WIXOM - For every $1 the state invested in nonprofit arts and cultural groups in 2009, those organizations pumped $51 back into Michigan's economy through spending on rent, programs, travel and salaries, a new report says. "Creative State Michigan," a new report from advocacy group Art Serve Michigan, reinforces what ArtServe has known all along,
GRAND RAPIDS - The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center announced the schedule for financial tools workshops in metro Detroit in 2012 through June. ?5 Keys to Achieving Fiscal Fitness,? a workshop to help the non-financial manager business owner achieve Fiscal Fitness is a state-wide training program designed to strengthen financial literacy and improve
LOUISVILLE, Ky. ? Crime fiction author John Locke was the first independently published author to sell more than one million Kindle eBooks using Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform. Now he's the first author to sign a book distribution deal with Simon & Schuster to get his next book into book stores nationwide. Locke, a commercial
BATH - Join the Avaya Users Group on Feb. 1 for a day full of Advanced Application Knowledge Transfer and information update with the most experienced resources in the Midwest. The group will be exploring applications and solutions to help your organization grow and become more efficient in communications. Giveaway Register today for a chance
ANN ARBOR - Grand River and Zeon Solutions have merged to form one e-Commerce and Web site development company. Terms were not announced. Zeon Solutions and The Grand River brands will maintain their unique identities in the marketplace. Both are fast-growing companies: Zeon is an Inc. 500 firm with 250 employees and a compound annual
GRAND RAPIDS - Join aimWest January 25 for a discussion with Fred and Christina Keller, the dynamic father-daughter team leading the success of Cascade Engineering. Fred Keller founded Cascade Engineering in 1973 and raised three daughters along the way. Christina, the youngest of the daughters and a new mother, leads a business unit within the
WASHINGTON DC- Upper Peninsula Michigan entrepreneur David Ollila Wednesday was among more than a dozen business leaders who were invited to participate in and share their ideas at a forum hosted by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. The forum, called ?Insourcing American Jobs,? brought together business owners who shifted work back to
ANN ARBOR - Fritz Seyferth, a known expert in leadership and executive coaching and founder of The Foundation of WinningO program taught to companies around the nation, has been added to the speakers for the ACE 12 January 31 at Skyline High School. A former Michigan football player and staff member under coach Bo Schembechler,
BIRMINGHAM ? Blaze Medical Devices received an investment of $250,000 at the end of 2011 from a group of angel investors that included Great Lakes Angels. Great Lakes Angels Chairman David Weaver declined to specify how much GLA invested in his company. Weaver is CEO of Blaze Medical Devices, which is developing a line of
DETROIT - The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation's website design competition drew 51 teams of high school students to vie for $2,775 in cash prizes. For its sixth year running, women from metro Detroit high schools learned creative development and technology principles during the two-month-long program. It is one of the initiatives benefiting