ANN ARBOR ? BioPhotonic Solutions of East Lansing won the $5000 first place award in the Emerging Company category at the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business-plan competition Tuesday night at the ACE'12 entrepreneurship event at Skyline High School. BioPhotonic Soutions owns disruptive technology that unleashes the latent capabilities of an entire class of lasers ?
TROY ? Scott Goemmel of All Covered, a division of Konica Minolta Business Solutions, is the new president of Automaton Alley. Mark Symonds, CEO of Plex Systems, is the new vice president, the Southeast Michigan technology networking group announced Wednesday. Other members of the Automation Alley 2012 Board of Directors include: Please join us in
COOPERSVILLE - IT Resource is hosting a webinar focusing on data backup, data recovery, and business continuity services on February 15 from 12-1pm. Participate in the webinar from your own desk, or join IT Resource at 701 W. Randall, Suite C, Coopersville, where lunch will be provided. The webinar will focus on helping businesses recover
ANN ARBOR ? Ann Arbor SPARK is hosting another entrepreneur Boot Camp in March where participants will spend two full days learning how to identify critical issues for their business plans. Participants also will get an intensive and instructive way to gain critical feedback and advice about your business model, management team, competitive positioning, market
TROY - Venture Michigan Fund II announced Monday it has made a $15 million investment in Flagship Ventures Fund IV, which invests in early-stage and later-stage companies. The Massachusetts company does not yet have a Michigan office. Credit Suisse?s Customized Fund Investment Group manages VMF II, which will make investment commitments totaling $120 million to
ANN ARBOR - The Center for Automotive Research Tuesday announced the launch of the Coalition of Automotive Lightweighting Materials to support efforts by auto manufacturers to aggressively down-weight vehicles to improve performance, fuel economy and safety. CALM is the first known organization of its kind to coalesce the strengths and knowledge of the aluminum and
LANSING - The Michigan Strategic Fund and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation Tuesday announced a public hearing Feb 8 to accept questions and comments on the new Pure Michigan Venture Match Fund, which will providing matching investments in Michigan start-ups of up to $3 million. The hearing is scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon on
NORTHVILLE - Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America will supply a rear-seat entertainment system and new radio system to Mercedes-Benz for its 2012 M-Class and GL-Class vehicles. The radio is a full navigation system with voice recognition, a hard drive and a DVD player. An optional six-disc DVD changer is available. The interface - which resembles a
TRAVERSE CITY ? Frontier Computer Corp. has been named a preferred North American distributor for Peplink Multi-WAN Routers - saving customers money and providing more reliability than leased lines. As demands for online video, VoIP telephony, and video conferencing increase, so does the need for Internet Bandwidth. Peplink Balance Multi WAN Routers allow educational institutions,
ANN ARBOR - Many healthcare organizations have Spanish-speaking staff who could serve as interpreters ? with the proper training. University of Michigan Health Services Interpreter Services offers a course ? Medical Interpreting for Spanish Speakers ? to teach your staff the skills they need to interpret competently. This course is open to all fully bilingual