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Michigan Science Center Ready To Rock With New Interactive Music Exhibit

“The Science of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” a 10,000-square-foot traveling exhibit that celebrates the great history of the music genre and the key role science plays in its development, will take the stage at the renamed Michigan Science Center on June 20.

WWJ Newsradio 950–8 hours ago

The atrium fountain at Compuware headquarters in downtown Detroit. Photo courtesy Maia Cowan.

Compuware Offers Free Mobile Performance Monitoring For iOS, Android Mobile Apps

Detroit-based Compuware Corp. (Nasdaq:CPWR) Tuesday announced the release of the Compuware APM Mobile Application Monitoring Free Edition at the Velocity 2013 Conference in Santa Clara, Calif.

WWJ Newsradio 950–8 hours ago

CompleteClass.org Encourages Youth To Live Healthy

A pair of entrepreneurs in Detroit’s Green Garage business center has launched CompleteClass.org, an online reward system and learning platform that rewards kids for their efforts at living a health-conscious lifestyle, to be a more involved scholar and to become an educated citizen of the world.

WWJ Newsradio 950–8 hours ago

Chris Rizik and Jeff Rinvelt of the Renaissance Venture Fund

Renaissance VC Fund Invests, Michigan Businesses Grow

The Renaissance Venture Capital Fund, Michigan’s venture capital fund-of-funds, announced that its initial investment of $16.7 million has led to a total venture capital investment of nearly $300 million in 20 new Michigan companies and the creation of hundreds of high-wage jobs.

WWJ Newsradio 950–8 hours ago

Qstride Announces Got BI? Marketing Initiative Offering $50K Of BI Technology for Clients

Qstride, the Detroit business intelligence and analytics provider, said Tuesday that it will begin offering $50,000 of no-cost software licenses of MicroStrategy to its client companies as part of its new “Got BI?” public awareness initiative.

WWJ Newsradio 950–9 hours ago

Photo Credit From http://concertofcolors.com/

“Concert of Colors” Celebrates 21 Years of Metro-Detroit’s Cultural Diversity

Started back in 1993, Concert of Colors was a modest, single day event with the simple goal of bringing the diversity of metro-Detroiters together through music from around the world. Today, it has become a part of the summertime traditions here in Detroit, with 2013 marking its 21st year. This year the concert series with travel to multiple venues in Midtown Detroit over 4 days, still with the same goal of celebrating the wealth of global diversity that fills metro-Detroit through music.

CBS 62–16 hours ago

Quicken Loans Is America’s No. 1 IT Workplace — Again

It’s the fourth time at No. 1 on the Computerworld list for the Detroit-based mortgage lender. Also in at No. 57: Southfield-based Secure-24

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/06/17

From Left to Right, Bob Impemba and Andy Bird. Photo Credit - Adam Claeys.

DETROIT PROUD: Almost Free

Inspired from the sounds of Jimi Hendrix to Nirvana to The Smiths to Radiohead, Almost Free is the Detroit trio band that can be hard to pin into any one category of music. Formed here in Metro Detroit, the band has been together for 10 years and consists of members Andy Bird (guitar, vocals, and lyrics), Bob Impemba (bass, synthesizer, and noise), and Garren Stevens (drums).

CBS 62–2013/06/17

Camtronics’ Lock-down System To Improve Police Response Time For School

Camtronics, a security systems integrator in Detroit, said Monday it had collaborated with the pre-K-through-8 All Saints Catholic School and the Canton Police Department to implement a new lock-down system reducing response time in the event of a campus threat.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/06/17