FRAMINGHAM - The home office market will add nearly 2 million home-based businesses and more than 3 million corporate home office households between 2011 and 2015, a new report shows. According to a recent International Data Corporation (IDC) forecast, as the home office household landscape continues to change, so too does the type of technologies
NEW YORK - In a blockbuster mobile deal, AT&T announced Sunday it had agreed to acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. The acquisition will bolster AT&T's dominance with the addition of more than 33 million subscribers to its 95.5 million customer user base, giving it a new total of more than 129
LANSING - The Michigan Education Association has asked its local members to vote on giving the MEA authority to initiate "crisis activities" including "job actions" that might mean a work stoppage. MEA spokesperson Doug Pratt said Thursday that the move comes in response to actions in the Legislature. "MEA will not stand silent while Michigan's
LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan kicked off an online campaign to educate small business owners on Gov. Snyder's efforts to repeal the Michigan Business Tax and rally support for the proposal. A website ? SBAM.Org/MBT-RIP - gives small business owners a chance to sign an online petition, donate to the repeal effort,
GRAND RAPIDS - In a recently-published study mapping the structure and function of the so-called orphan nuclear receptor TR4, Van Andel Research Institute investigators suggest that Vitamin A may play a more direct role than was previously known in certain physiological functions including sperm cell formation and the development of the central nervous system. Scientists
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems announced live demonstrations of Plex Online's comprehensive ERP solution for Food and Beverage Processors on April 14 from 10 -11 a.m. and for Precision Metalformers on April 28 from 2 - 3 p.m. These industry-specific events offer an opportunity to explore Plex Online as they would use it in their
LANSING - An agreement to wait until September 1 for the repeal of the state's item-pricing requirement to take effect ensured enough votes to resolve a mini-standoff on the bill in the Senate and send it to Governor Rick Snyder. Twice, the Senate had fallen one vote short of the two-thirds majority necessary to give
DETROIT ? A study by the Kauffman Foundation says the Business Accelerator Network for Southeast Michigan has created more than 1,000 jobs and invested about $18 million in hundreds of start-ups, while leveraging more than $101.2 million in additional outside financing. The Network consists of Ann Arbor SPARK, Automation Alley, Macomb-OU INCubator and Wayne State?s
ANN ARBOR - A Michigan Economic Growth Authority Tax Credit of $731,244 will spur Lakeside Software, which develops systems management and virtualization software, to expand to Ann Arbor and also expand its existing operations in Bloomfield Hills. Lakeside Software plans to invest $6.1 million to expand existing operations in Bloomfield Hills, as well as locate
ANN ARBOR - Michael Finney, the new head of the Michigan Economic Development Corp., will participate in a panel discussion March 30 hosted by the Center for Automotive Research will explore the resurgence of the auto industry. Finney will join the panel: ?Strategies to Spur Job Retention and Growth.? Other panel members include Curt Magleby,