DETROIT - The deadline to apply for the $1 million Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition is Aug. 14 for companies and Sept. 26 for students. Top prize for the business winner is $500,000. AMIC showcases the best and brightest new business concepts to investment capital to help foster their growth within Michigan. Targeting entrepreneurs with mid-to-late
SOUTHFIELD - Brooks Kushman has established an Open Sourcing Management practice group. Brooks Kushman's OSM group helps companies understand and select OSS, and comply with OSS license terms. As an intellectual property law firm, Brooks Kushman can assist organizations in this area both to identify a company?s current and future OSS status, as well as
LANSING ? The Michigan Strategic Fund has approved $1.85 million in Michigan Business Development Program incentives to three companies planning on spending $86 million to expand their operations and hire 600 new workers. The projects approved today: Detroit Diesel Corporation, a member of the Daimler group, is a leading manufacturer of heavy duty diesel engines
LANSING - Michigan Shifting Gears kicks off a new three-month session on September 24. Registration is open through September 13. The program is designed to help experienced professionals, returning veterans, stay-at-home parents and others facing a career crossroads fine-tune their skills to fit the needs of small businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups. Launched in 2009 by
LANSING - The Michigan Film Office announced Wednesday the feature film Money is Money has been approved for a film incentive from the state. The twist-filled thriller is set in Detroit and the surrounding areas and is scheduled to film later this summer. Money is Money was awarded an incentive of $2,009,298 on $6,453,717 of
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced Wednesday that it has completed milestones for its REACH-3MC Round II fiber-optic construction project. REACH-3MC Round II began in August 2010 when Merit received grant funding to construct 1,270 miles of fiber-optic infrastructure across 29 counties in Michigan's Northern Lower and Upper Peninsula with additional paths to key interconnection
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder is beginning to regain some of the support he lost after signing right-to-work legislation last year, but he is still within striking distance for expected Democratic challenger Mark Schauer, a poll released Wednesday by Lambert, Edwards and Associates and Denno Research shows. Snyder had a 44 percent favorable rating in
WASHINGTON DC - The National Security Agency has a secret program that allows it to see just about everything a person does on the Internet, according to a new report. NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who is still holed up in a Moscow airport, has reportedly leaked to The Guardian new details on a high-powered, secret
KALAMAZOO - Kalamazoo Valley Community College announced the selection of a downtown location where it will expand its curriculum to include training in sustainable food production, distribution and preparation; all part of the college?s efforts to increase community understanding of and access to healthy food and nutrition. The program is in partnership with Bronson Healthcare
ANN ARBOR - Citizen satisfaction with government websites remains flat according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index E-Government Satisfaction Index, released Tuesday in partnership with customer analytics firm ForeSee. Citizen satisfaction with federal government websites scores 75 on the ACSI?s 100-point scale. Satisfaction has remained at or near 75 on ACSI?s 100-point scale since 2009.