ROYAL OAK - Learn about WAN Optimization/Network Computing during Intelligent Connections' September Lunch & Learn Seminars scheduled for Sterling Heights, Royal Oak, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids and Toledo, Ohio. At these seminars, learn how WAN optimization can: Increase user productivity by faster delivery of applications and data to remote users. Save operational expenditure by reducing
LANSING ? A fifth angel investing group has formed in Michigan, this one focused on commercializing technology developed at Michigan State University and by other entrepreneurs in the tri-county area surrounding the state capital. Capital Community Angels quietly launched early in 2007 and closed its first equity investment deal in late July. CCA invested $250,000
ANN ARBOR - The Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest will be rolling out its fall competition shortly. So MITechNews.Com will provide this primer for entrepreneurs on what the program is all about. GLEQ is a year-round educational program offering classes, training, coaching and mentoring to help entrepreneurs start, develop or accelerate a high-growth business. GLEQ participants
GRAND RAPIDS ? The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center, which provides ongoing training for growing and starting businesses, is offering 13 separate training programs, from Grand Rapids to Saginaw to Kalamazoo, during the final weeks of August. Professionals or current small business owners with pertinent expertise teach these trainings. Descriptions of the sessions
ANN ARBOR - EDF Ventures has completed a $12 million venture financing round in VoEx, a leading global IP communications innovator located in Grand Rapids. VoEx serves as a VoIP interconnect, enabling different VoIP networks to be interconnected. This minimizes TDM traffic for calls between VoIP networks as well as dial-out and dial-in calls, while
GRAND RAPIDS - Jody Vanderwel, president of Grand Angels, talks about what her private equity finance group in West Michigan has invested in so far, and what they're looking at investing in now. Grand Angels is one of five angel groups in Michigan that fund promising Michigan entrepreneurs, particularly in life sciences and high technology.
GRAND RAPIDS - The new Van Andel Institute Graduate School will kick off the inaugural school year with a ceremonial gathering of scholars on Aug. 20 that honors students and faculty and signals the beginning of the academic year. The ceremony will introduce faculty and the school?s pioneering students, and include remarks by VAI CEO
SOUTHFIELD - Fifteen-year-old Grayson Rosenberger, a freshman at Franklin Road Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, will be receiving the prestigious 2007 da Vinci Award for his application of a life-like surface for prosthetic legs. The idea also won the first place $10,000 prize in the Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventors. The da Vinci Awards, honors
KALAMAZOO ? GLIMASouthwest will host a Tech 5:01 September 5 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Fieldstone Grill in Portage. Come join the technology group for food, drink and networking with Southwest Michigan technology people and companies. Information on GLIMA?s Shedding New Light on IT Security Expo on October 4 will be available. GLIMASouthwest
BIG RAPIDS - Verizon Wireless has expanded the national rollout of its high-speed wireless network to Big Rapids, including the downtown area, which includes Ferris State University campus, part of a nearly $1 billion Verizon investment in Michigan. The expansion also covers US Route 131 between Paris and Sand Lake as well as the towns