DETROIT - Microsoft and Dynamic Computer will provide separate grants to The Children's Center worth more than $353,000 in cash, software and hardware to allow the Center to expand its service offerings, including building a new computer and resource lab. On March 24, The Children's Center will announce these two grants during a special news
SOUTHFIELD - The Michigan Council of Women In Technology Foundation is looking for a couple of good companies to sponsor a summer Tech Camp at Lawrence Technological University for girls in grades 4 - 7 after the previous year's sponsor unexpectedly withdrew its support. Last year?s camp, ran four days, was attended by forty girls
KALAMAZOO ? The Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest business plan writing contest will host an ?Entrepreneur?s Roundtable on Business Commercialization? March 21 from 6 ? 8pm at the M-TEC in Kalamazoo. Southwest Michigan First will co-sponsor the event to kick off a new collaboration with GLEQ. Mike Klein, partner at CompanyCrafters, will moderate the roundtable, which
SOUTHFIELD - Pat Amaranth, a vice president of Systems Operations for BlueCross/Blue Shield of Michigan, will moderate one of the sessions at the March 23 symposium at Lawrence Technological University focused on providing female executives and entrepreneurs with career-building skills. Amaranth said she is doing this session because she views the audience as crucial to
DETROIT - Within the next couple of weeks Michigan InfraGard members will receive the first issue of "The Gardian," an email newsletter designed to provide informative, useful and thought provoking articles about issues of interest and concern to InfraGard nationwide. It will be distributed as an html e-newsletter containing introductory paragraphs with links to the
ANN ARBOR - Despite a weak fourth quarter, the U.S. economy turned in a solid performance last year and will continue its steady growth over the next two years, according to a new University of Michigan economic forecast. "The pace of output growth rebounds from its late 2005 slowdown during the first half of this
NEW YORK - Microsoft will spend $500 million this year to promote upcoming products designed to make business workers more productive, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday at a Microsoft-organized customer event. Software due to arrive over the next year will cater to information workers in corporations, CNET.Com reported. The event was specifically targeted at business
LANSING - Michigan High school students would have to pass a stricter curriculum that includes specific credits in English, science, mathematics, social studies and foreign languages under legislation the Senate approved unanimously Thursday. A controversial amendment that would allow students to take "an alternative approach" to Algebra II in consultation with a student's parents, math
LANSING - The Michigan House voted Thursday to eliminate the Single Business Tax by the end of 2007, but gave lawmakers 440 days to come up with a different tax system to replace the $2 billion lost from the SBT repeal.
LANSING - The Michigan House on Thursday, following the lead of the Michigan Senate last Thursday, approved legislation that would hike the state's minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.95 an hour beginning in October. SB 318 won approval on a 73-34 vote. Twenty four Republicans voted for the increase along with 49 Democrats. The House