GRAND RAPIDS ? What makes Lean Entrepreneurship so different from more traditional business development is the market decides the value of the product or service developed, experts said Thursday during the Michigan Lean Startup Conference, sponsored by Start Garden. Brant Cooper, author of the popular Lean Startup book, "The Entrepreneurs' Guide to Customer Development," summed
AUBURN HILLS ? Plex Systems announced Friday that more than 700 customers from 170 companies attended the three-day PowerPlex 2012 conference in Indianapolis, the largest number of participants in the event's 11-year history. In keeping with the conference theme, ?Know More, Do More, Win More,? Plex Online users learned about new features of Plex Online,
GRAND RAPIDS - Ever wonder how giant organizations handle Social and Emerging Media? In an age of transparent and participatory government, how are these new values emerging in military social channels, and extending to other communications channels? Lieutenant Commander Chris Servello of the Navy Office of Information, is the Director of Emerging Media and the
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor SPARK's first Shifting Code cohort graduated from the program May 16 in a ceremony at SPARK Central. The 26 graduates successfully completed the Shifting Code program, a program designed and administered by Ann Arbor SPARK and funded by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to meet regional demand for software developers.
GRAND RAPIDS - A team of international scientists has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the cause of bile duct cancer, a deadly type of liver cancer. By identifying several new genes frequently mutated in bile duct cancers, researchers are paving the way for better understanding of how bile duct cancers develop. Their discovery is
GRAND RAPIDS - Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D., winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of RNA splicing, will be honored May 23 at Van Andel Institute as the first recipient of the Han Mo Koo Memorial Award. The award is named after one of VAI?s founding scientists who succumbed
LIVONIA - The 7th Annual Michigan System i and AIX Technical Education Conference will take place June 12 at the VisTaTech Center, Schoolcraft College. The conference will feature more than 45 sessions presented by 14 leading industry experts. Topics include AIX, RDP, PHP, RPG, CL, Disaster Recovery, Open Source, Web Development, DB2 Web Query, Security,
ANN ARBOR - Rubicon Genomics has launched the first product in its ThruPLEX family of sample preparation kits designed and optimized for next generation sequencing. ThruPLEX-FD kits leverage Rubicon?s patented DNA repair and ligation methods to deliver significantly faster and more sensitive sequencing of plasma, formalin-fixed, ChIP and other fragmented DNA with substantially increased throughput.
LIVONIA - SIP trunking provider Clearfly Communications has formed a strategic partnership with Technology Solutions, LLC, a leading unified communications company, to provide small and medium size businesses with voice, data, and mobile services. SIP is an IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), internet based protocol originally designed for call set-up and control. According to the
LANSING - Some potentially troublesome data coming in on the Michigan's new tax on health insurance claims shows it is generating only half of what state officials projected, a situation that could raise concerns about whether the state will have enough money to avoid cutting Medicaid programs. But the key word is "potentially." The tax