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Re:Can Technology Redefine Detroit? by rwhitman on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @11:53AM (#4444311)
I'd be surprised if Google doesn't have at least a data center in Detroit. Considering how much Google has been investing in urban real estate lately (NYC, Chicago) you'd think they'd want to snap up one of the big old factories and put a mini campus in there.
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Re:Can Technology Redefine Detroit? by freehunter on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @12:07PM (#4444369)
Google does have a campus close to Detroit (Ann Arbor). This is practically on campus for University of Michigan, which is where they do the scanning for Google Books. They employ ~300 people there right now.

http://www.google.com/about/locations/ann-arbor/

There is also a campus they call Google Detroit (it's actually in the suburb of Birmingham). I'm not sure what they do there.

http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/detroit/

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Re:Can Technology Redefine Detroit? by growdetroit on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @12:51PM (#4444614)
From my understanding (which may be a big outdated now), Birmingham's primary function was to service ad sales to the Detroit Autos.
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Re:Can Technology Redefine Detroit? by weirdkid on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @12:50PM (#4444613)
The Birmingham location is ad sales
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