DETROIT - MetroPCS Communications has launched Metro411 Premium, an unlimited voice activated directory assistance product. MetroPCS is one of the first wireless service providers to offer consumers this service for no additional charge. Metro411 Premium offers MetroPCS customers fast, easy directory assistance with access to business and residential listings, maps, directions and local information. While
PLEASANT RIDGE ? Interactive promotions company ePrize said on Monday that it has launched 678 campaigns in the first half of 2007, a 62.9-percent increase over the same period in 2006, and generated $22.98 million, or 32 percent more than the $17.38 million in the first half of 2006. What?s more, during the first half
MT. PLEASANT - The Mt. Pleasant SmartZone/Center for Applied Research & Technology at Central Michigan University has entered into an agreement making the MidMichigan Innovation Center a satellite location of its Mt. Pleasant Technology Hub. This partnership will leverage the strengths of both organizations to benefit area entrepreneurs and small businesses by providing extensive support
SAGINAW - Verizon Wireless continues the Michigan roll out of its high-speed wireless network by adding Saginaw, Bay City and Midland on Tuesday. The expansion provides continuous coverage of the company's wireless broadband network along Interstate 75 from Midland south to Monroe. In the past few months, Verizon has added the Grand Rapids, Big Rapids
ANN ARBOR - EDF Ventures has completed a $12 million venture financing round in VoEx, a leading global IP communications innovator located in Grand Rapids. VoEx serves as a VoIP interconnect, enabling different VoIP networks to be interconnected. This minimizes TDM traffic for calls between VoIP networks as well as dial-out and dial-in calls, while
LANSING ? A fifth angel investing group has formed in Michigan, this one focused on commercializing technology developed at Michigan State University and by other entrepreneurs in the tri-county area surrounding the state capital. Capital Community Angels quietly launched early in 2007 and closed its first equity investment deal in late July. CCA invested $250,000
ANN ARBOR - The Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest will be rolling out its fall competition shortly. So MITechNews.Com will provide this primer for entrepreneurs on what the program is all about. GLEQ is a year-round educational program offering classes, training, coaching and mentoring to help entrepreneurs start, develop or accelerate a high-growth business. GLEQ participants
GRAND RAPIDS ? The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center, which provides ongoing training for growing and starting businesses, is offering 13 separate training programs, from Grand Rapids to Saginaw to Kalamazoo, during the final weeks of August. Professionals or current small business owners with pertinent expertise teach these trainings. Descriptions of the sessions
PLEASANT RIDGE ? Interactive promotions company ePrize on Thursday announced the hiring of Jeffrey Ershler as Vice President, Mousetrap, and Joe Keller, Vice President, Technology Operations. In this new role, Ershler is responsible for aligning the company?s business performance with company culture, driving a culture of improvement and promoting scalable growth for the company. As
SOUTHFIELD - Fifteen-year-old Grayson Rosenberger, a freshman at Franklin Road Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, will be receiving the prestigious 2007 da Vinci Award for his application of a life-like surface for prosthetic legs. The idea also won the first place $10,000 prize in the Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventors. The da Vinci Awards, honors