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
DETROIT - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation invites college students and recent graduates from around Michigan and beyond to LiveWorkDetroit!, a career event February 7 from 2 -8 p.m. at the Westin Book Cadillac in Detroit. ?Detroit is buzzing with new energy that is creating a dynamic, vibrant place to showcase to young adults with
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder's proposal to help protect Detroit pension holders by using $350 million in state funds over 20 years was criticized Monday by a top Wall Street rating agency as not showing enough protection towards bondholders and creating an "us versus them" attitude in terms of repaying debt. The short assessment by
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,
LANSING - Last fall, while planting the seeds for a modest educational conference for growers hosted by the Michigan Corn, Soy and Wheat Check-Off Programs, organizers never dreamed that the inaugural Great Lakes Crop Summit earlier this month would grow into such a huge success. The Summit, held January 22 and 23 at FireKeepers Casino/Hotel
TROY - Billhighway?s Prepaid MasterCard program has been selected as a 2014 Paybefore Awards winner in the Head of the Class category. The program, launched in 2012, is a way for college fraternity and sorority students to better manage their chapter expenses. Billhighway shares this honor with partners MasterCard, First Covenant Bank (FCB) and Galileo
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
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
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.,
PLEASANT RIDGE ? The rising popularity of smartphones made ePrize, the global promotions company based in suburban Detroit, to change its name last week to HelloWorld to reflect the new ways people engage digitally. ePrize decided to leave 15 years of brand equity on the table for a name that better reflects the company?s recent