DETROIT - Google has extended a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to its seven tech hubs throughout North America, including Detroit's M@dison Block. Startups will have the incredible opportunity to travel to Silicon Valley to pitch Google and its investors. Deadline is Feb. 9. This opportunity comes to Detroit through the Google for Entrepreneurs Tech Hub Network, which
LIVONIA - Inventev, a new Detroit-based company that brings mobile power generation to commercial fleets using medium-duty trucks, won first place and a check for $5000 in the MiQuest business plan competition Thursday night. MiQuest is the former Great Lakes Entrepreneurs Quest. First place in the New Business Ideas category went to Kalamazoo-based Micro-LAM Technologies,
DETROIT ? How would you like the chance to get some in-depth Internet training that would teach you how to build websites, iPhone apps and do killer on-line marketing - at a discount? Jan. 31 is the last day to qualify. Grand Circus, a training institute in the heart of downtown Detroit, is offering readers
SOUTHFIELD - Johnson Controls will partner with Lawrence Technological University to identify and validate new energy storage technologies to help Johnson Controls? ongoing efforts to help automakers meet fuel economy and emissions standards, help consumers save money at the pump, and deliver improved vehicle performance and functionality. Johnson Controls will donate and install state-of-the-art test
SAN FRANCISCO ? Google has sold Motorola for $2.91 billion, consisting of $660 million in cash and $750 million in Lenovo shares, with the remaining $1.5 billion paid in the form of a three-year promissory note. Lenovo gets the Motorola brand, as well as its portfolio of devices, including the Moto X and Moto G.
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.,