LANSING - Michigan Celebrates Small Business, the state's premier awards event celebrating small business excellence, will recognize over 60 small businesses at the seventh annual awards dinner on April 28th in Lansing. ?Michigan?s economy is built on a strong foundation of innovation and hard working people. Michigan Celebrates Small Business seeks to acknowledge the best
TROY - The Entrepreneurial Initiative of Southeast Michigan forum April 14 will feature presentations by emerging companies selected by a panel of the group's business leaders and investors. EISEM is a series of programs that works to highlight entrepreneurs and their businesses and further develop their message to reach customers and investors. Keynote Speaker: Dave
DETROIT ? Human tissue bank Asterand and its subsidiary BioSeek announced that the United States Patent Office has issued a patent to cover key methods and applications of the company's BioMAP Systems technology. Patent 7,908,089 relates to BioMAP and its use for the classification of clinical patient tissue specimens according to the physiological status of
ANN ARBOR - Ultra Electronics, Adaptive Materials recently appointed Aaron Crumm to president. Crumm previously served as the company's chief technology officer. Crumm will report directly to Phil Evans, divisional managing director of aircraft and vehicle systems, Ultra Electronics. Ultra Electronics acquired Adaptive Materials on December 31. Terms were not disclosed. He assumes this leadership
AUBURN HILLS ? Manufacturing ERP Solutions Provider Plex Systems announced that it has been named a 2011 Best of Michigan Business by Corp! Magazine. This annual award is presented by Corp! Magazine to honor Michigan businesses that are surviving, thriving and growing, while supporting and investing in Michigan?s future. Plex Systems will be recognized in
SAN FRANCISCO - A malicious Android app that masquerades as a free version of a legitimate app steals data and sends spam text messages and a warning that chastise the user for trying to get around paying for the actual app, Symantec said. The app, available on several file-sharing sites in North America and Asia
ANN ARBOR - Internet2 announced that Stephen (Steve) Wolff, widely considered as one of the original architects and fathers of the Internet, will join its staff as Interim Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Wolff will be responsible for developing a strategic technical roadmap for the organization to ensure the research and
GRAND RAPIDS - West Michigan Startup accelerator, Momentum, kicks off its 2011 program with The Michigan Lean Startup Conference May 19 at Grand Valley State University's Eberhard Center where entrepreneurs will rapidly prototype new business models. Eric Ries is creator of the Lean Startup Methodology and keynote speaker. Other speakers at the Lean Startup Conference
LANSING - The 10 most structurally deficient bridges in Michigan may be located in urban areas, but some rural counties have the highest number of bridges in bad shape, according to a new report issued by Transportation for America. In "The Fix We're In For: The State of Michigan's Bridges" only four out of Michigan's
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue wrote a newspaper column published Tuesday that calls for the construction of a new bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, whether the government-run proposal or the one from the owners of the Ambassador Bridge. Donohue's column, published in the Washington Examiner, is a different stance