ANN ARBOR - The Venture Michigan Fund II has made a $15 million investment in Venture Investors Early Stage Fund V, a venture capital fund that will invest in life science, cleantech and other high-tech companies in Michigan and the Midwest. Credit Suisse?s Customized Fund Investment Group manages VMF II, which plans to invest $120
LANSING - The U.S. Coast Guard will, 90 days from Friday, have an official standard for treating ballast water from oceangoing vessels entering particularly freshwater areas, but those ships entering Michigan waters would still have to have a state permit to exchange ballast water, at least for now. The Coast Guard had required exchanging ballast
ANN ARBOR - Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione is accepting applications for the 4th Annual Brinks Innovation Competition, to be held Sept. 12 at McCormick Place in Chicago in conjunction with Midwest Clean Tech 2012 and the International Manufacturing Technology Show. Applications for this year's competition are due by June 29. Applicants compete not only
DETROIT ? Wayne State University has launched a $25,000 student pre-seed investment fund backed by the Michigan Initiative for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. The Warrior Fund aims to support student start-ups and nurture novel technologies created at Wayne State. It will attract student entrepreneurs of varying backgrounds and empower them to build bold ideas and explore
GRANDVILLE - Trivalent Group will host ?Managing Your Business Not Your Technology and Gateway to the Cloud Executive,? a free workshop for Business owners and IT decision makers April 12 at Trivalent Group?s headquarters. Companies today want to automate and reduce their technology burden - do more with less or better yet more with what
GRANDVILLE - Trivalent Group was recognized as one of West Michigan's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For for the third consecutive year by the Michigan Business and Professional Association. MBPA awards this honor to companies throughout the region with the highest quality human resources initiatives. This year?s winners practice innovative strategies and represent
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems Inc., provider of Plex Online, Cloud ERP for manufacturers, announced that TRUSTe, the leading online privacy solutions provider, has certified the privacy practices of Plex Systems' website and services for compliance with the EU Safe Harbor and Trusted Cloud programs. The TRUSTe seal is a signal to consumers that a
PLEASANT RIDGE - ePrize has partnered with Penton Media to develop a game called Top Promotional Marketer ? a trivia contest to encourage readers to explore what the new site has to offer. The trivia contest invites readers to show off their marketing knowledge, with daily trivia questions based on content found on the site.
NEW YORK - Anonymous and other hacktivist groups propelled cybercrime to new heights in 2011, says a new report from Verizon, accounting for 58 percent of all data stolen. Verizon?s annual Data Breach Investigations Report, released Thursday, compiled data breach information from its customers and from law enforcement agencies in five countries. The hacktivists' success
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor SPARK has launched the first in a four video series designed to show how the development group helps businesses and talent to create economic opportunity in the region.>