AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems, which provides ERP software for manufacturers, announced this week that the company has received an investment totaling $6 million from multiple sources. Plex will use the growth capital to build on its strong customer base, expand its product development, and accelerate sales and marketing efforts. Funds advised by Apax Partners,
DEARBORN - Donna Ventimiglia, chairman of the Michigan Council of Women In Technology Foundation Advisory Board, talks about how the money raised in the 2009 Signature Event Gala will be used to support the next generation of women technology professionals. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
LANSING - Greg Main, the latest president and CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp., has been on the job about six months. In this Newsmaker Interview he talks about what he wants to do as the head of the state's economic development agency, and what changes he thinks are needed to help bring the
YPSILANTI - Trend Carpenter, the new Michigan Chief Information Security Officer, talks about how he plans to follow in the footsteps of his former boss, Dan Lohrmann, now Michigan's Chief Technology Officer. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
ANN ARBOR ? University of Michigan Finance Professor David Brophy was given the Lifetime Achievement Award Monday night by the Michigan Venture Capital Association in part for his idea to create an annual get together for VC's around the country to showcase Michigan technology startups. Brophy is the father of the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium,
TROY ? Intelligent Connections is hosting a luncheon on Nov. 18 at Maggiano's Little Italy to update executives on how Internet Security has changed in a Web 2.0 world. This is a free event and RSVP is required. Web 2.0 has changed how companies use the Internet. Businesses have started to utilize Web 2.0 on
LANSING - Liquid Web Inc., the largest Web hosting company in Michigan with more than 20,000 clients in more than 120 countries, Wednesday opened its new cloud computing data center and world headquarters, boosting the company's hosting capabilities to 35,000 servers at three data centers. The $80-million, 90,000-square-foot facility in southwest Lansing will employ 600
LANSING - The H1N1 flu virus, the swine flu, is no more deadly than seasonal flu, senators were told, but it will likely result in more deaths because it is so widespread and because there is no general immunity to the disease. Members of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Department of Community Health were
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Small Business Administration Tuesday announced a three-year agreement to expand and deliver entrepreneurship training for service-disabled veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The agreement with SBA�??s Office of Veterans Business Development will support the expansion of the year-long Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities. The expansion of this innovative
ANN ARBOR - Don't have coins to drop into the Salvation Army Red Kettle this year.? No worries if you live in Washtenaw County, where the Salvation Army will be taking credit cards at kettles in Briarwood Mall and Sam's Club in Ypsilanti. TSA-WC is the first corps in the state of Michigan, as well