DETROIT ? If you have a great business idea, TechTown, Wayne State University's business accelerator, a pitch competition Aug. 3 that pays the winner $1,500. But you need to register by July 1. A panel of judges will select finalists to present at Startup Soup. Each finalist will have five minutes to pitch their business
GRAND RAPIDS ? Gamification is rapidly becoming a great way to engage web site visitors and also to extract valuable demographic information, panelists said Wednesday night at an aimWest program. Gamification takes the expertise of decades developing high-engagement games and applies those formulas to real life. Reward programs, loyalty programs, and even your frequent flyer
DETROIT ? Travelers passing through Detroit Metropolitan Airport this fall will be able to connect to the Internet wirelessly at no cost, thanks to a decision Wednesday by the Wayne County Airport Authority Board. The board approved an agreement with the Los Angeles, Calif.-based airport technology provider Boingo Wireless Inc. that will enable the airport
DETROIT ? A million dollars in cash awards are up for grabs in the 2012 Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, one of North America's largest business competitions. The winner gets $500,000 alone, runner-up wins $150,000 plus there are business in-kind awards to later stage, entrepreneurial businesses that have the potential to have an immediate and positive
LANSING - Instate students at the University of Michigan's main campus in Ann Arbor will see tuition rise by 2.8 percent for the 2012-13 school year after approval Thursday by the U-M Board of Regents of the school's budget. The board also approved a 3.6 percent increase for U-M Flint and 3.7 percent for U-M
LANSING - Several state forest campgrounds in the Upper Peninsula temporarily closed during the Duck Lake Fire have been completely or partially reopened to visitors, the Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday. Michigan?s Upper Peninsula, and the majority of its recreational facilities, is open for business and with the tourism season gearing up officials from
LANSING - Storm On Demand, the cloud hosting arm of managed hosting provider Liquid Web, has recently announced that it has launched Virtual Private Network solutions for its users to take advantage of this VPN as an entry level security and networking solution that does not require dedicated hardware. Storm On Demand also simultaneously performs
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation Thursday announced Michigan Strategic Fund approval of loans of up to $6.8 million for five growing Michigan companies through the Michigan Business Growth Fund Loan Participation Program. ?The Loan Participation Program will allow these companies to move forward and continue to grow, which in turn brings jobs and
ROYAL OAK ? Attend the June 28 Check Point GAiA Technical Brief Webinar on June 28 and receive up to four tickets to the Detroit Tigers game on July 6. The webinar is presented by Sequris Group. Quantities are limited. Check Point GAiA Technical Brief will be roughly 30-40 minutes in duration, leaving 10-15 minutes
WASHINGTON D.C. - According to several sources who spoke with the Washington Post, Flame helped "prepare the battlefield" for other cyberattacks, including Stuxnet. The Washington Post reports, citing sources, that Flame was the brainchild of the U.S. National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Israel's military. The focus of the malware was to surreptitiously