EAST LANSING - The Michigan State University College of Engineering will have more than 1,000 women students, from freshmen to seniors, in the college when classes start at MSU - a first at MSU Engineering. The upward trend follows the college's overall enrollment increase in the past several years. "This fall we are welcoming one
ANN ARBOR - Americans spend 10 percent less time making trips for daily activities than they did a decade ago, says a University of Michigan researcher. In another in a series of reports that examines recent motorization trends in the U.S., Michael Sivak of the U-M Transportation Research Institute says that the average time spent
STAMFORD, Conn. - In the second quarter of 2015, worldwide server shipments grew 8 percent year over year, while revenue increased 7.2 percent from the second quarter of 2014, Gartner reported Tuesday. "The second quarter year-over-year growth for 2015 slowed compared with the annual growth of the first quarter of the year," said Jeffrey
GRAND RAPIDS - CIOReview has chosen The KR Group for its 20 Most Promising Cisco Solution Providers 2015. The KR Group offers multiple communication services leveraging the Cisco ecosystem; including unified communications, virtualization, disaster recovery, data center and managed communication. The annual list of companies is selected by a panel of experts and members
ANN ARBOR - On Wednesday, LLamasoft, announced partnerships with three supply chain companies to provide increasingly detailed data to its modeling customers. Transplace, a 3PL and supply chain technology company and long-term LLamasoft partner, increased engagement with LLamasoft customers by providing intra-Mexico benchmark truckload rate data. This highly sought-after data complements the data already available
ATLANTA - In a survey, iPhone 6s consumers were most excited about the rumored new 12-megapixel camera (32 percent), followed by a more durable frame and faster A9 Processor (20 percent). The survey, done by Protect Your Bubble, queried more than 625 people across the country and took the pulse of a variety of topics
DETROIT - Comerica Bank's Michigan Economic Activity Index grew in June, increasing 1.9 percentage points or 71 percent, above the index cyclical low of 74. The index, now at 126.8, averaged 117.4 points for all of 2014, three and one-third points above the index average for 2013. May's index reading was 124.9. "Our Michigan
EGHAM, UK - Gartner Inc. said worldwide smartphone sales recorded the slowest growth rate since 2013 in the second quarter of 2015, some 330 million units, an increase of just 13.5 percent over the same period in 2014, reflecting a quarterly decline in China, about a third of the world market. "While demand for
ANN ARBOR - If you want to work for a high-growth Michigan technology company, LLamasoft wants to hear from you. In fact the company has more than 20 IT job openings. If you want to find out more, supply chain management company is hosting a job mixer Wednesday from 4 to 7 pm. LLamasoft is
AUBURN HILLS - Grand Circus Detroit and the Macomb-OU INCubator are partnering to offer a free Introduction to Coding workshop on Sept. 15. This workshop is designed for folks who are curious about coding, but who have little to no experience. This workshop is the perfect time to learn the programming foundations needed to eventually