GRAND RAPIDS - AimWest, a technology networking group, is hosting a discussion Oct. 21 on how West Michigan companies are using technology to continue to grow their businesses. Panelists include: David Dorner started his career working at Smiths Aerospace as an embedded software and digital design engineer for seven years. David then founded DornerWorks in
GRAND RAPIDS - The 2009 annual Healthcare Information Management Systems Society Midwest conference will be held at Amway Grand Plaza November 2 - 3 to focus on the role and responsibility of healthcare IT within the federal stimulus reform. Industry leaders will discuss the incorporation of healthcare IT provisions in the legislation and the impact
LANSING - Already nearly halfway through a one-month continuation budget, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop will meet Wednesday in an effort to resolve a stalemate on six critical budget bills. The six bills have passed both houses of the Legislature in identical form and ordinarily would have been sent to Granholm,
ANN ARBOR - The office of Information and Infrastructure Assurance at the University of Michigan will host six nationally-known experts in the field of information technology security on October 20 at SUMIT 09. "Our symposium brings leading IT security experts annually to Ann Arbor," said Paul Howell, chief IT security officer at the University of
LANSING - Encouraged by the Senate's action to eliminate the surcharge on the Michigan Business Tax, some of the largest business groups in the state called on the House to follow the Senate and approve the three-year phase-out. And responding to criticism that the action by the Senate in SB 838 helped businesses at the
DETROIT - The E2 Detroit 2009 conference for entrepreneurs on Oct. 15 at Wayne State University has lowered the general admission price from $150 to $90 to encourage more entrepreneurs to hear this program's power packaged lineup of speakers that include former Pittsburgh Mayor Thomas Murphy and Michigan native, life-long entrepreneur Rick Inatome. Murphy will
LANSING - State and local government in Michigan rely on property taxes more than other states to fund operations, a study released by the national organization the Tax Foundation said. In fact, Michigan is the sixth most reliant state on property taxes in the nation. In contrast, the state relies less heavily on income, general
DETROIT - Last week, the cover of Time Magazine captured a snapshot of a ruined city. It could have been Stalingrad in the 1940s when young untrained Russian youths were thrown into desperate battle with one rifle shared between two men, to save a city that was already reduced to rubble. In fact last week's
ANN ARBOR ? Michigan businessman Rick Snyder, one of several Republican candidates running for Michigan Governor, says he is using his high-tech background to "leverage technology better than President Obama did in the 2008 elections." Snyder, who is running in the Republican primary in August 2010, has created Rick?s Innovation Network ? an open source
WASHINGTON - The Senate Finance Committee Tuesday approved its health-overhaul measure, pushing a revamp of the U.S.'s health-care system closer to reality than it has been in decades. The vote was 14-9, with Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine the only Republican to join the 13 Democrats on the panel. Snowe indicated earlier in the day
