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Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Rochester's Brand Labs quintuples employee base in less than two years

Brand Labs is looking to take its brand of e-commerce outsourcing and turn it into jobs in Rochester.

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

BOSSdev on track for 100 percent growth this year

BOSSdev in Troy isn't just growing, it's going completely gangbusters, as the firm prepares for another 100-percent-plus growth year in 2008.

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Advisicon looks to go from two to 15 people within two years

Advisicon's Metro Detroit office is prepared to make a big jump in employee numbers, going from 2 to 15 within two years.

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Fisher CoachWorks expects ultra-light hybrid bus to create 1,000 jobs

Fisher CoachWorks has been reborn, this time as the manufacturer of the Chevy
Volt of hybrid buses.

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

CerMet Lab plans to grow 10 fold by end of 2009

CerMet Lab thinks it has a magic answer for better fuel efficiency in cars and better job creation and Michigan.

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Interactive Capacity Gateway turns online logistics into Metro Detroit jobs

Southfield-based Interactive Capacity Gateway creates software that helps other firms manage logistics via the Internet.

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

GREEN SPACE: The Dream Cruise gets, well, a bit greener

The Dream Cruise is kinda like the antithesis of what Green Space is all about. So this week's edition is about damning with faint praise the small efforts the event is making to 'greenify' itself -- along with pointing out the bad stuff it continues to do.

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Caraco's profits soar from pharmaceutical sales, hires hundreds

Caraco Pharmaceuticals is making mega bucks in the Motor City as the Detroit-based firm continues to add dozens of local jobs.

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Pipex Pharmaceuticals hires former Pfizer workers, has three job openings

Pipex Pharamaceuticals is helping budding drug companies on their journey to FDA approval. Good thing it's staying put to do it, bringing in three more people to Ann Arbor.

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

ADR expects huge growth in Ann Arbor, looking for 3-4 people

ADR is looking to take a few big steps forward this year, and it's starting by hiring 3-4 people.

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

TradeMaster's growth doubles down, plans to hire as many as 8 people

TradeMaster is mastering its trade as it introduces it products to the west of the U.S. and continues its rapid growth.

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Start-up SellMyBusiness.com aims for $10 million in first year

SellMyBusiness.com is, you guessed it, making it easier for people to buy and sell businesses on the Internet. The Bingham Farms-based firm hopes to hit $10 million in revenue this year.

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Adopt-A-Watt establishes an alternative energy presence in Metro Detroit

A Royal Oak company wants to help companies make a statement about the environment. Adopt-A-Watt wants to sell sponsorship of solar-powered streetlights in a similar way the adopt-a-highway program works.

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

VIOPOINT turns efficiencies for clients into jobs, plans to hire 2-3

VIOPOINT focuses on making a businesses information readily available to the right people and is doing it so well its making jobs readily available to the right people. The firm hopes to hire 2-3 people within the next year.

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Tipping Point creates jobs while building brands in Rochester, plans to hire 3-4

Rochester-based Tipping Point is creating jobs by helping firms build their brands. The firm has become so successful it expects to hire another 3-4 people this year.

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

German-based Mackevision to move office to downtown Ferndale

Mackevision may be from Germany but its creating jobs here in its soon-to-be-occupied Ferndale office.

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ensure Technologies to create 3-5 jobs as it expands in Ypsilanti

Ensure Technologies is bringing more people into its fold by keeping wandering eyes out of its customers' fold. The Ypsilanti-based company has been doing it so well it expects to add another 3-5 jobs in the next few years.

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

GREEN SPACE: The politics of green

In this edition of metromode's weekly environmental column, writer Kelli B. Kavanaugh looks at the effect state and national politics are having on efforts to green Michigan. It ain't all pretty.

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Saline's Wadia Digital breaks into iPod sector and creates jobs

Wadia Digital is going after the growing iPod business sector by introducing more products to complement the music player. That strategy has proven successful as the Saline-based firm has grown its revenues by 30 percent, hired two people and looks to hire two more by the end of the year.

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

SciTech developing cancer drug in Detroit's TechTown, plans to hire 10 people

SciTech doesn't just see the light at the end of the tunnel for its latest cancer-fighting drug, it sees a drug with a bright future that can create lots of jobs in Detroit.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Troy-based LMS Engineering looks to double in size in five years

LMS may have started in Belgium but it's growing here. The engineering firm has expanded to more than 90 people in Troy today and hopes to double that number within five years.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

MyTechnology wants Knexus program to become the library for the PC

Everybody loves a library and Paul Drallos is betting most people want one for their computer, too. That's why the Berkley-based entrepreneur/innovator invented Knexus.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Global LT expects 30 percent growth as it approaches 30th anniversary

Global LT is making headway teaching corporate suits what do to in Rome. The Troy-based business expects to grow its ranks 10 to 15 percent this year.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Pfizer lab in Plymouth to become Life Science and Innovation Center

Another post-Pfizer success story is in the works. This time its turning the company's Plymouth facilities into the Life Science and Innovation Center.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

MessageWay uses file transfer technology to create 3-4 jobs this year

More jobs are coming MessageWay's way this year as the file-transfer-technology company plans to hire three to four new people.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Smart Disk's spinal innovation provides economic backbone for new start-up

The people behind Smart Disk are close to developing a smart way to replace things like spinal disks, through a patient's back instead of the usual route through the stomach.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

GREEN SPACE: The time has come for LED

While compact fluorescent bulbs are an improvement in terms of energy efficiency over light bulbs, many pundits are saying the real improvements are coming with the rise in LED usage.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Advanced Photonix creates 25 jobs in Ann Arbor, plans for 100 more

Advanced Photonoix is adding new hires as it continues to market its semiconductor sensors to new industries.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Dexter-based CareEvolution doubles employee base, adding five new positions

Getting doctors the right information about patients at the right time seems like a no-brainer. Easier said than done. Which is why Dexter-based CareEvolution is growing quickly, more than doubling its employee base.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

IC Data Communications continues to create jobs in Detroit's TechTown

The people behind IC Data Communication were looking for an evergreen industry and found it by supplying IT services in Detroit and making jobs in the Motor City.