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BAE Systems expands in Sterling Heights, creates 1,019 jobs
Source: metromode, 4/24/2008
Mark down another big hit for the MEDC now that BAE Systems announced it would expand it facilities in Sterling Heights and create 460 jobs directly and another 559 indirectly.
TStream Technologies plans for expansion and new hires
Source: metromode, 4/24/2008
Building a business one piece at a time. That's what Tony Hernandez is doing with his IT start-up TStream Technologies, which has already doubled its number of employees in three years and hopes to add a couple more soon.
Lawrence Tech makes better bridges
Source: metromode, 4/24/2008
Lawrence Tech is pushing the envelope of bridge development forward, winning recognition for building stronger, longer-lasting bridges for roads and highways.
Pixelcrew bands together to take on web-based work
Source: metromode, 4/24/2008
The economy is looking up to Stephen Couchman and the rest of his happy band of web problem solvers called the Pixelcrew. The group of contractors expects large amounts of business to break through later this year and next.
Entrepreneurship program coming to U-M Dearborn
Source: metromode, 4/24/2008
Every major institution in Michigan wants to help transform the state's economy from a brawn-based one to a brain-based one. The University of Michigan-Dearborn is getting in on the act by launching a program specifically geared toward entrepreneurship and innovation.
World Robofest Championship comes to Lawrence Tech this weekend
Source: metromode, 4/24/2008
Robots will take it to the mat this Saturday when the World Robofest 2008 Championship at Lawrence Tech. Hundreds of students and the robots they designed and built will compete for thousands of dollars of scholarship money.
Green Space: Ann Arbor launches website to assess state of city's environment
Source: metromode, 4/24/2008
Leading the charge in information-providing when it comes to municipal environmental transparency is Ann Arbor. The city just launched a website that details its progress in multiple categories of environmental goals it has set for itself.
VisionIT employs 1500, to add 30 more local jobs this year
Source: Model D, 4/24/2008

Detroit may be known as the world capital in auto jobs, but VisionIT is working to change that perception. The New Center-based IT firm has grown to 1,500 employees and expects to create 30 new jobs this year.

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Digital Edge to help MI start-ups network, expand
Source: Concentrate, 4/24/2008
Putting the right local entrepreneur in the right place in the right time. That's what Digital Edge is trying to do in Michigan by creating the equivalent of Facebook for local new economy start-ups.
Online Technologies looks to become data storage bank to the world
Source: Concentrate, 4/24/2008
Storing data is allowing Online Technologies to build up some jobs in Ann Arbor. The data-storage start-up has just hired three, has two jobs open and plans to bring on another two or three people by the end of the year.
Aqaba Technologies buys firm, creates growth, adds jobs
Source: metromode, 4/17/2008
Aqaba Technologies is branching out, creating jobs and buying a 20-year-old firm.
European laptop maker Zepto sets up distribution center in Dearborn
Source: metromode, 4/17/2008
A computer maker is setting up a distribution center in Dearborn. Danish laptop maker Zepto hopes to break into the U.S. market through Metro Detroit by selling personalized computers.
TechTeam lands big govt' contract, considers Michigan expansion
Source: metromode, 4/17/2008
TechTeam is making Michigan proud by wining more work and keeping hundreds of techies on its payroll in Southfield and Ann Arbor. But the technology firm could also create a few hundred more jobs in Metro Detroit in the not-too-distant future if it continues to capitalize on its business plan.
Technology Solutions wins awards, grows payroll in Livonia
Source: metromode, 4/17/2008
Few things feel as good as winning an award. Technology Solutions knows that feeling well, winning two prizes at the Technology Assurance Group's top telecommunications awards this year.
Oakland County surpasses $1 billion in new economy investment, 11,000 jobs
Source: metromode, 4/17/2008
What's $1 billion between friends? A lot in Metro Detroit where Oakland County is announcing that its Emerging Sectors program has attracted more than $1 billion in investment and created 11,732 jobs in the last four years.
New Economy Initiative gets new leadership to help create new jobs
Source: metromode, 4/17/2008
There's a new economy sheriff in town, John Austin. He's the new executive director for the New Economy Initiative, a $100 million effort aimed at transforming Metro Detroit's economy.
Green Space: Earth Day '08 takes over SE Michigan
Source: metromode, 4/17/2008
Earth Day may just be the one remnant of Environmentalism 1.0 that has continued year after year. The good part is that 2.0 has made it fun! Green Space points you to a few of the cooler Earth Day events around the area.
NextGen Sciences develops drugs, jobs in Ann Arbor
Source: Concentrate, 4/17/2008
Research is a hotbed for business in Ann Arbor and NextGen Sciences is taking advantage of it. The drug research firm has been growing between 10 to 15 percent each year since its founding in 2001.
U-M opens newer, bigger nanotechnology research lab
Source: Concentrate, 4/17/2008
The University of Michigan is already considered essential to the state's economic future, but it's upping the ante by opening a newly renovated and expanded nanotechnology research center. That facility is expected to increase the estimated $500 million the old facility already contributed to the state's economy.
Detroit IT firm FutureNet Group expects to add 25 jobs this year
Source: Model D, 4/17/2008
As Detroit turns its economic ship around, it is small businesses like FutureNet Group that are pushing it in that direction. The IT firm expects to add 25 jobs this year to its existing staff of 45 people.
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