LANSING ? Last summer's Pure Michigan advertising campaign motivated 3.2 million trips to Michigan and those visitors spent $1 billion at state businesses, paying $70 million in taxes. This information comes from a new study by Longwoods International. Comparing that $70 million with the $14.2 million spent on Pure Michigan summer out-of-state advertising last year,
EAST LANSING - Inventure Enterprises released a new version of its idView Software Suite, to enable and automate critical Child Care Worker screenings. idView - Child Care Software Suite automates comprehensive background check processes for states and agency workforce screenings brings speed, real-time control of data, and closes process gaps that leave the door open
BEIJING - Neil Heywood, the British businessman whose death in China is now a key element of China's biggest political scandal in two decades, was providing periodic consultancy services to a British strategic-intelligence company up until the time he was found dead in the city of Chongqing in November, a spokesman for the firm told
TROY - Curtis Hicks, President and CEO of Center for Computer Resources has been nominated for the 2012 SMB 150 awards. The SMB 150,a collaboration between SMB Nation and SMB Technology Network, recognizes the top 150 influencers within the worldwide SMB IT channel. ?It is truly an honor to be nominated for this recognition but
WASHINGTON - The Federal Bureau of Investigation's top cyber cop offered a grim appraisal of the nation's efforts to keep computer hackers from plundering corporate data networks: "We're not winning," he said. Shawn Henry, who is preparing to leave the FBI after more than two decades with the bureau, said in an interview with the
JACKSON ? A typical Consumers Energy customer in Michigan will save $94 on his or her gas bill over the next year because of a 13 percent price cut scheduled for April 1. No joke. Consumers Energy is reducing fuel costs for 1.7 million gas customers by about $130 million over the next year to
LANSING - Liquid Web, a managed hosting provider, now features solid state storage options in its proprietary Smart Servers line. The marriage of SSD-technology to Smart Servers adds I/O speeds that significantly outperformed market standards, to servers that already combined some of the most desirable features from both dedicated servers and cloud infrastructure. Delivering I/O
LANSING - A bill that would raise revenue for roads by $135 million per year, but also reduce revenue to the general fund by the same amount, passed the Senate Tuesday. With the passage of SB 351 , the Senate will instead provide no general fund to the Department of Transportation budget to match federal
PLEASANT RIDGE - ePrize has been selected by Advertising Age as a Best Places to Work in Marketing & Media honoree for the second year in a row. Companies awarded as one of the Best Places to Work are selected through evaluation of a company-completed survey, detailing hiring practices, benefits and pay, as well as
PLYMOUTH - Esperion Therapeutics announced positive results from a Phase 2 clinical trial for ETC-1002, an LDL cholesterol lowering drug. This small molecule activator of AMP Kinase has demonstrated preclinical and clinical activity as a metabolic regulator of imbalances in lipid and carbohydrate metabolism. Results were presented Tuesday in an oral presentation at the 2012