EAST LANSING - Enliven Software is piloting a new entrepreneurship internship for students and recent graduates by offering participants hands-on experience while they learn those qualities essential for a successful career in leadership. The program, Entrepreneurship Internship Program, will give interns the chance to work for Enliven and its sister companies, Artemis Solutions Group, GreenLite
?� Hygieia Wins $5000 In GLEQ Contest ANN ARBOR - Virtual Products, won third place in the Emerging Business Category of the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business-plan writing contest. Virtual Products has developed a very low cost, patent-pending plastic "Exergaming" ramp that allows full body interaction with any digital environment such as video games, computer
ANN ARBOR - Hygieia, which is developing a glucose meter for diabetics that works as n endocrinolgist-to-go, won first place in the Emerging Business Category of the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business-plan writing contest. In this GLEQ channel interview, co-founder Israel Hodish talks about how his technology allows doctors to modify a patient's treatment plan
ANN ARBOR - Meadowlark Builders and Architectural Resource is working with an Ann Arbor homeowner to create the nation's third LEED Platinum residential remodel - a unique home that features such CleanTech features as heavily insulated walls, energy efficient windows, special heating and cooling systems that together generate monthly energy bills of around $40. To
NEW YORK - IBM on Monday announced a broad update of its products and services aimed at building intelligent infrastructure systems and dealing with the massive amounts of data they would create. Such projects could include adding millions of sensors to the nation's power grid or digitizing every American's health records. IBM's revamp includes an
REDMOND, WA. - Microsoft on Monday made available an add-on to its Dynamics AX business applications that allows mid-size companies to collect and analyze their energy usage and translate that into the environmental impact. It's part of a broader effort around environmental sustainability at the company, headed by Robert Bernard, Microsoft's chief environmental strategist, who
LANSING - Michigan will now have two bodies looking at optimal siting for wind energy in the state. Governor Jennifer Granholm created and appointed Friday the Great Lakes Wind Council specifically to look at offshore locations for wind turbines. The new council, created under Executive Order 2009-1, has until September 1 to come up with
LANSING - A state lending program that was to have expired on Friday has been extended for another three months in part because of a sudden interest from state-chartered banks and credit unions - but the state has lent less than one-tenth the $150 million it available for loans. Some bankers have said the program
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - McAfee Inc. has announced the release of a new set of McAfee Data Protection solutions. "It is the coming together of all the products that [McAfee] has acquired in the data protection space over the last several years onto a common management platform and coming together as a unified solution for
REDMOND, Wa. - In an effort to ensure the smooth launch of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft has unveiled an Ecosystem Readiness Program to its partner community. Through the program, partners will have access to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 beta builds, along with updates to the Windows Driver, Logo