ANN ARBOR - Daixo, a new business idea category participant in the spring 2008 Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business plan writing contest, delivers the July 2008 elevator pitch. Daixo is a web-based electronic medical record system to be custom-built initially for dermatologists who need to better manage their work flow. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com
TROY - Michigan's economy got you down? Well, MichiganMall.Com has an "upper" in the works. The Celebrate Michigan Expo offers you an opportunity to showcase your business and network with other successful Michigan businesses. This event is FREE and open to the entire business community. Hear from recognized speakers during our dinner program. Sponsorships are
SOUTHFIELD - The Michigan Council of Women In Technology initiated its 2008 career mentoring program on June 16th at Automation Alley in Troy where more than 26 mentor/mentee pairs will be served by this year?s program ? an increase from the 11 who participated in 2007. The program?s volunteer mentors are senior level IT leaders/executives,
LANSING - Energy companies have no authority to compel the Department of Environmental Quality to use their preferred permit requirements, the Court of Appeals said Wednesday in an unpublished decision that put Midland Cogeneration Venture power company on the losing end of a case it filed against the DEQ. Midland Cogeneration originally won its plea
MIDLAND - Rohm & Haas Co. has agreed to be bought by Dow Chemical Co. in an all-cash deal of $15.3 billion, signaling a consolidation wave in the chemicals industry may be afoot. And as part of the deal, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will buy $3 billion in convertible preferred securities, with the Kuwait Investment Authority
LANSING - With an anticipated fight over whether the controversial Reform Michigan Government Now! ballot proposal appears on the November ballot, both sides are preparing with some of the top names in political and legal consulting in the state. How a fight will proceed is still somewhat speculative because the formal process to determine if
LANSING - One hundred twelve proposals seeking $475.7 million were submitted to the Michigan Economic Development Corp. in the spring 2008 round of the 21st Century Jobs Fund. Trouble is, only $30 million is available from the state, making the selection process very rigorous. The biggest determining factor will be the ability of the applicant
ROCHESTER HILLS - Business process software developer Trubiquity, formerly Autoweb, last week acquired the assets and business operations of German-based Mosaic Software AG, a provider of commercial electronic data interchange (EDI) software products for customers in the retail, manufacturing and finance markets. Terms were not disclosed. Offering an EDI-trade portal (web and classic EDI) for
ANN ARBOR - U.S. companies that offshore customer service may save money on labor costs, but they also pay the price in terms of unhappy customers, University of Michigan researchers contend. "Firms are increasingly offshoring front-office functions such as customer service call centers and back-office functions such as information technology to manage their operations and
ANN ARBOR - ProQuest has closed on its agreement to acquire the Dialog business from ThomsonReuters and named industry veteran Suzanne BeDell as Dialog General Manager. BeDell will report to ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn. Financial terms were not disclosed. "I am thrilled about what this means both to ProQuest and Dialog and to the customers