ANN ARBOR ? Randal Charlton, Director of Wayne State University's TechTown, was named 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year by the New Enterprise Forum on Thursday night at an awards gala honoring some of the best start ups from a year ago. Other award winners include: Best New Product of 2007: GeneVivo. Sean Ainsworth, CEO, accepted
REDMOND, Wa. - List of applications affected by service pack installation include Trend Micro's Internet Security 2008 and the Times Reader. Microsoft has published a list of programs that will not work or that will suffer from reduced functionality after the installation of Vista Service Pack 1, CNET News.Com reported. The list of programs consists
MIDLAND ? Michigan has yet another angel investing group, the Blue Water Angels, which has more than $1 million to invest in promising Michigan start ups. Blue Water Angels works closely with the MidMichigan Innovation Center. At the Feb. 12 meeting, the groups first board was elected. Brent Case, executive director of the MidMichigan Innovation
LANSING - Michigan could not adopt rules creating workplace ergonomic standards if a bill passed by the Senate, SB843, approved on a 21-17 straight party line vote Wednesday, becomes law. The bill seeks to shortchange discussions that have been ongoing for some years on developing a proposal that would set standards on ergonomic furniture and
LANSING - The old ways of educating students to get them ready to be good worker bees in factories and offices is rapidly changing in Michigan, a new report shows. Some 82 percent of postsecondary institutions in the state are now offering courses to train the next generation of entrepreneurs. The Michigan Entrepreneurship Education Benchmarking
ANN ARBOR - Customer satisfaction with the eCommerce sector hit an all-time high, outperforming all other service industries. The results were contained in the American Customer Satisfaction Index, released Tuesday by the University of Michigan with e-commerce partner ForeSee Results. E-commerce in aggregate rises to a score of 81.6 on the ACSI's 100-point scale, a
KALAMAZOO ? The deadline to apply for the FastTrac TechVenture training program scheduled at Southwest Michigan First is Friday Feb. 22 ? the first time Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest has offered this intensive business-plan training program on the West side of the state. The program was launched last year, but only offered training in Ann
SHANGHAI, China - Shanghai General Motors has unveiled China's first mass-produced hybrid model in the mid- to high-class segment, a green friendly vehicle that will cut fuel consumption more than 15 percent. The LaCross Eco-Hybrid, which is expected to hit the market in July, will reduce gas consumption from 9.8 liters to 8.3 liters for
SOUTHFIELD - If you are looking for an engineering or technology job, you won?t want to miss the Engineering Society of Detroit?s 2008 Engineering & Technology Job Fair Feb. 19 presented by the ESD Young Engineers Council and the ESD Job Bank. The job fair will showcase some of Michigan?s largest engineering, technology, and management
ADA ? Quixtar.Com on Friday finally released more details for its fiscal 2007 sales - $1.072 billion, down from $1.12 billion in fiscal 2006. The Alticor eCommerce web site cracked the billion-dollar sales mark for the fifth year in a row. No net income figures were reported. Results were affected minimally by actions the company