GRAND RAPIDS - This year was a great one for the SBTDC Tech Team. The Tech Team had a significant impact with the many new companies it served, the existing growth companies it supported, and the companies it assisted in finding the financing and resources for them to grow and prosper. The Tech Team surveys
GRAND RAPIDS -The U.S. Congress has reauthorized the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs through 2017. Through these two competitive programs, the Small Business Administration ensures that the nation's small, high-tech, innovative businesses are a significant part of the federal government's research and development efforts. Eleven federal departments participate in the
SOUTHFIELD - Secure-24 Inc. is heading to Michigan college campuses to recruit more than 50 IT professionals to fill high-tech jobs and internships at the managed IT hosting company. Secure-24 has already created more than 250 IT jobs in Michigan and plans to create another 250 jobs by 2015. The company?s current college recruitment tour
LANSING - Michigan would be on the leading edge of states if it includes performance measures for universities to see increased funding as part of the fiscal year 2012-13 budget, but it also would be on the low side of the funds committed to that incentive, the House Appropriations Higher Education Subcommittee was told Wednesday.
WASHINGTON DC - The Obama administration plans to work with Congress to enact legislation to protect peoples' online privacy based on a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. At the same time, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are committing to work with Do Not Track technology in most major Web browsers so people can stop companies
SAN FRANCISCO - California's Office of the Attorney General has gotten agreements from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard, and Research In Motion to improve privacy protections on mobile apps. The companies will require developers to include privacy policies in their apps so that users will be informed about the data that apps will access, use,
SAN FRANCISCO - Even as the company redirects efforts to HTML5 and narrows Flash's scope, Adobe is also promising investments in Flash for 5 to 10 years. Last year, Adobe Systems narrowed Flash Player's scope. It canceled the browser plug-in for mobile devices. It shifted development resources toward competing Web standards, CNET News.Com reported. But
LANSING - Liquid Web a managed hosting company with locations in Michigan and Arizona has successfully completed a SSAE-16 (formerly SAS70) and SOC 3 examinations, relevant to security, availability, and processing integrity, and has been issued an Independent Service Auditor's Report for both. The report found that Liquid Web had addressed each of the controls
LANSING - Michigan's urban areas could lead the state to a new recovery with some readjustment of the state's economic development priorities, a report commissioned by Business Leaders for Michigan said. The report, Michigan's Urban and Metropolitan Strategy, developed by Public Sector Consultants and the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, said Michigan's cities already lead
LANSING - Where students at Highland Park schools will end up for the rest of the academic year is still an open question after the Michigan House and Senate pushed through an emergency bill late Thursday afternoon. Those who show up to their classroom on Monday may not see many teachers, and if there are