GRAND RAPIDS – The Grand Rapids Chamber has refreshed its Business Services offerings, providing members tools to develop new business relationships, expand the customer base and connect with peers. The Chamber listened to member requests for more accessible and rewarding business services and tailored the 2018 program offerings to meet those needs. “We have developed
LANSING - Michigan’s individual income tax filing season officially has begun and an army of hackers are waiting to steal your identity and your refund, warns the Michigan Treasury Department. In an effort to protect Michigan taxpayers, the state Treasury Department continues to implement security measures to stop tax-related identity theft. As a result, some
GRANDVILLE - Managed Service Provider has named two long-time employees Vice Presidents to Business Development and Sales. Ken Zimmer, a Trivalent employee since 2000, has been named Vice President of Business Development. “Ken has been instrumental in helping Trivalent develop client relationships in West Michigan as our Sales Director, and this promotion allows him to
KALAMAZOO – Educators from Southwest Michigan were recognized last week with Catalyst Education Awards during Catalyst University, a daylong leadership event hosted by the regional economic development organization Southwest Michigan First at Wings Event Center in Kalamazoo. The Catalyst Education Awards received applications from teachers, principals and entire schools from across Southwest Michigan, competing in
ANN ARBOR - Global surface temperatures surged by a record amount from 2014 to 2016, boosting the total amount of warming since the start of the last century by more than 25 percent in just three years, according to a University of Arizona-led team that includes a University of Michigan scientist. "Our paper is the
ANN ARBOR - Waves lapping against the shoreline is always a pretty scene, but it may also be a way for toxins from harmful algal blooms to become airborne. Harmful algal blooms—blooms composed of blue-green algae—crop up throughout the Great Lakes region during hot summers. Algae reproduces, unchecked, producing toxins and sapping oxygen from water.
LANSING - Jeff Wesley has been named executive director of Red Cedar Ventures by the Michigan State University Foundation. He will focus on managing and growing the company’s venture investment portfolio of companies commercializing intellectual property created at MSU. An alumnus of Central Michigan University, Wesley served as an executive with Two Men and a
PLYMOUTH – Jeff Williams has joined the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center cybersecurity team as Program Manager. Williams leads The Center’s effort to ensure small to medium-sized manufacturers around Michigan are meeting the latest cybersecurity standards. A focus of Williams’ work includes the updated list of specifications that must be met by contractors who work with
NEW YORK – On the heels of the SEC’s roll out of two new forms that need to be filed digitally in 2018, EDGAR has developed a single source typeset that takes highly stylized typeset materials and convert them to EDGAR-compliant HTML. In an easy to use application, the process happens in minutes while maintaining
DETROIT - DTE Energy is ranked "Highest in Customer Satisfaction with Business Gas Service in the Midwest," according to J.D. Power's 2017 Gas Utility Business Customer Satisfaction Study released this week. The award is DTE's second for business customer satisfaction for 2017, as J.D. Power also recognized DTE as highest in customer satisfaction with business
