ANN ARBOR ? Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest New Business Category winner was Global Energy Innovations, a Flint-based Kettering University spin-out that commercializes technology to accelerate the transition to the hydrogen and fuel-cell economy. GEI won $2000. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
ROCHESTER HILLS - In this new year there are great hopes for a lifting economy. MichiganMall.com is being proactive with its efforts to help revitalize the business community. Its business model has been restructured and reinvented to reflect the current economic needs and is slashing its membership prices by 50 percent. Basic (Free) listing now
ANN ARBOR ? Current Motor Company, an Ann Arbor-based company that designs and manufactures electric motorcycles and scooters, won the top prize in the fall 2009 Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business-plan competition and a cash prize of $5000 in the Emerging Business category. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
DETROIT ? Entrepreneurs now have a better way to get their business message in front of potential investors at a new web site called PitchCorner.Com, which will award $5000 for the top pitches posted. Each video-elevator pitch posted on PitchCorner.Com by March 31, 2010, is automatically entered in the contest. The judging starts with PitchCorner.Com
WASHINGTON - The SBA's January Web Chat on Jan. 28 will highlight exporting basics and general SBA capital and credit programs for small business owners. Entering foreign markets can be a great way to boost sales and SBA offers loan programs to help small businesses expand or develop an export market. Business owners can find
LANSING ? Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest has a new business competition that will award a cash prize of $100,000 in June. At a packed Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship, hosted this year at Skyline High School in Ann Arbor rather than as year's past at Washtenaw Community College, Ned Staebler, a Michigan Economic Development Corp. vice
ANN ARBOR ? Current Motor Company, an Ann Arbor-based company that designs and manufactures electric motorcycles and scooters, won the top prize Thursday night in the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business-plan competition and a cash prize of $5000 in the Emerging Business category. The winner of the New Business Category was Global Energy Innovations, a
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft Corp. on Thursday released a patch to protect Internet Explorer users from attacks like "Operation Aurora" which targeted Google Inc.'s China business and caused widespread Internet panic. "This security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer," the world's largest software company said in a
LANSING - The number of companies nominated for 2010 Michigan 50 Companies to Watch, a part of the Michigan Celebrates Small Business Awards program, is at the highest level in the six year history of the program. ?We expected a good number of companies to answer the call for applications, and in the end we
WARREN, Mi. - The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center will infuse its ranks with new talent this June through a summer job hire program. TARDEC, the Nation's laboratory for advanced military automotive technology, is seeking high school, undergraduate and graduate-level college students interested in working on science and engineering programs like