ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor SPARK will be hosting six educational, entrepreneurial and talent networking events in March ranging in topics from marketing and social networking to talent matching and business planning for start-ups. All events except Hot Shots will be held at SPARK Central. March 5 - Spring Training for Start-Ups: Business Planning for
DETROIT - Compuware Corporation has entered into an agreement to work with Microsoft HealthVault, Microsoft's personal health technology platform. Covisint will provide physicians with better, more efficient and secure access to patients' records by enabling patients to grant provider access to their HealthVault records through Covisint's OnDemand platform. HealthVault is a software and services health
DETROIT ? Wayne State University?s TechTown is hosting its next First Friday technology and business mixer March 7. The informal networking get together starts runs from 4-6 pm at TechTown?s headquarters, located at 440 Burroughs, between Cass & Second Ave. For more information, click on TechTownWSU.Org a>>
LANSING - U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff congratulated the Michigan Legislature, Governor Jennifer Granholm and Secretary of State Terri Land for bolstering "security through secure identification," as the Legislature wrapped up its work on bills dealing with Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. Land is asking the federal government to allow the enhanced driver's
LANSING - Adopting a Michigan renewable portfolio standard that would require that at least 10 percent of the state's energy came from renewable sources by 2015 could force energy cost increases of as much as 39 percent, a spokesperson for the auto industry told the Senate Energy Policy and Public Utilities Committee on Thursday. But
BENTON HARBOR ? Join the Women's Network at Whirlpool Corp. March 19 for an interactive seminar designed to elevate awareness, inspire and provide tools to improve your communication skills. Registration deadline is March 10. Guest speaker Judy Grant will host Your Spoken Connection. There also will be a special introduction to the Women?s Business Center
LANSING - Bills allowing creation of an enhanced Michigan drivers license passed both the Senate and House on Wednesday, putting the state into position to have a document that would allow Michigan residents to travel to Canada and Mexico without a passport. The bills do not enact the controversial federally-required Real ID provisions (Michigan received
LANSING - Legislation enabling the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to designate three new SmartZones drew the ire of some Republicans on Wednesday as the House ultimately voted the measure over to the Senate on a 79-29 vote without granting the bill immediate effect. While HB 5609 was introduced in mid-January, the House Commerce Committee, which
AUBURN HILLS ? Manufacturing software provider Plexus Systems has hired Bob Stosz as a Solutions Engineer and Anil Khanna as senior account manager. Stosz will team up with Plexus Systems? growing Sales and Service group to pursue new business and assist customers in a variety of industries including medical devices, aerospace, defense and automotive. ?Bob
TROY - ConnecTech on March 11 will host its third webinar - the focus will be When IT Becomes HR. Rick Sabatos, an IT expert, will discuss the technical side of the issue. The webinar will outline employer rights as they relate to employee Web surfing, and how IT employees can keep themselves out of