BLOOMFIELD HILLS - That?s a question worth pondering by every entrepreneur who has poured his savings and his soul into a new business that will benefit the world, and also make him rich. Suppose your company needs capital in order to grow, or outmaneuver competition, or engineer a new product? Will the investor who steps
GRAND RAPIDS ? The Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest continues its fall program for entrepreneurs with more business commercialization topics by presenting a ?Go To Market Sales Strategy? seminar November 8th at the DeVos Center at Grand Valley State University. David Brenner, Managing Partner of IdeaWorks , an entrepreneurial senior executive with almost 30 years domestic
DETROIT ? Wal-Mart and Hewlett-Packard will likely celebrate this Thanksgiving season by attempting to crush their competitors with low-price desktops and notebooks, according to a Web site that tracks bargains. CNET.Com reported that Black Friday 2005, which posts information about retail deals, posted scans of what appear to be future Wal-Mart newspaper inserts featuring a
ANN ARBOR ? Podcasting expert Ron Suarez of MediaRica will host the Top Michigan Women In Computing gala Saturday and share the stage with Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow. The gala is the primary fundraiser each year for the Association for Women in Computing Ann Arbor Chapter, which uses the gala to pay for scholarships given
PONTIAC - The Wireless Oakland Project Team Monday announced seven pilot projects ? Royal Oak, Pontiac, Troy, Birmingham, Madison Heights, Oak Park and Wixom - that will serve as a starting points for the deployment of a county wide wireless internet network. MichTel Communications was selected as the service provider. The Pilot Projects will be
DETROIT - Business software maker Compuware Corp. on Thursday posted a quarterly profit that more than tripled as cost-cutting offset a slight drop in revenue. But as reported, Compuware failed to meet Wall Street?s expectations, posting net income of 6 cents per share rather than the 7 cents anticipated by analysts. As a result, Compuware?s
LANSING - Although the securitization of the state's tobacco settlement money was touted as a huge step between the Republican and Democratic parties for the fact that Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Zeeland) and Rep. Andy Dillon (D-Redford) crossed the aisle and put together the package, last week's announcement by the House GOP that the legislation will
DETROIT ? While attention was turned to Compuware?s financial performance last week, two other IT services companies, Covansys Corp. and Syntel, both reported solid quarterly results. Covansys reported net income of $8.6 million, up 31.1 percent from net income of $6.6 million in the third quarter of 2004, but down from $11.2 million in the
DEARBORN ? With Ford Chairman William Ford Jr. doing commercials touting the greening of Ford, the No. 2 automakers chief of the hybrid-electric vehicle operations and sustainable mobility technologies has resigned, part of an increasing exodus claiming top Ford executives. Ford recently announced plans to expand hybrid production to 250,000 vehicles annually by 2010. A
TROY ? Full service training and communications company, OELearning, was named Best of Show last week at the Helen eWards for interactive communications excellence. Eight other web sites also collected trophies, the sixth year InternetTroy has hosted this statewide event. Other winners included: Interactive Experience Homeschooling.Com Business Services OlgasKitchen.Com eCommerce DetroitRetrorags.Com Business Product SlipNot.Com Online