LANSING - Liquid Web's Incubator Program has announced an international partnership with Next Step, an Australian search engine. Next Place is an Australian startup with real estate as its primary target in the vertical search space. With a sizeable database and intensive geo-spatial search queries with Draw My Search, finding assistance that could also deliver
LANSING - The Department of Treasury has issued a bulletin defining "active solicitation" of business that includes operating a website or sending emails to entice purchasers from Michigan to qualify to pay the Michigan Corporate Income Tax. Those solicitations, which can include advertising and mailing coupons and catalogs, can count as establishing nexus within the
MOUNT CLEMENS - The Macomb County Department of Planning and Economic Development has been awarded a $1 million grant by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to create a Revolving Loan Fund to make low-interest loans available to help finance redevelopment projects for eligible Brownfield sites in the county, the only county in the state to
TROY - MCWT is sponsoring an informal social networking event at Bahama Breeze in Troy on June 19 just days before the Summer Solstice. It?s March Connect Net Social Mixer was so successful the group scheduled this one to usher in summer. MCWT is providing this event free to members, including complementary light appetizers. Non-members
LANSING - The Michigan Strategic Fund and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation have issued a Request for Proposals to fulfill consumer requests for travel information, including data entry services related to those requests. ?With the Pure Michigan Official State Travel Guide being extended to three publications annually and visitor interest in Michigan growing, it is
GRAND RAPIDS ? The 2013 Teen Entrepreneur Summer Academy will be giving away $1000 in cash prizes on June 21 to some of the 39 high school students who spend a week developing a new business concept addressing problems that face downtown Grand Rapids. Ten student teams will pitch their solution in front of community
WASHINGTON DC - The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post. The program, code-named PRISM,
HOLLAND - A willingness to work with a military contractor on product development and to add in-house capabilities helped a Holland-based medical device manufacturer secure a three-year deal to supply bandages to the U.S. Army. KI Medical Device Manufacturing L3C is an atypical manufacturing company in West Michigan. For one, the company, founded in 2009,
KALAMAZOO - Smartphones are everywhere these days and only becoming more popular. LKF Marketing Inc. saw the explosion of mobile communication devices coming two years ago and began updating its proprietary content management system to develop websites that would display properly on smartphones and tablet computers. ?We put a year into developing a responsive mechanism
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation Friday announced two Requests for Proposals aimed at boosting food entrepreneurship in Michigan and fostering a sense of place in Michigan communities. ?Farmers markets and food trucks improve our downtowns and bring vitality and economic growth to our communities,? said MEDC President and CEO Michael A. Finney. ?These