DETROIT - A net 14 percent of chief information officers in the Detroit area expect to hire information technology professionals in the fourth quarter of 2007, a 3 percent increase from the third quarter, the Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report contends. The local results reflect a two-quarter rolling average based on
SOUTHFIELD - Students and recent graduates of Lawrence Technological University are rushing to complete construction on their solar-powered, energy-positive house in time for the Solar Decathlon competition on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in October. They have designed and built a house with nearly 700 square feet of living space that will use the
YPSILANTI ? OnlyMyEmail has introduced a Web-accessed email solution, OME-kids.com, which will offer children protection from internet predators who try to reach kids through their email. OnlyMyEmail will not accept payments from direct marketers to bypass its filters. What?s more, the OME-Kids solution protects children from e-marketers that conduct direct-marketing campaigns aimed at kids. OME-kids.com
PONTIAC ? Venture Forward, an intensive ten-week program that uses the FastTrac GrowthVenture, will be offered by the Michigan Small Business & Technology Center this October. Venture Forward uses FastTrac GrowthVenture learning system along with MI-SBTDC counseling and research support to help entrepreneurs evaluate their business issues and opportunities, while developing an action plan for
GRAND RAPIDS ? Who's promoting Grand Rapids? Come to Alticor Auditorium Sept. 19 and hear the buzz about GR, part of the fall conference series offered by GLIMAWest. Lately everyone is talking about GR, and for all the right reasons. Not only have we been featured in the New York Times, but a writer from
REDMOND - Microsoft's next release of Office for Mac, due in January, will include business features that PC users have taken for granted for years. That will include the ability to set up out-of-office messages, according to a preview in Microsoft's Office for Mac team blog reported by CNET News.Com. "With Entourage 2008, you now
ANN ARBOR ? MichBio said it will provide tours of mid Michigan life sciences companies for attendees at its annual Expo Oct. 16-17 in Lansing. Guided tours will be available to Expo attendees from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Day 1 of the Expo, October 16. Attendees must register for the Expo at the
LANSING ? With less than three weeks before the start of Michigan's fiscal year, state officials are scrambling on a number of fronts to both resolve the budget and prevent a shutdown of the government on October 1. Sources indicate there is a chance that a move to put a sales tax increase before the
LANSING - The only way to implement the recommendations of Michigan?s 21st Century Energy Plan is to re-regulate the state's electric market, Public Sector Consultants said in a report to be presented Wednesday to the House Energy and Technology Committee. For the plan, developed by former Public Service Commission Chair Peter Lark, to work, all
GRAND RAPIDS - On Wednesday, regional investors, academicians, business and government leaders, and philanthropists will meet to have a conversation, hosted by Grand Angels, about how to address Michigan?s sagging economy. Creating a Statewide Culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship ? Leveraging Change for Michigan?s Economy will bring more than a hundred regional leaders to the