DETROIT - The Detroit Chapter of TiE, in its continuing quest for Talent, Ideas and Enterprises, announced Wednesday the TiEQuest 2011 Business Venture Competition. The submission deadline for executive summaries is June 12. TiEQuest is an initiative by the Global TiE organization to create and present a comprehensive framework for Business Venture Competitions integrated with
LANSING - "Hung," the HBO television series, will continue to shoot in suburban Detroit and has been awarded a $1.06 million grant from the state under its revised film incentive program, the Film Office announced Tuesday. The grant was based on $2.65 million in projected in-state expenditures. "Over the past three years, we have developed
GRAND RAPIDS ? A Grand Valley State University researcher issued a report Tuesday that contends the greater Grand Rapids Industrial economy has stabilized. Brian G. Long, director of Supply Management Research in the Seidman College of Business at Grand Valley State University, said survey results are based on data collected in the last two weeks
SAN FRANCSICO - Epsilon, which manages e-mail communications for TiVo, JP Morgan Chase, Capital One Financial, US Bank, the Kroger grocery chain, Best Buy, RedRoof Inn and other merchants, said this week that it suffered a security breach that revealed data on some of its clients' customers. Epsilon, which says it sends 40 billion e-mails
SAN FRANCISCO - AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has a message for those who believe his company's acquisition of T-Mobile USA will steam-roll competition in the mobile marketplace. "This industry is anything but a duopoly," Stephenson said at a conference hosted by the Council On Foreign Relations, according to The Wall Street Journal. "The industry is
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder said the state has made great progress in his first three months, pointing to the legislation he had signed, which includes some dramatically controversial bills, and saying the state was successfully undertaking the process of reinventing itself. But at a press conference he held with the two legislative Republican leaders
ANN ARBOR ? Ann Arbor SPARK has named a Silicon Valley economic developer as its new president and CEO replacing Michael Finney who left that post in December to head up the Michigan Economic Development Corp. Paul Krutko will join Ann Arbor SPARK on April 18 and will oversee the organization's continued efforts to expand
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue wrote a newspaper column published Tuesday that calls for the construction of a new bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, whether the government-run proposal or the one from the owners of the Ambassador Bridge. Donohue's column, published in the Washington Examiner, is a different stance
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder's proposed use of $1 billion from the School Aid Fund to pay for state aid to community colleges and a big chunk of funding for public universities came under withering criticism Monday as Democrats called for a constitutional amendment to block such efforts in the future. Senate Minority Leader Gretchen
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder on Monday signed a measure that would extend current unemployment benefits up to 99 weeks, but cut the number of weeks a worker would eligible for state benefits starting in 2012. Snyder signed HB 4408 on Monday, saying in a press release that the bill would provide a lifeline of