Made possible through a partnership between the Investor Protection Trust and Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation, Investor Education in Your Community offers FREE beginning and intermediate sessions to help individuals make informed investment decisions. Click here for info and to find a workshop near you.
A free informational Medicare seminar is being offered to the public every Tuesday starting November 3 and running until Thanksgiving to provide information on Medicare options and to offer individuals assistance in finding the right Medicare plan for their particular health situation. The purpose of these seminars is to assist those that have lost their company funded policies or those that don’t understand how Medicare works for them. The start time is 10 a.m. at 800 Tower Drive, in Troy. For more information, call 1-888-776-9379
Networking is an integral part of business growth and lead generation, yet many people feel uncomfortable connecting with new people. Join Automation Alley’s Business Growth Committee to learn more about what you can do to make networking work for you. This event series will take place Oct. 14, Dec. 9, Feb. 17 and April 14. Events will go from 4-6:30 p.m and is $25 for Automation Valley members, $50 for non-members. For more information, please click on the title above.
Novemer 20, 2009
Worldwide Automotive Report
More rough words from former auto task force chair. November sales look steady. GM exec says they'll call everybody who brought their car back.
November 19, 2009
Worldwide Automotive Report
Government wants quick IPO at GM. Chrysler keeps eye on supplier plant. SAE plans changes for next year's World Congress.
November 18, 2009
Worldwide Automotive Report
Ford's Fusion is Motor Trend Car of Year. Domestics score several top safety picks.
November 17, 2009
Worldwide Automotive Report
GM talks about moving more people out of the Ren Cen. Ford stock hits two year high. Coming soon...a new Buick Regal.
November 16, 2009
Worldwide Automotive Report
We talk one on one with GM CEO Fritz Henderson about their 1.2 billion dollar loss.
After a year of job losses they called "nothing short of mind-boggling," University of Michigan economists are calling for more modest job losses in 2010 and actual job gains in the state by the second half of 2011.
How can Michigan grow its economy? A Kalamazoo economist counted the ways -- eight of them -- Friday at the University of Michigan's 37th Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics. Timothy J. Bartik, senior economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, outlined four strategies for cutting marginal business costs and four strategies for improving workers' skills.
Lansing-based Arialink Thursday announced that it had completed acquisition and integration of network assets and customers of a Lansing based telecommunication provider formerly operating as Waypoint. The principal asset was a 100 mile fiber optic network located in and around Lansing. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Okemos-based TechSmith Corp., the provider of screen capture and recording softwrae, Thursday announced the availability of the latest release of its Jing product effective Dec. 8. The new version offers customers a new simple, fast and fun way to add screen-captured images and videos to Twitter, or any online conversation, just by sharing a link.
General Electric Corp. Thursday announced the appointment of Vic Bhagat, 44, as site leader of GE’s Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center -- a state-of-the-art IT and research and development center now open in Van Buren Township. The center has 20 employees now, but growth to 1,100 employees is planned over the next few years.
Picometrix LLC, a subsidiary of Ann Arbor-based Advanced Photonix Inc. (NYSE Amex: API), announced this week that it had been awarded United States Patent No. 7,078,741 for enhanced responsivity photodiodes and No. 7,468,503 for planar photodiodes. These technologies can be used individually or in combination and are deployed in the company's high-speed optical receiver product offerings.
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