ANN ARBOR ? Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest, a business-plan writing contest, has never had a cycle as successful as the one underway. Some 111 teams signed up to win cash prizes and more importantly lean how to write a plan that will attract potential investors ? some 32 teams more than in the spring cycle.
TROY - Employment in the Life Sciences sector grew by 13.2 percent, while employment outside the advanced auto sector was up from 2005 to 2006, a new study by Automation Alley shows. The Fourth Annual Technology Industry Report: Driving Southeast Michigan Forward, also showed the average wage for workers in the Life Sciences sector grew
DETROIT - On Thursday, TechTown launched its International Soft Landings program, designed to ease the transition overseas companies face when they enter the U.S. market by providing them with business services that speed up the establishment of an international branch. TechTown is Wayne State University's 43-acre research and technology park currently incubating more than 50
ANN ARBOR ? The New Enterprise Forum will host a panel discussion on Nov. 20 on building and evolving a management team for a growing venture. The event, Is Your Management Team Smarter Than You?>
NEW YORK - The U.S. economy is in the midst of the worst part of the recession, with a recovery starting in the third quarter of 2009, according to economists polled in the latest Wall Street Journal survey. On average the 54 economists surveyed expect gross domestic product to decline 3 percent at an annualized
NEW YORK - Forbes magazine predicts this may be the last holiday season you can dodge sales taxes by buying presents on the Web. State legislators, retailers and lawyers say 2009 may be the year Internet taxes finally come to pass. The idea, which would levy sales tax on most goods bought online, has been
TROY - Strategic Staffing Solutions, a Detroit-based international Information Technology Services company, has completed the largest acquisition in its 18-year history, a move that extends the company to the West coast. Terms were not disclosed. S3 is acquiring the IT Services division of National Technical Systems, which includes locations in Los Angeles and San Francisco;
GRAND RAPIDS - Late last year when Dell announced its decision to create an integrated marketing and communications agency in a deal that was valued at $4.5 billion in agency billings (code named Project da Vinci), many focused on the $4.5 billion number and the 1000 new employees this agency would need. Others listened to
HOLLAND - Rutherford & Associates, which makes accounting and management software for food and beverage distributors, has hired Mason Koffman as national sales director. Koffman will be responsible for executing the national sales expansion plans and leadership of eoStar, Rutherford & Associates�?? flagship product. eoStar manages more than $1 billion in consumer packaged goods, predominately
WASHINGTON DC - Michigan's Congressional delegation, in a message mirrored by the delegation from Ohio, on Monday urged the Bush administration to use authority within the $700 billion financial rescue package to provide immediate help to the Detroit Three automakers. The potential crisis that could force the closure of more manufacturing sites also prompted mayors