ANN ARBOR - Daily deal sites attract new customers and inspire loyalty with Groupon leading the way with the largest share of the market, a new study shows. While there has been some argument about the impact of daily deal offers on new business, according to the ForeSee report, daily deal offers do increase business
SAN FRANCISCO - Anonymous continued its ongoing attack on agricultural biotech giant Monsanto by publishing an outdated database of the company's material. This is the newest in a barrage of strikes from hackers aligned with Anonymous who operate under the "AntiSec" banner. In a statement posted with the database on a Pastebin site, the hacktivist
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan is launching the Mayleben Family Venture Shaping Program through the Zell-Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies to teach student teams from across U-M how to transform identified opportunities into business. The new program is being funded by a gift from Aastrom Biosciences president & CEO Tim Mayleben (a U-M
SAN JOSE, Ca. - A group of Silicon Valley technology leaders, impatient with attempts to rewrite immigration laws, is funding efforts to help undocumented youths attend college, find jobs and stay in the country despite their illegal status. The group includes Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the Palm Pilot, and the family foundations of Andrew Grove,
LANSING ? MitechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan talks about the prediction by the Michigan Business Beat that we?ll add 500,000 jobs by 2020 with Chris Holman on the Michigan Business Network. Listen to this podcast at MichiganBusinessNetwork.Com a>>
LANSING ? MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan Michigan retailers push for tax on all Internet sales in Michigan, Mobile Michigan Monday forms a Lansing chapter with Chris Holman on the Michigan Business Network. Listen to this Internet radio webcast at MichiganBusinessNetwork.Com a>>
LANSING ? MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan talks about the Gail Windpower Project cancellation, the Detroit Auto Show Press Preview days with Chris Holman on the Michigan Business Network. Listen to this podcast at MichiganBusinessNetwork.Com a>>
GRAND RAPIDS ? The CBS News investigative TV show, 60 Minutes, featured a story March 4 about the Stuxnet virus attack on Iran ? a cyber attack examined in a new cyber crime novella, Cyber Styletto, co-authored by MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan. Cyber Styletto takes a close look at the Stuxnet virus, and then predicts
GRAND RAPIDS - MITechNews.Com is co hosting an entrepreneurial networking event on March 13 at the University Club to introduce TiE's Detroit chapter to West Michigan. Clark Hill PLC is co sponsor. Talent, Ideas and Enterprise (TiE) was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley. TiE's mission is to foster entrepreneurship globally through mentoring, networking, and
ANN ARBOR - Molecular Imaging Inc. has closed its Series A financing round, originally targeted for $8.5 million, at $9.9 million. The company said it secured a $2.5 million investment from Beringea, Michigan?s largest venture capital fund, through the $185 million InvestMichigan Growth Capital Fund ? plus another $350,000 from existing shareholders Baird Venture Partners