ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor SPARK is hosting a business plan competition in conjunction with the Eastside Innovation Campus that will showcase five innovation-based entrepreneurs; the competition winner, as judged by a panel of noted funding and business experts, will win prizes to support their venture, including a one year incubator lease at SPARK East
WASHINGTON ? Warning that "tracking and targeting of consumers online have reached alarming levels," a coalition of 11 consumer and privacy advocacy organizations sent a letter to Congress outlining the protections any online privacy legislation must include. The coalition said that industry self-regulation has not provided meaningful consumer protection and stressed that legislation is needed.
TROY - Corp! magazine and MITechNews.Com acknowledged cutting-edge companies with headquarters or a strong presence in the state at its inaugural Business of Science and Technology Awards breakfast on April 20. Fifty-seven organizations ? ranging from software companies to research and development (R&D) firms, consultants and schools ? were honored for their contributions in Michigan.
LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Michigan Economic Development Corporation CEO Greg Main Wednesday announced two new Centers of Energy Excellence designations for wind manufacturing companies Energetx Composites and Astraeus Wind Energy. The COEE program brings companies, academic institutions, national labs and the state together to support cutting-edge research and development and pioneer new energy
MIDLAND ? The second annual heading for the Big Leagues celebrates entrepreneurship in the mid-Michigan region on May 27 and gives attendees an opportunity to network and see firsthand some of the innovative products and services being developed in the region. Once again, the concourse at Dow Diamond will be transformed to a technology and
LANSING - Members of the Michigan Legislature are set to iron out their differences on a retirement plan for more than 50,000 public school employees after the House voted Tuesday on a drastically different version of the legislation than what the Senate approved. In an effort to meet a self-imposed deadline of completing SB 1227
LANSING - Legislation to ban text messaging while driving remains hung up in the Legislature over a dispute on how to use the fees generated from the new ticket. The Senate stripped out House language Tuesday in SB 468 that would have earmarked new fines from the texting ban into the general fund to offset
LANSING - Future court actions are not ruled out, but it appeared on Monday the quickest venue for action to prevent Asian carp from moving into the Great Lakes would be Congress after the U.S. Supreme Court again refused to take up motions to close locks connecting the lakes to the Mississippi River. The Carp
LANSING - A preliminary look at the potential fiscal impact on the state from the newly enacted national health care law suggests the state could see some early savings as the federal government picks up expanded Medicaid match rates, the Senate Fiscal Agency said, but with time those savings could vanish. The study cautiously pointed
LANSING - The state's main economic development program, already under heavy criticism, failed to adequately determine whether businesses receiving tax breaks to locate or stay in Michigan delivered on the wages and jobs promised, according to an audit released Monday. Auditors for the legislative auditor general found that in 15 of the 27 audits of