ANN ARBOR ? Applications are open for the Ann Arbor SPARK Entrepreneur Boot Camp, a two-day intensive training session that starts Sept. 29. Entrepreneur Boot Camp is an instructive way to gain critical feedback and advice about your business model, management team, competitive positioning, market strategy and other key elements that determine if a start-up
GRAND RAPIDS ? Jason James, an independent film producer from Grand Rapids, is shooting an all digital movie in West Michigan using actors from around the state. The film, to be release around Christmas, is called Dirty Bomb ? and focuses on terrorist threatening to unleash a virus that would wipe out much of mankind.
NOVI ? Arbor Wind Power Turbines won the TiEQuest business-plan competition hosted by TiE Detroit, while Environmental Transporation Solutions was the runner up. Each won cash prizes. But Arbor Wind is automatically entered in the TiE Global competition as well as a semi finalist in the $1 million Accelerate Business Innovation Competition. The Winner, Arbor
DETROIT - The Automation Alley Awards Gala is Southeast Michigan's most prestigious event honoring technology organizations and their leaders. This year it will be held at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in downtown Detroit on Oct. 14. Award winners, selected by a panel of judges, are recognized because they are innovative leaders with vision
LANSING - As the national and state economy began to sputter in spring, so did the optimism Michigan residents showed a few months earlier, according to the latest results from the State of the State Survey conducted by the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University. In winter, 60 percent of
YPSILANTI - Eastern Michigan University will establish a 9/11 memorial after receiving a 14-foot, 6,800-pound steel column that had been part of the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks a decade ago.YPSILANTI - Eastern Michigan University will establish a 9/11 memorial after receiving a 14-foot, 6,800-pound steel column that had been part of the
LANSING - A total of 11 companies have invested $57 million in venture capital deals in Michigan during the first six months of 2011, according to data reviewed by the Wall Street Journal's online edition. But the state lags many other states in terms of the number and amount of venture capital deals done so
GRAND RAPIDS - Hopen Life Science Ventures, a life science venture capital fund, announced Aug. 4 the initial close of $25 million for its second fund, Hopen Life Science Fund II. The fund will remain open to new limited partners with a target fund size of $50 million expected by January 2012. Hopen Life Science
ANN ARBOR ? The Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition is back for a second year and again offering $1 million in cash prizes to student-lead and business start-up companies in the state, or willing to move to the state. Top prize is $500,000. Company deadline is Aug. 10. The student competition, with a deadline of Sept.
STAMFORD, Conn. - Worldwide mobile connections will reach 5.6 billion in 2011, up 11 percent from 5 billion connections in 2010, according to Gartner Mobile data services revenue will total $314.7 billion in 2011, a 22.5 percent increase from 2010 revenue of $257 billion. "Mobile data traffic will increase significantly as more people will have