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
LANSING - Insurers can continue to consider customers' credit scores when setting rates for auto and homeowners insurance, a divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a much-anticipated decision. The ruling is a bitter setback for Gov. Jennifer Granholm, legislative Democrats and urban activists who have decried the practice, which they say unfairly leads to illogically
LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission has once again found no need for a proposed coal-fired electric plant, this time in Holland. The Holland Board of Public Works had proposed the 70 megawatt plant as part of its plan to meet expected demand growth. But the PSC staff found in its report that Holland
LANSING - While she said the Legislature should have remained in session to continue working on the final resolution of the 2010-11 budget, Gov. Jennifer Granholm told reporters Wednesday completion of the budget may rest on federal action on the Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentages issues. She also raised doubts that the Legislature would ever act
DETROIT ? In the July meeting of the Faith-based Business Forum, TechTown will explore how leaders can direct their teams to increase the profile of the organization's brand in order to generate new levels of public interest in the organization's mission and goals. Christa Chambers-Price, managing director of Chrysalis Interactive and CEO of Knowledgecrush, Inc.,
DETROIT ? What are some of the missing elements of your business plan that are holding you back from success? Come to TechTown's First Friday event and Eddie Flowers, founder of the Michigan Insurance Benefits Agency, will reveal "The 5 Missing Books of the Business Plan." To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>