LANSING - Michigan Republicans approved almost a dozen minor tweaks to their Fiscal Year 2019 General Fund and School Aid Fund (starting Oct. 1) spending plans before passing a plan that has more than $160 million left on the balance sheet. Even with the changes, the budget remains a "fiscally conservative document" that leaves roughly
ANN ARBOR - Organizers of the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium Tuesday announced the list of companies that will present at the 37th annual event, which will be held May 15-16 at the Marriott Resort in Ypsilanti. A total of 32 companies, representing the best of the emerging growth companies in the Midwest that are actively
ROYAL OAK - Airfoil’s Senior Vice President, Amy Bryson discusses how the latest tech trends and skills are building the next generation Silicon Valley, outside of California. In this podcast, she explores how technology is changing how business gets done and how businesses are created. This is true for Michigan-based companies, as well as global brands.
ROYAL OAK - Milan Stevanovich, vice president of global strategy for the Detroit Chinese Business Association, discussed the recent Detroit-China Cross Border Investment Summit he hosted at NextEnergy on April 19 that featured a full day focusing on collaborative investment opportunities between the U.S. and China. The TED-style conference emphasized collaborative investment opportunities in the
GRAND RAPIDS - Lambert, Edwards & Associates Inc., already one of the largest pubic relations agencies in the state, got bigger this week when the company announced it had acquired Owen Blicksilver Public Relations Inc. of New York City. Terms of the deal were not announced. Through this acquisition, Lambert Edwards created a top 10
ROYAL OAK - Lawrence Technological University’s Sabrina Collins will talk about the summer computer camps for high schools kids. MISBDC’s Joshua Marko will highlight the Michigan Celebrates Small Business Event in Lansing. Michigan Science Center’s Charles Gibson will explain what happened during the ITC Go the Distance On Informal Learning event. Warner Norcross + Judd’s
LANSING - PlanetM is teaming up with WardsAuto to host Match Meetings at their upcoming Interiors Conference May 30 at the Cobo Center in Detroit. The deadline for suppliers to apply is May 1. Tech Provider (supplier) Application: Tech Provider Application This event is expected to draw more than 500 industry professionals. PlanetM is
LONDON, England - A website that police say was behind millions of cyberattacks has been closed following a series of international arrests. Europol said Wednesday morning that it's shut down Webstresser.org, a page that carried out distributed denial-of-service attacks for a price, sometimes as cheap as $18.26 a month. The page had more than 136,000 users and
DEARBORN - A $1 million donation from Omron, a global leader in automation, will help fund the Omron Robotics and Human Factor Lab at the University Of Michigan-Dearborn’s Engineering Building. Ground breaking for the $90 million, 123,000 square foot building was held last Friday. Construction will begin in spring 2018. Once completed, the new ELB
DETROIT - Grand Circus announced its third round of DEVELOP(her) in three years, supported by TEKsystems, and Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation (MCWT). DEVELOP(her) provides scholarships to women who are committed to learning how to code through one of Grand Circus’ bootcamps. The first of these scholarships will be available for the July
