Five Ann Arbor IT companies to add nearly 1,000 jobs in 10 years

The new economy isn’t just growing in Ann Arbor, it’s flourishing.

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After a series of expansion announcements this year, Ann Arbor's information technology sector has reasserted its role as the region's top job growth engine.

Five IT companies with existing local offices and one outside firm this year have revealed plans to add nearly 1,000 jobs over the next few years. Together, that would equal almost double the number of employees that Google has today at its AdWords headquarters in Ann Arbor.

"It's probably the strongest of the technology sectors in Ann Arbor, and sometimes we lose sight of that," said Michael Finney, CEO of Ann Arbor SPARK, Washtenaw County's economic development organization.

Read the rest of the story here, how Toyota just opened its new technical center near Ann Arbor here and how about a dozen local companies are in line for a number of Dept. of Defense contracts here.
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