TROY - With the annual Mackinac Policy Conference in the rear-view mirror, the question on everyone's mind is "What do we do now?" How do we take hold of the momentum generated at the conference to propel Michigan into a more successful future? At the closing session, the Chamber addressed that question with seven action
SAN FRANCISCO - Almost a week after hackers posted a trove of customer information stolen from various Sony businesses' Web sites, Sony Pictures has more details on the attack. Today the company posted a statement saying that personally identifying information of 37,500 customers had been exposed in the breach, CNET News.Com. "We are continuing to
LANSING ? Syzygy Biotech Solutions, a Grand Rapids biotech company, won the $100,000 SmartZone Award at the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business plan contest at the James B. Henry Center on the Michigan State University campus. Syzygy produces biological reagents for use in DNA amplification, a fundamental and growing part of all DNA testing, related
ANN ARBOR - New Enterprise Forum will host a panel discussion on the specifics of building your first team June 16 at the Holiday Inn in Ann Arbor. This discussion should help entrepreneurs better understand how to you find, recruit, and pay for the talent needed to help grow a start-up. The event takes place
LANSING - Michigan could wipe out $5.6 billion of its unfunded liability for the future health care costs of retired state workers if the Legislature approves a bill package making sweeping changes. As first reported by Gongwer News Service last week, the Snyder administration is seeking to move all employees under the 401k retirement plan
LANSING - Fewer Michigan residents use wireline telephones, and of those who do, more are opting for competitors to the incumbent providers, according to a report released Tuesday from the Public Service Commission. The annual telecommunications competition report showed wireline service had declined another 7 percent between 2009 and 2010 to about 3.63 million lines.
LANSING - Legislation that would freeze the wages and benefit levels of public employees after their collective bargaining agreement expires without a new deal in place was signed into law Tuesday by Governor Rick Snyder. The bill (HB 4152 ) had not yet been filed with the Department of State, so a public act number
LANSING - Robert LaBrant, the general counsel for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, has the lead role in crafting the new maps for Michigan's 14 U.S. House districts, Gongwer News Service has learned. LaBrant, considered one of the foremost experts on election, campaign finance and redistricting laws in the state, is working with Jeff Timmer,
GRAND RAPIDS - US Signal has announced that its Managed Data Center, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), cloud offering, is now available. US Signal's Managed Data Center is built with dedicated resource pools designed to rapidly provision and host Virtual Private Servers accessible through US Signal provided Wide Area Networks (WAN). Adding Managed Data
DETROIT ? Strategic Staffing Solutions Tuesday opened a second floor of operations for its Detroit Development Center at the Penobscot Building. The DDC now occupies the 25th and 26th floors. The DDC opened in spring 2010 to service its first anchor customer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), which made the strategic decision to