ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor SPARK's hub for entrepreneurial services in Ypsilanti, SPARK East, has received $350,000 in funding from the Michigan Economic Development Corp. to support its continued work to help businesses startup and grow. SPARK also received support for expanded collaborative efforts with Eastern Michigan University that are centered on entrepreneurial development and
PLYMOUTH - When I first began integrating social media into my job responsibilities about seven years ago, I?a seasoned PR professional with nearly 20 years of experience under my belt?felt like a rookie. And in a way, I was a rookie. Learning how to effectively align public relations objectives with social media was a whole
LANSING - Valerie Brader, Governor Rick Snyder?s top aide on energy matters, will lead the new Michigan Agency for Energy that Snyder is creating to coordinate the state?s energy programs. Snyder, in issuing an executive order Wednesday setting up the new agency, announced Brader, currently a deputy legal counsel and senior policy advisor specializing in
LANSING - Legislation to create a STEM endorsed Michigan high school diploma will help encourage students to show greater interest in technical education and help produce more technically trained students to go into jobs the state has openings for, members of the Senate Education Committee were told Tuesday. The panel heard testimony of SB 169
LANSING - In a surprise move on Tuesday, Governor Rick Snyder announced that Nick Khouri, a vice president at DTE Energy and a former chief deputy treasurer, will become Michigan's new treasurer. Khouri succeeds current Treasurer Kevin Clinton who is stepping down from the post he took in 2013 to rejoin the private sector, somewhere
DETROIT ? In the episode of the Internet Advisor, hosts Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Shane Hamelin and Foster Braun look at the Apple Spring forward event and ask was it really about Apple Watch or even about the 12-inch MacBook Retina? Rick Broida, the Gadget Guy and Cheapskate blogger, joins us in studio to give
WASHIGTON DC - The US Senate Intelligence Committee approved a controversial cyberscurity bill last week that's designed to help companies and the federal government better defend against the growing threat of data breaches. Approved by a 14-1 vote, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) aims - by providing expanded legal liability protections to companies sharing
WASHINGTON DC - The hackers who breached JPMorgan Chase's cyberdefenses to gain access to 83 million records may soon be caught. Federal investigators are closing in on the hackers responsible for last summer's hack on the banking and investment firm and feel confident that indictments could be coming down soon, the New York Times reported
AUSTIN, Texas - Turns out nobody can remember their Yahoo passwords. Now the company wants to make it so no one has to. Yahoo on Sunday launched a new service called "on-demand" passwords, which lets someone log into a Yahoo account using a short password the company texts to their phone instead of having to
ANN ARBOR - When developing an idea into a medical business product, addressing the reimbursement strategy at the onset should not be ignored. Entrepreneurs need to create a clinical use scenario for their product so that they can best determine what patients will be using the product, what providers will be prescribing it and what