Over 2000 positions are available at eight new tech-centric companies scheduled to open this summer in Detroit’s TechTown.  These are the start-ups and what they’ll be doing: Jellistic: Makes shopping easier for end-consumers by providing access to websites featuring items that end-consumers are most likely to shop for Spontification: Develops strategies...

The first day on a new job is always a challenge. There's a lot to learn, and it's important not to get discouraged.

Bucking a growing trend among companies that fear setting precedents for legal, financial and philosophical reasons, Tanbury International announced this week that it has tentatively set one. CEO Marcia Wormley declined to identify the precedent, other than to say it is “precedent-setting.” “We invested significant resources and researched the issue for...

Patrick Waterston, CEO of PlumRankTwelve, resigned on Monday following an offensive tweet that was shared over 280 million times.  At 10:12 AM he tweeted a congratulatory message to the rotation-based company’s 1200 employees: @PWatersPlum:  Hats off to everyone at PlumRankTwelve for exceeding parameters 189 quarters in a row.  You did...

Detroit-based phone app SSSSssss – which connects people who want to flatten someone’s tires with people who are willing to flatten them – has closed on $55 million in pre-seed funding from venture capitalist Millsap’s VC of Cartaret, New Jersey. SSSSssss founder and CEO Jennifer Spitzlin says her group had...

Employees with a healthy work/life balance have long been perceived as more valuable than their unbalanced peers - usually invited onto more task forces and getting smiled at more often by the CEO. But how does a company know employees are actually achieving this balance – and not just saying...

With the recall of an additional eight million vehicles last week, General Motors is on the brink of achieving a major milestone in automotive history: More of its vehicles under recall than not. When that day arrives, according to sources, the automaker will start sending out non-recall notices to customers...

Q: I just finished my weekly shopping at Ed's Club, the bulk merchandise warehouse. As usual, the people who work there treated me like dirt – one guy stocking shelves just rolled his eyes when I asked where the peanut butter was, and the cashier snapped at me...

Like most major cities, Detroit has its share of artisan businesses – breweries, clothiers, paper-clip makers, and thousands more. As of next month, it will boast its first artisan CPA Firm: Hewlett Artisan Certified Public Accounting. “The artisan movement is about more than making things,” says firm founder Jennifer Hewlett. “It’s...

PROXITOL - developers of the popular Stand-In Parent - announced this week that its long-awaited ScareBoss will be mass marketed staring in January of 2022. The mannequin-like figures, made of synthetic bylenol plastic, are customized to look just like the actual boss. They can be leaned against a file cabinet...

A popular employee at Milwaukee’s Lamernoy Genistics is taking its CEO to court over the right to keep using a friendly greeting he says he invented and has been using for over 20 years.   Says analyst Max Torrey:  “I go up to people, put one hand on their left...

If you’ve been on a number of job interviews and you still haven’t been hired, you might be doing something wrong - or more than one thing wrong.  According to the American Bureau of Job Placement, these are the top four mistakes that often disqualify candidates from being hired: ...