MIDLAND - The BlueWater Angels are hosting a Pitch Night on February 18 at the Bay City Country Club. Pitch Night consists of 20-minute pitches (Q&A inclusive) by Michigan entrepreneurs / early stage companies (2-4) who are interested in getting in front of private investors to secure their next step to growth capital. The program
GRAND RAPIDS - Dematic has introduced an order fulfillment system for piece picking applications it calls the Dematic Put Wall System. The fulfillment system serves as an order consolidation and packing method that brings high productivity, order accuracy, speed and efficiency to the order fulfillment process. The Dematic Put Wall System is scalable and modular,
ANN ARBOR - ArborMetrix Inc., a provider of healthcare analytics, reported Monday it had boosted its Series B financing round by $1.3 million to allow Renaissance Venture Capital Fund of Ann Arbor and the Detroit Innovate Fund to participate. The earlier round of Series B financing, announced in July, was led by Ann Arbor-based RPM
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University reported it has topped the $100 million mark in its capital campaign, and now construction is scheduled to begin in the fall on the first phase of the STEM-focused A. Alfred Taubman Engineering, Life Sciences and Architecture Complex. The 125,000-square-foot project is the top goal of the capital campaign and
LANSING - The Michigan Manufacturers Association will holding 12 events across Michigan this spring to help Michigan business owners understand how human resource issues are impacting their bottom line. ?This power-packed hour will help Michigan business owners understand how human resource issues, including recent and upcoming legislation, are impacting their business,? said Delaney McKinley, MMA
LANSING - Michigan voters give Governor Rick Snyder highly negative marks for his record on K-12 education, according to a poll commissioned by Gongwer News Service. The survey asked voters to rate the job Snyder has done handling K-12 education and asked them whether they would "give him a positive rating of excellent or pretty
LANSING - Legislation that expands on Governor Rick Snyder's proposed property tax credit by essentially restoring the credit to where it stood before the 2011 tax changes was reported unanimously to the Senate floor Wednesday by the Finance Committee. In reporting SB 752 , some committee members said the issue raised by the proposal, which
LANSING - In discussing the amount of money proposed by Governor Rick Snyder to go to the Department of Transportation this fiscal year, Sen. John Pappageorge suggested upping the ante for what he and others expect will be a long season of filling potholes. Pappageorge (R-Troy) off-handedly proposed to Senate Appropriations Committee members on Wednesday
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. Rep. Gary Peters has introduced a measure designed to ensure the federal government funds the U.S. customs plaza at the proposed bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, and won praise from Governor Rick Snyder. Dubbed the Customs Plaza Construction Act of 2014, the measures calls for the federal government to construct
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder called on business leaders to hound members of Congress over a new customs plaza for New International Trade Crossing as he presented his administration's triumphs to a Detroit Regional Chamber luncheon last Friday. The address was what has become the governor's annual presentation to the Chamber after he presents his