TROY - What would you say if someone offered you a dollar in exchange for a dime? writes Bill Barnes of Groen, Kluka & Company. To the skeptic, that statement would sound too good to be true. Yet tax professionals at my company, Groen, Kluka & Company, P.C. in Troy, can help provide a service
KALAMAZOO For Southwest Michigan First, 2003 was a year of replacing the old with the new, writes Barry Broome, CEO of Southwest Michigan First. From starting companies with displaced Pfizer scientists at the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center to redeveloping the Midlink Business Park in Comstock Township, SMF has worked to make sure the community stays
GRAND RAPIDS - Congress recently passed anti-spam legislation and President Bush has signed the CAN-SPAM Act into law, writes Todd Gardner, Director of Network Development and Public Policy for the Iserv Company. But will that put an end to all of our email problems? While the law attempts to stop illegal and deceptive practices, critics
GRAND RAPIDS - Now is the time for you to review your year-end tax situation and see if there are strategies you can employ to lower your taxes, writes Robert Buchholz, principal in Buchholz & Associates, P.C. The general tax strategy is to accelerate losses, expenses and deductions so as to recognize them this year
DETROIT Were starting a new series on Mitechnews.Com, inviting members of various tech groups around the state to contribute columns about issues, events, people, legislation, gripes, you name it in the Michigan technology community. The first column is written by Joel Welsh, chairman of the Digital Drives Ambassadors program, which aims to help change the
GROSSE POINTE WOODS - Youre spending a lot of money on spam, and you dont know it. While your grocery receipts can tell you how much youve spent on the meat-product kind of SPAM, theres no receipts for the electronic kind of spam that floods your e-mail inbox every day. Its a real cost, however,
DEARBORN - I dont know about everyone else, but Im really looking forward to this years digital drive Conference, writes Hans Erickson, CIO of the Detroit Regional Chamber. Not just because the Detroit Regional Chamber is a sponsor, not because this is the technological hallmark event for the digital drive region, and not just because
TROY - Telematics products bring a host of new possibilities to the automotive consumer market, including opportunities to improve entertainment, safety and convenience, writes Scott McCormick, Vice President at the Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration. Telematics also brings a great deal of discussion and debate as to how those systems should be incorporated safely into vehicles
DETROIT - Imagine a metro city with a high-energy, appealing nightlife. Imagine a thriving urban environment downtown, lined on its south side by three miles of park space and a river separating it from its bustling Canadian neighbor. Imagine high-tech, highly creative and highly profitable companies hiring our college graduates out of Michigan State, out
DETROIT - I got the opportunity to try out Nextels new nationwide Direct Connect service a week before I was due to leave for Harley Davidsons 100th birthday celebration in Milwaukee. Convinced that a higher being had brought these forces together for my exclusive benefit, I pondered the ways to exploit this confluence of events.