DETROIT ? The Michigan Economic Development Corp. has awarded Challenge Detroit a $230,000 grant to help fund programming initiatives for the national initiative focused on revitalizing the Detroit region by retaining and attracting innovative leaders who will bring their intellectual capital and talents to the City. ?The mission of the MEDC is to help businesses
STERLING HEIGHTS -The SBA, along with the Detroit Regional Chamber, and the Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center, will host a ?Meet the Lenders? event Oct. 23 at the Macomb Velocity Center. ?We?re pleased to collaborate with the Detroit Regional Chamber as well as our SBA funded partners to give entrepreneurs a chance to
TALLAHASSEE - Hackers have accessed the confidential information of nearly 300,000 students, employees, and faculty in a massive security breach at a Florida college, officials announced. The breach was first thought to have been isolated to employees at Northwest Florida State College but may involve student records from across the state, education officials said. More
LANSING - A new forecast published by the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics at the University of Michigan projects continued slow job growth in Michigan through 2014, by which time the state may have recouped just one-third of the jobs it lost during the decade-long recession. The forecast said that after job growth at a
GRAND RAPIDS - Davenport University announced it is developing two new degree programs for its College of Technology - a Master of Science in Technology Management and a Bachelor of Science in Digital Forensics. ?We are excited to be developing these new programs to help Davenport students get where the world is going in the
MARQUETTE -Verizon Wireless has chosen Marquette as its symbolic 400th 4G LTE market because it represents the growth of the nation's largest 4G LTE network beyond America's largest and medium-sized market. Verizon Wireless operates the nation's largest 4G LTE network. The company serves 94.2 million retail customers, including 88.8 million retail postpaid customers. Headquartered in
STAMFORD, Conn. - Worldwide PC shipments totaled 87.5 million units in the third quarter of 2012, a decline of 8.3 percent compared with the third quarter of 2011, according to preliminary results by Gartner. "A continuing slowdown in consumer PC shipments played a big part in the overall PC market decline," said Mikako Kitagawa, principal
GRAND RAPIDS - Van Andel Institute has hired two staff members to expand the organization?s capacity to attract philanthropic support for new programs in biomedical research and science education. Patrick Placzkowski joins the organization as Director of Development for Van Andel Research Institute, the cornerstone of West Michigan?s life science and biomedical research corridor. VARI
WASHINGTON DC - Michigan's tax climate has seen a substantial improvement in 2012, leaping to 7th from 49th in corporate rankings and to 12th from 18th overall, according to the just released Tax Foundation?s 2013 State Business Tax Climate Index. The Index represents the tax climate of each state as of July 1, 2012, the
DETROIT ? Registration is now open for the 2012 Michigan Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference scheduled for Oct. 26 at Wayne State University?s McGregor Memorial Conference Center. The conference showcases how green chemistry and engineering are contributing to revitalization in manufacturing by using less toxic materials in the design and production of goods. ?Michigan is