LANSING - The Michigan House Tort Reform Committee will take up legislation to eliminate product liability immunity for prescription drugs, but not until committee members have a better understanding of the drug approval and tracking process. The committee received an overview of the drug approval process from U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials on Tuesday,
DETROIT - Check Point Software Technologies on Monday released an update to ZoneAlarm that comes with new features to protect against identity theft. ZoneAlarm 6.5, a family of Internet security products for consumers, also adds a new three-user version with promotional pricing, CNET News.Com reported. It's an apparent attempt to rival Microsoft, which allows customers
FARMINGTON HILLS ? Covansys Corp. completed the previously announced sale of its State and Local Government practice to Saber Corp for $33.8 million. Saber, a portfolio company of Accel-KKR, provides software and services to state and local governments. The agreement does not include Covansys' business process outsourcing business or any of the assets or contracts
PLEASANT RIDGE ? ePrize, which earlier this year landed a $32 million investment round, last week landed the No. 3 ranking in an annual rating contest of interactive agencies, maintaining its position from the year before. PROMO magazine lauded ePrize as an agency that ?plays the game very well? and one that ?owns the online
LANSING ? If you'd like to become an IT supplier to Michigan government, you're going to want to attend the 2006 Suppliers Forum June 28 at Schoolcraft College in Livonia. Topics on tap include: Strategic Direction of State's Information Technology Announcement of New IT Procurement Programs Doing business with Michigan Department of Information Technology &
AUBURN HILLS - Jeff Bell, Chrysler's vice president for product strategy, will be heading to Seattle next week. After a six-year stint in Auburn Hills, Bell is leaving the auto industry and signing on in a senior position with Microsoft. A well-placed source told TheCarConnection.Com that the decision to bolt had nothing to do with
HOLLAND - Almost no west Michigan companies plan to decrease their information technology staffs this summer and fall, while nearly a third report they plan to hire more IT professionals, a study released Monday contends. Paragon Recruiting has just released its latest Technology Employment Forecast for the second half of 2006 reported 29 percent of
SOUTHFIELD ? Telecom provider LDMI, now a Talk America Company, is looking for more than two dozen professionals, primarily sales people, to join its rapidly growing staff. Corporate Recruiter Terry Bean said the main focus for LDMI is sales people ? two each in Kalamazoo, Lansing and Grand Rapids, and the Flint-Saginaw-Bay City area, plus
ANN ARBOR ? Six teams competing in the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business plan competition will pitch their companies June 7 to a panel of judges from the Michigan Venture Capital Association for the chance to win $25,000. The selected teams will compete at 6 pm in the Anderson Room of the Michigan Union at
WASHINGTON DC - The federal government has already received enough applications to reach the next fiscal year's cap for the H-1B worker visas so beloved by technology companies. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Thursday that it determined on May 26 - scarcely two months after this year's application window began on April 1-