ANN ARBOR - At the 2015 Michigan Venture Capital Association Annual Awards Dinner, the MVCA announced its 2016 executive committee and board of directors. “MVCA is fortunate to have always had the right chairman at the helm of the organization at the right time,” said MVCA Executive Director Maureen Miller Brosnan. “MVCA Chairman Tony Grover, Managing
LANSING - Students in online programs are more likely to fail a course than are students in a traditional classroom, a report by the Michigan Virtual University released Tuesday said. The report found that the number of virtual education programs is expanding in the state, but there are still disparities in the numbers of students
DETROIT - AT&T Inc. says it is planning to expand its one gigabit-speed AT&T GigaPower service to homes, apartments and businesses in the Detroit area during 2016, joining a parade that includes Comcast Cable and Rocket Fiber. The exact locations and timing of the new service in the Detroit area is not yet available, the
LANSING - As the Michigan House may take up sales, use and personal property tax exemptions for data centers - inspired by Switch, a Nevada-based data center looking to move to the state if the tax changes are made - existing data centers in the state are advocating for changes that would "level the playing
DETROIT - Diva Tech Talk, three female technologists who have created an Internet podcast with national reach, have now created a news section to showcase the news articles, podcasts and other accolades they’ve garnered so far. Diva Tech Talk is a content partner of MITechNews.Com. The Divas are Kathleen Norton-Schock, a Baby Boomer who is
STAMFORD - In the third quarter of 2015, worldwide server shipments grew 9.2 percent from the third quarter of 2014, while vendor revenue increased 7.5 percent year over year. "The third quarter of 2015 produced growth on a global level with mixed results by region," said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner. "All regions
DETROIT - Southeast Michigan employment levels continued to rise in the third quarter, according to the latest labor market report compiled by the Workforce Intelligence Network for Southeast Michigan. The WIN report showed 15,000 people got jobs in the third quarter, and now 38,205 more people are working in the region than in the third
MENLO PARK, Calif. - With holiday deals starting earlier each year, the temptation to act on them – even while at the office – is great. And the ability to bag up bargains on company time is growing, a new Robert Half Technology survey shows: One-quarter of chief information officers (CIOs) said their firms allow unrestricted access
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,
