DETROIT ? TechTown has received a $25,000 grant from the Community Foundation for Senior Engagement Programs, money that will be used to fund start up businesses for senior Americans as well as to hire mentors to help them make their dreams come true. TechTown Executive Director Randal Charlton discusses the program in this Newsmaker Interview.
LANSING - House Speaker Andy Dillon's call for a single health insurance pool for all government employees made headlines last July, but in the 12 months since then, questions about how much such a plan would save have overcome efforts to move the proposal forward. Besides the annual budget, there has been no single piece
DETROIT - On July 19, administrators from Wayne State University's Computing & Information Technology office and the Office of the Vice President for Research will be recognized at the Campus Technology 2010 conference hosted by Campus Technology magazine. Wayne State is one of 11 Campus Technology Innovators award winners, chosen from nearly 500 entries. Wayne
TRAVERSE CITY ? Plex Systems is trying to build its brand among auto suppliers and the journalists that cover them at the Center For Automotive Research's Management Briefing Seminars next month. The event typically draws thousands of auto executives from supplier companies hoping to rub elbows with their counterparts at the big automakers, such as
SAN FRANCISCO - General Electric and four venture-capital companies are putting up $200 million to award entrepreneurs for coming up with innovative ways to modernize the electricity grid. At an event at San Francisco, the companies launched the "GE Ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid," a competition designed to cultivate smart-grid technologies, CNET News.Com reported. The
MOUNTAIN VIEW - The stable version of Google Chrome received multiple security fixes earlier this month, including four rated as "high," while the developer's version adopted an interface tweak to create more room for extension icons. Google Chrome dev 6.0.453.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux consolidates the former page control menu into the customization menu
SAN FRANCISCO - So, which is more secure to use, the iPhone or the Android? Neither, according to security experts who say the two fastest-growing smartphone platforms are different but comparable. The main difference is that Apple must approve all apps distributed via the Apps Store, which is the only way to get apps on
DETROIT ? Jack Miner is the newest support leader for TechTown's SmartStart program bringing with him more than 20 years experience working with startups and Fortune 500 companies, most recently in Battle Creek. Miner also manages TechTown's partnership with Hebrew Free Loan, a private community organization that has pledged $300,000 in small business loans for
MANISTEE ? Huge wind turbines could pop up in Manistee farmlands in 2012, generating enough electricity to power 30,000 homes, while employing nearly 300 workers in a rural county hard hit by the recession. Duke Energy of Charlotte, North Carolina, has been quietly contacting farmers in Manistee and Benzie counties to see if they would
ANN ARBOR - Sometimes it's luck and sometimes it's timing ? and yet other times it's the sheer genius of a wacky idea. Join the New Enterprise Forum July 15 to hear from a panel of creative, inventive entrepreneurs who have discovered and capitalized upon unusual or untapped market needs to build successful businesses. Panelists