UM Forecast: State Job Losses To Decline, Growth By 2011
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.
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Eight Ideas For Boosting Michigan's Income, Economy
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.
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Arialink Acquires Lansing-Area Fiber Optic Network
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.
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TechSmith Jing to Get Direct Twitter Output
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.
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GE Software, Manufacturing Center Open; 1,100 Jobs Coming Soon
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.
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Photonics Patents For Ann Arbor Firm
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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UM Economic Outlook Credits Federal Moves For Saving Economy From 'Free Fall'
With the severe national recession of the past two years finally behind us, the pace of economic recovery will be slow and unemployment will remain high for quite some time, say economists at the University of Michigan in their annual forecast for the year ahead. They say the federal government's various maneuvers helped transform an economy in free fall to one growing slowly.
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New Transportation Management Software From Belleville Firm
Belleville-based Active On-Demand has deployed the second major full truckload upgrade to its leading APT transportation management software-as-a-service application.
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Whirlpool Appliances Chosen For Sustainable Kit Homes
Benton Harbor-based Whirlpool Corp. said its appliances will be featured in a new line of high-quality, affordable, sustainable kit homes. The American Sustainability Initiative -- or AmeriSus, for short -- will launch in January with a goal of placing 12,000 affordable sustainable homes throughout 15 states over the next two years.
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Adtegrity.com Profits Fall As Revenue Plummets
Grand Rapids-based Adtegrity.com (Pink Sheets: ADTY), a provider of Internet advertising networks and services, Thursday announced that its net income fell to $86,967 for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 from $196,717 in the same quarter a year earlier. Net revenue was $3.18 million, down from $8.58 million a year earlier.
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Wayne State Doctor's Pasta At Hiller's Funds ALS Research
You can help raise funds for the Hiller ALS Center at the Wayne State University School of Medicine while enjoying a tasty pasta recipe created by one of the school’s faculty members -- available for sale at Hiller's markets.
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High-Tech Sensors From Auburn Hills Auto Supplier
The Beru business unit of Auburn Hills-based BorgWarner Inc. said Wednesday that it is developing new sensors for powertrains and exhaust systems, including temperature, motion and smart sensors with intelligent electronics.
Designed to exacting tolerances, these ultra-precise sensors provide customized measurements to reduce emissions and optimize engine performance.
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Electric Vehicle Firm Wins Spark Boot Camp
Ann Arbor Spark celebrated the conclusion of its 16th Entrepreneur Boot Camp program with participant investor pitches and a reception on Wednesday, Nov. 18. At the Ann Arbor Spark Boot Camp Celebration, Current Motor Co., an Ann Arbor electric vehicle company, was selected as the "Best of Boot Camp" winner, based on the quality of its investor pitch and business plan.
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EMU School Of Technology In Deals With Two Community Colleges
Eastern Michigan University’s School of Technology Studies has signed two separate articulation agreements with two community colleges, Lansing Community College and Macomb Community College.
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Roof Testing Cuts Insurance Industry Safety Grades
Only 27 of 52 evaluated 2010-model vehicles have earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s “Top Safety Pick” this year, AutoTech Daily reported Thursday. IIHS says the number is down in part because of its new roof strength test designed to assess how well a vehicle would protect its occupants during a rollover accident.
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New Web Site Lists H1N1 Clinics, Other Flu Info
A new Web site -- www.semflu.org -- has been created to offer the public a single source of information on H1N1 public immunization clinics for seven southeast Michigan counties as well as the City of Detroit. The counties included in the Web site are Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, Washtenaw and Wayne.
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Saving The Single Cysteine: New Antioxidant System Found At UM
We've all read studies about the health benefits of having a life partner. The same thing is true at the molecular level, where amino acids known as cysteines are much more vulnerable to damage when single than when paired up with other cysteines. Now, researchers at the University of Michigan, along with colleagues in Belgium, have discovered a new antioxidant system to protect the single cysteines.
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Green Bridge Industries Assets Triple
Saranac-based Green Bridge Industries Inc. (Pink Sheets: GRBG) reported a 306 percent increase in total assets for the quarter ending Sept. 30 vs. the previous quarter ending June 30. The Company reported $1,205,886 in total assets for the quarter ending Sept. 30 as compared to $296,760 in the prior quarter, which was attributed to an aggressive merger and acquisition campaign.
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Client Wins From November 19
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