LANSING - Crowded into three levels of the Capitol rotunda, transportation funding advocates on Tuesday announced that over the last three months, they have collected 5,000 signatures on a petition that urges lawmakers to increase taxes in order to restore road, bridge and public transportation funding. Truck drivers, local and state lawmakers and hundreds of
ANN ARBOR - Emerging Company and New Business Idea participants are preparing their documents for this Friday's deadline for spring 2010 edition of the Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest business-plan competition. Entrepreneurs vying for the $100,000 SmartZone Award submitted their business plans on April 23.Winners in all categories will be announced at the GLEQ Awards Event
DETROIT ? Asterand, which provides human tissue and human tissue-based services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies engaged in drug discovery, Tuesday announced that its subsidiary BioSeek, a predictive human biology to drug discovery company, has signed a two-year collaboration agreement with Eisai Co., a research-based human health care company headquartered in Japan. Under the agreement,
LANSING ? Gov. Jennifer Granholm's signing of bills Friday banning text messaging while driving on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" might not have been as wild as when Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah's couch, but it certainly qualified as one of the more unconventional bill signing ceremonies in recent memory. The theme of Winfrey's Friday episode
SOUTHFIELD - Sandeep Chandra, Research Analyst at Ford Motor Company, will demonstrate how to do sidejacking - the most dangerous of all cyber attacks that target personal information, credentials, bank accounts and social networking accounts ? at the May 20 meeting of Motor City ISSA. Victims of these Man-In-The-Middle attacks are completely oblivious to these
ANN ARBOR - ForeSee Results has hired Walter Rothschild ? formerly head of marketing and product strategy at R.L. Polk - as Chief Marketing Officer, a new position created to help the company advance strategically in 2010 and beyond. The addition of Rothschild strengthens and expands ForeSee Results' senior management and leadership team as the
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems, provider of the No. 1 rated ERP software for manufacturers, announced it will host the annual PowerPlex User Conference May 17?19 at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn. The theme of PowerPlex 2010, Accelerating out of the Downturn, focuses on capitalizing on new growth opportunities and improving efficiencies and profit margins.
BUCHANAN - The principals of Precept Partners, an Internet technology consultancy, announced the launch of its new NetNitroX package of integrated analysis, design and marketing services. "Our NetNitroX solution has been distilled from everything we've learned generating over a hundred million dollars of revenue online," said Managing Partner Stephen Antisdel. "It's a proprietary combination of
ANN ARBOR ? Managed Data Center Operator Online Tech has introduced its third generation hosting backup service - OTBackup ? now available to all of Online Tech's managed server, colocation, and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) clients. OTBackup provides continuous data backup between Online Tech's two Michigan data centers in Ann Arbor and Flint. The data centers are
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor SPARK is hosting a business plan competition in conjunction with the Eastside Innovation Campus that will showcase five innovation-based entrepreneurs; the competition winner, as judged by a panel of noted funding and business experts, will win prizes to support their venture, including a one year incubator lease at SPARK East