LANSING ? If you're a business executive that wants to compete in the second round of the Emerging 200 Initiative developed by the Small Business Administration, you need to apply by close of business March 31. Last year, 16 Detroit-based small businesses successfully completed this in-depth training program for senior executives. Graduates of the program
NEW YORK - In the basement of the HarperCollins building in midtown Manhattan, headquarters of Global Rainmakers, a group of physicists and computer engineers are hunting identity thieves. Their weapon: an agile and inexpensive iris scanner that can identify people at a glance with a nearly zero margin of error. Hector Hoyos, Global Rainmakers' founder,
SPRING LAKE - Integrated logistics solutions provider TGW has hired Kevin Thuet to the newly created position of Director of Systems Development. In this role, Thuet will be responsible TGW?s Systems Development efforts. Thuet has designed over 300 different Distribution and Manufacturing facilities worldwide for such companies as Nike, Motorola, USPS, Medtronic, Vans, HP, Excel
GRAND RAPIDS - More than 500 students interested in entrepreneurship learned from some of the country's top young entrepreneurs about what drives and motivates entrepreneurs, and how they can take their own ideas and turn them into business opportunities during a half-day, high-energy conference March 30 at Grand Valley State University. GVSU's Center for Entrepreneurship
ROYAL OAK - RTT USA has updated its RTT DeltaGen 9.5 3D visualization package with a range of new functions allowing nearly all visualization tasks to be carried out with just one application, resulting in cost and time efficiency. The software also include a product data management connection. RTT DeltaGen 9.5 features unique and sophisticated
ANN ARBOR - Adaptive Materials, the leader in manufacturing portable power through solid oxide fuel cells, was recently awarded $3 million through the Centers of Energy Excellence Program. The company will use the funding to support the commercialization of its fuel cells within the consumer leisure market. "Adaptive Materials is ready to move forward the
GRAND RAPIDS and BIRMINGHAM - MITechNews.Com, an online technology news portal, announced a media partnership with IT-Harvest, a security news portal, that will include combined news, podcasting, live events and advertising to a nationwide audience of security professionals. MITechNews.Com includes a Security section that features news, information and events listings. That news is packaged every
LANSING ? Eric Swanson, director of the Office of Shared Solutions, talks about how Michigan is trying to bring broadband Internet connections to the rural parts of the state in this Cyber Defense Update podcast interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
LANSING ? Trent Carpenter, the new Chief Information Security Officer for the state of Michigan, is in charge of keeping the bad guys out of the state's computer network ? a task made even more difficult by the tough budget he gets from the state legislature. Meet Trent in this Cyber Defense Update podcast interview.
DETROIT ? Wayne State University's TechTown has had a cafe serving its tenants for years. Now the cafe is under new management, with a new look, new menu and new catering capabilities ? a service the campus community could really use. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>