Detroit

In the rare books room at the mammoth store that bears his name, John King reveals a page from the volume that changed the world. “This put the monks out of business,” King said, with type from the Gutenberg Bible on the desk in front of him. John K. King Used & Rare Books, in...

General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) confirmed Thursday that one of its sites would alter production schedule to accommodate fading demand. “As a result of declining overall industry volumes, the Detroit-Hamtramck plant will be making schedule adjustments to keep supply and demand in balance,...

Detroiters can now ask Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)’s Alexa virtual assistant about their water bill, thanks to technology designed by a 24-year-old University of Michigan grad student. The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department’s customer care portal went live Aug. 21, ands since...

Among our many valiant missions here at Benzinga, one the most savored is to enlighten our audience on information they didn't know previously. For example, most of our readers are blissfully unaware that today, Sept. 25, is National Comic Book Day. Comic fan or not, you would be forgiven for...

The Big Three’s success hinges upon the North American Free Trade Agreement, former Mexican President Vicente Fox said during a Detroit appearance Monday. General Motors Company (NYSE: GM), Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (NYSE: FCAU) and Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) “will go broke again...

The architectural firm bearing the name of the late Minoru Yamasaki — who designed the original World Trade Center — is returning to Detroit, the city where Yamasaki’s first skyscraper was built and his work transformed the campus of Wayne State University. Yamasaki, Inc. is...

The Detroit Tigers spiraled out of control this year, on pace for their worst record in more than 10 years. Chris Ilitch, president and CEO of Ilitch Holdings, has remained quiet since assuming leadership of the team after the death of his father, Mike, in February. With that, I'm sticking my...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has asked representatives from all cities and economic organizations in North America to submit a proposal on why the company should bring its "HQ2" to that city. Amazon expects this second headquarters to include as many as 50,000 high-paying jobs. Amazon...

Shares of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (NYSE: FCAU) are higher by more than 70 percent since the start of 2017, but analysts at Deutsche Bank aren't ready to call for an end to the stock's run. The firm's Rod Lache maintains a Hold rating on the Italian-listed stock but noted the risk to reward...

As the vacation season ends with rumbles of war, hints of impeachment, the afterglow of a solar eclipse and the ongoing nightmare of a natural disaster, it’s time to step back and look at the surreal summer of 2017. To paraphrase Stephen Stills: Stop, hey, what’s that sound? Everybody...

“Detroit,” director Kathryn Bigelow’s bleak look into the American psyche through the lens of Motown’s 1967 race riots, was a punishingly hard sell at the box office in its first weekend of wide release, taking in $7.3 million from more than 3,000 screens. The Stephen King...

Hundreds of startups will compete in Detroit — a city that’s increasingly becoming a tech hub — for more than $1 million in prizes in the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition. More than 200 companies participate each year in the competition, which has a $500,000 grand prize...

The tech-training institute Grand Circus is partnering with Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) to provide eight weeks of front-end developer training in Detroit and Grand Rapids beginning in October. Students will receive training in HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, React, Node.js, NPM, AJAX and json,...

A deal between Dan Gilbert's Rock Ventures and Wayne County that would result in the construction of a Major League Soccer stadium in downtown Detroit and a new municipal criminal justice complex is a step closer to reality. Fail Jail The downtown site of Wayne County’s “fail jail...

“Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan’s movie about an Allied retreat that may have paradoxically won World War II, demolished Charlize Theron’s Bondian action thriller “Atomic Blonde,” but the latter’s lean budget and potential legs are reminiscent of its director...