ANN ARBOR ? Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest will announce the winners of its fall 2010 business-plan competition at the Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship Jan. 31 at Ann Arbor's Skyline High School. 2011 will be the eleventh year for ACE. Each year, the event gets bigger, and better. After having been held at Washtenaw Community College's
EAST LANSING ? Boost Greater Lansing is hosting a pre-elevator pitch night for entrepreneurs interested in getting in front of investors Dec. 15 at 4 pm at Hannah Community Center. Twenty lucky participants will compete for the votes of an expert panel as well as an audience of entrepreneur support professionals. The top two vote
SOUTHFIELD ? The Michigan Council of Women in Technology is hosting its Connect-Net Networking Forum on Dec. 14 ? Holiday Helps: Networking Tips, Connect-Net Review and Cookie Exchange. During the last event of 2010, the presenter will help you match your professional and social style with specific networking techniques. You'll also learn about network resource
LOS ANGELES - The venture capital industry is clawing its way back after a ten-year drought. AlwayOn's editors unveil the top 100 venture capital firms that are leading the comeback and proving that high-growth private company investment opportunities still exist for the wise and disciplined VC. None of the companies were from Michigan. During the
DETROIT ? Michigan Hall at Cobo Center will be transformed into an interactive display showcase in January 2011 during the North American International Auto Show, highlighting the many ways that Michigan companies are building and creating eco-friendly communities and sustainable lifestyles. "Smarter Living In Michigan? will be the Michigan Economic Development Corp.'s follow up in
SAGINAW - If you're interested in responding to Federal or Department of Defense solicitations this seminar will certainly be of interest to you. Todd Olson, Director of the Northwest Michigan Council of Governments PTAC will give an overview of how to understand a solicitation and the information buried within it. More specifically, the Saginaw Future
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor Ad Club's Holiday networking event will benefit 826 Michigan, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students aged 6-18 with creative writing skills and helping teachers inspire their students to write. The benefit will be held at Sabor Latino (211 N. Main St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104) on December 9th from
WASHINGTON DC - The Do Not Call list easily tops the list of the Federal Trade Commission's popular successes, with one official joking that that it became "the most popular government program since the Elvis stamp." The FTC now hopes to build on that unusual success with a Do Not Track concept that would restrict
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network has selected CommScope as fiber-optic cable vendor for its broadband stimulus project, REACH-3MC, which bested other qualified suppliers that responded to a Request for Proposal Merit issued in late June. While there were several strong proposals, the Merit team's thorough review of all RFPs showed that CommScope could deliver the
TORONTO, Can. - Research In Motion has been butting heads with foreign governments over its tight security, but its latest BlackBerry 6 OS has won approval from the U.S. government for those same standards. RIM announced today that its BlackBerry 6 operating system is now FIPS 140-2 certified. FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) is a