ANN ARBOR ? Venture Capital funds that invest in Michigan companies have another $60 million to work with thanks to the Renaissance Venture Capital fund, created by Business Leaders for Michigan. The second fund follows the $45 million RCF?s Renaissance I, said to be the first fund of funds when it was created in 2008.
LANSING - The new Secretary of State online services available at ExpressSOS.Com has topped one million transactions, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced Tuesday. ?There?s never a line online,? Johnson said. ?Many of our most popular transactions now can be done in minutes from the comfort of your own home or anywhere you have Internet
GRAND RAPIDS ? GRAPE will be presenting author Greg Smith on May 17 who will talk about Perspectives that Kill Performance. The topic comes from his new book ?Be Wise, Do Good, and Live Free: Random Advice for the Best Kind of Life.? The event will be held from 11:30 am to 1 p.m. at
ANN ARBOR ? TechTwilight ? connecting entrepreneurs and their families for an inspiring evening of activities, demonstrations and hands-on invention ? will be held May 19 at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum. ?By making technology fun and cool, and introducing families to local innovators, TechTwilight is designed to inspire kids to think about careers in
LANSING - A proposal to update Michigan's oldest, but most critical information technology systems, during the next five years was outlined Tuesday before the two legislative general government appropriations subcommittees. The proposal, made to the two subcommittees, by Chief Information Officer David Behen, accompanied an outline of the final report on Michigan's IT status and
LANSING - Users of prepaid wireless phones would have to pay a 911 surcharge when purchasing their phones and any future minutes under a bill reported unanimously Tuesday by the House Energy and Technology Committee. HB 5468 would require a surcharge of 1.92 percent per retail transaction to help fund 911 services in counties across
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a controversial Internet surveillance bill, rejecting increasingly vocal arguments from critics that it would do more to endanger Americans' privacy than aid cybersecurity. By a vote of 248 to 168, a bipartisan majority approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, which would
LANSING ? Michigan had two more signs Thursday the economy is improving with the release of Comerica Bank's Michigan Economic Activity Index and the Michigan Housing Index. Both indexes saw improvement in the state's economy, with the housing index, by the Michigan Association of Home Builders, showing builders saw improvements in the first quarter and
GRAND RAPIDS - When Mark Sellers bought Grand Rapids Brewing Co. last year, he thought he bought all of its assets. But it turns out he had a cybersquatter parked on his website who refused to relinquish the domain name until the squatter, a Grand Rapids Internet promotions company, was paid $2,000. Now Sellers owns
GRAND RAPIDS ? Rick DeVos, like his grandfather Richard DeVos, co-founder of Amway, is writing a new page in the entrepreneur rule book with the announcement Thursday of Start Garden, a $15 million investment fund ? the money is put up by the DeVos family ? that will invest $5,000 in two ideas each week,