LIVONIA - Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest announced Thursday at the Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship that is has merged with the Small Business Foundation of Michigan and has been renamed MiQuest. MiQuest?s President Diane Durance said the rebranding of GLEQ and its alignment with SBF allows MiQuest to tap the historical strengths of both organizations and
LANSING - Though some details are yet to be addressed, Michigan voters can likely expect to be asked to put a minimum wage increase on the 2014 ballot. The Raise Michigan Committee, announced Monday, is hoping to see the electorate act where legislative Republicans and Governor Rick Snyder have indicated they would not. The group,
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - Great Lakes Angels has opened its Feb. 12 meeting to angel investors that may not be members of an angel group yet and would might like to do so. Angel investors typically are the second round of financing for start-ups after the friends and family round. Those high net worth individuals making
DETROIT ? Eight out of 10 chief information officers survey in the Detroit metropolitan area plan to hire IT professionals in the first half of 2014, either to expand or fill open jobs. So says Robert Half Technology in its IT Hiring Forecast and Local Trend Report. This figure is 7 percentage points higher than
WASHINGTON D.C. ? President Obama has struck a tentative deal with major Internet companies allowing them to share more public details about how the government collects data on their customers. The deal, announced Monday, must still be approved by a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge. It would allow Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp. , Apple Inc.,
PLEASANT RIDGE ? The rising popularity of smartphones made ePrize, the global promotions company based in suburban Detroit, to change its name last week to HelloWorld to reflect the new ways people engage digitally. ePrize decided to leave 15 years of brand equity on the table for a name that better reflects the company?s recent
DETROIT ? The good news is Compuware Corp. met Wall Street expectations of posting 11 cents a share for the third fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31. The bad news is both revenue and profits fell for the state?s largest tech company. Here?s the fine print: Net income in the third fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31
LANSING - One day after Governor Rick Snyder unveiled his proposal for the state to commit $350 million over the next 20 years toward the pensions of retired Detroit city government employees to mitigate reductions to those pensions due to the city's bankruptcy, several suburban Detroit legislators are asking for more specifics before committing to
STAMFORD - By 2017, mobile apps will be downloaded more than 268 billion times, generating revenue of more than $77 billion and making apps one of the most popular computing tools for users across the globe, according to Gartner. As a result, Gartner predicts that mobile users will provide personalized data streams to more than
GRAND RAPIDS - Student and faculty volunteers from Davenport University are trained and ready to kick off free income tax preparation sessions, available to low- and middle- income tax-filers (less than $55,000 in total family income) at locations across West Michigan. Every year, millions of dollars in tax refunds and credits go unclaimed by those