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ROYAL OAK - We’re launching two new business segments Monday Feb. 6 on M2 TechCast. Tonya Matthews, PhD, director of the Michigan Science Center, kicks off her STEM-focused monthly segment, while Michael Rogers, communications director at the Small Business Association of Michigan, will talk about SBAM and what products and services it offers businesses. Also
GLENVIEW, IL - Some 85 percent of small business owners are optimistic about the economy in 2017 marking a high water mark since May 2015, based on the SurePayroll Scorecard survey. The highest business optimism last year was 78 percent. What’s more, 66 percent of small business owners expect to be profitable in 2017, with
ROYAL OAK - Tember Shea, director of the Inforum inGAGE, talks about how these training sessions can help women entrepreneurs rapidly grow their businesses. inGAGE provides confidential peer-to-peer founders forum where emerging second-stage entrepreneurs assess their companies’ operations, management, finances, and personnel to examine strengths and challenges. Through this process, participants can identify and formulate
ROYAL OAK - Quade Finnigan a senior consultant at Red Level Networks tells business folks they don’t need to be afraid of cloud computing. Although he was an early skeptic, he’s now a convert to the advantages including the safety and security levels. Finnigan last month published a blog post at Red Level entitled, Don’t
ROYAL OAK - Peter Schwartz from Supported Intelligence tells you how to crush the March Madness office pool with a software program called Smart Bracket. The sequential decision software works well with the 64-game NCAA basketball tournament. It doesn’t give you the perfect bracket, but gives you a better opportunity to win your pool. Last
EAST LANSING - There is no evidence that indicates systematic tampering or hacking of voting machines, or conspiracy or fraud among election officials, resulted in vote tallies altered to favor the Republican candidate in Michigan in 2016, experts at the consulting firm Anderson Economic Group LLC reported this week. Anderson Economic Group also reported there
ANN ARBOR - Consumers expressed a higher level of confidence in January than at any other time in the last dozen years. The post-election surge in confidence was driven by a more optimistic outlook for the economy and job growth during the year ahead as well as more favorable economic prospects over the next five
ROYAL OAK - On M2 TechCast Jan. 30, Mike Lomonoco from Open System Technologies will talk about a huge coder meetup at OST's Grand Rapids headquarters on Feb. 8. Steve Tomaszewski of Talkingcarz.com will provide details of his auto dealer video news service that’s coming to Michigan. Keith Brophy, state director of the MISBDC, will
ROYAL OAK - CloudTech1 is kicking off a new breakfast series at Automation Alley on Feb. 23 that CEO Rick Beckers calls the Tornado breakfast sessions for “early birds and ambitious workers that want to grow together. Job hunters, employees, and decision makers all welcomed.” Beckers, interviewed on M2 TechCast by co-hosts Matt Roush and
ROYAL OAK - Since Aug. 29, when the Federal Aviation Administration created drone pilot licenses, some 25,000 people have applied, says Enrico Schaefer, founder of DroneLaw.Pro in Traverse City. The FAA had predicted some 600,000 would apply. The FAA also is reviewing regulations under part 107 that allow drone pilots to fly over people, something
