm feeling this Holiday season. A University of Michigan report released Friday contends consumers will spend more in 2015 and 2016 than they have since 2016, before the long recession began. U-M economist Richard Curtin, director of the U-M Surveys of Consumers,
FERNDALE – On M2 TechCast Monday Nov. 23, cybersecurity experts Richard Stiennon (author of “There will be Cyberwar”) and Dan Lohrmann, the former Michigan Chief Information Security Officer, who now is Chief Security Officer & Chief Strategist at Security Mentor Inc., kick off a new monthly series that will update the latest news about cybersecurity.
ANN ARBOR – During the first decade of this new century Michigan lost nearly a million jobs. In a new forecast by University of Michigan economists, the state will regain two-thirds of those jobs by the end of 2017, returning to employment levels not seen since spring 2003. In their annual November forecast of Michigan's
LOS ANGELES -- The Chevrolet Volt was named 2016 Green Car of the Year today at the L.A. auto show, the first time a vehicle has won the award in two succeeding model generations. Judges noted the 2016 model's "sleek and sporty design, more energy-dense batteries, new electric motors, and quicker acceleration." The car has a more efficient
ANN ARBOR - The annual unemployment rate will likely fall below 5 percent next year - the first time since 2007 - as the U.S. economy grows at its highest rate in a decade, economists at the University of Michigan predicted Thursday. The national economy will add 4.7 million jobs over the next two years
GRAND RAPIDS - A Las Vegas company confirmed Monday that it could build a $5 billion data center in a Grand Rapids suburb - if state legislators approve hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks. Switch would create a new SUPERNAP data center campus in Caledonia, south of Grand Rapids, in and around a pyramid-shaped
ANN ARBOR - Commercial drone maker SkySpecs announced this week that it has raised $3 million in a Series A round led by Venture Investors. The round also included new investment from Huron River Ventures, Amherst Fund and Michigan Angel Fund, along with additional investment from Invest Michigan. “Unlike other drone companies on the market that
LANSING - The Early Stage Venture Investment Fund will see no additional funds under legislation signed Monday by Governor Rick Snyder. Snyder also signed bills allowing high school students to take financial literacy classes for economics credit and increasing fines for certain poaching offenses. The venture fund had come under fire for not being able to
