ANN ARBOR ? So, have you started your holiday shopping yet? If not, what are you waiting for? This past weekend was the traditional start of the Holiday shopping season and the stores were packed. If you weren?t one of people stampeding at Wal-Mart to buy their $400 laptops on Black Friday, you?ve missed your
TROY - Graphics and photographs- what is the difference? Is there a difference? Yes, and photographs are on the way out. They have been getting squeezed out of the lives of everyday citizens for the last five years. Camera companies are leaning toward digital photography. Digital photography is much more versatile than standard photographs as
ANN ARBOR - Workforce development is no longer just about job training programs, low-income workers, ?at-risk? populations, unskilled labor, or simple job creation. Workforce development is as much its own effort as a tool for overall economic development ? especially in the high-growth, technology industries. In 1998, with the passage of the Workforce Investment Act
GRAND RAPIDS - The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 became law on October 17. While most of the provisions of this new 240-page statute are directed at consumer bankruptcies, there are a number of provisions that affect businesses. One of the changes that has great potential benefit for businesses is the
ANN ARBOR - For the first time since World War II, a disconnect exists between Michigan?s economy and the national economy. For more than five years, Michigan?s economy has lagged behind the national economy; plagued by budget deficits, funding woes and unemployment ? which have all become symptoms of a much larger problem: Michigan is
TRAVERSE CITY - I receive a lot of calls from people and companies who are being threatened with an Anti-Cyber Squatting Consumer Protection Act claim because they registered a domain name identical or similar to a trademark held by someone else. Inevitably, I hear the words ?Network Solutions allowed me to register the domain, so
TRAVERSE CITY ? A non-compete contract is an agreement signed by an employee where he or she agrees that they will not engage in certain employment within a certain geographic area for a certain period of time after they quit or are fired. Likewise, a non-solicitation contract binds the employee not to contact the employer?s
ANN ARBOR ? It?s a typical scenario: two companies cooperate in a joint research and development project which includes an upfront business arrangement concerning the ownership, manufacture and sale of the resulting technology and intellectual property. If the project is successful, it generates unique product ideas, samples and prototypes are exchanged, and programs are developed
TROY - I have come a long way with PR, from hand delivered press releases to mass e-mails; we have both been changed by technology, writes John Bailey, founder of John Bailey & Associates public relations, in his latest blog entry. In fact, a colleague recently told me that I was ?old school?, but have
ANN ARBOR - Here we are in late October, with just over two months to go until Christmas. Once again we in the tech world will look to see what online shopping trends we can discern. For about the umpteenth time someone will declare that this is the year online shopping ?gets serious.? Of course,