GLENVIEW, IL - Some 85 percent of small business owners are optimistic about the economy in 2017 marking a high water mark since May 2015, based on the SurePayroll Scorecard survey. The highest business optimism last year was 78 percent. What’s more, 66 percent of small business owners expect to be profitable in 2017, with
ROYAL OAK - Quade Finnigan a senior consultant at Red Level Networks tells business folks they don’t need to be afraid of cloud computing. Although he was an early skeptic, he’s now a convert to the advantages including the safety and security levels. Finnigan last month published a blog post at Red Level entitled, Don’t
ROYAL OAK - Peter Schwartz from Supported Intelligence tells you how to crush the March Madness office pool with a software program called Smart Bracket. The sequential decision software works well with the 64-game NCAA basketball tournament. It doesn’t give you the perfect bracket, but gives you a better opportunity to win your pool. Last
EAST LANSING - There is no evidence that indicates systematic tampering or hacking of voting machines, or conspiracy or fraud among election officials, resulted in vote tallies altered to favor the Republican candidate in Michigan in 2016, experts at the consulting firm Anderson Economic Group LLC reported this week. Anderson Economic Group also reported there
KALAMAZOO - Kalamazoo Candle Company earned the coveted Makers’ Mart title Thursday at Catalyst University, a daylong leadership event annually hosted by Southwest Michigan First. Kalamazoo Candle Company was selected by the 2,500 event attendees from a pool of four finalists—all regional product makers based in Southwest Michigan. The company wins $5,000 in cash and
ANN ARBOR - Consumers expressed a higher level of confidence in January than at any other time in the last dozen years. The post-election surge in confidence was driven by a more optimistic outlook for the economy and job growth during the year ahead as well as more favorable economic prospects over the next five
ROYAL OAK - On M2 TechCast Jan. 30, Mike Lomonoco from Open System Technologies will talk about a huge coder meetup at OST's Grand Rapids headquarters on Feb. 8. Steve Tomaszewski of Talkingcarz.com will provide details of his auto dealer video news service that’s coming to Michigan. Keith Brophy, state director of the MISBDC, will
LANSING - As Rep. Gary Glenn prepares to take over the Michigan House Energy Policy Committee, he is looking to better educate all members on the topic and move the state more toward choice in the market, whether that means total choice or incremental steps during the next two years. Glenn (R-Midland) has long been
LANSING - Gongwer News Service Thursday announced enhancements to its bill tracking services that give subscribers more control over the display of personal comments tied to legislation. The changes improve subscribers' ability to generate personalized bill status reports that can be shared with members, clients, colleagues and others. All bill tracking and reporting features are
ANN ARBOR - Increasingly popular techniques that infer species boundaries in animals and plants solely by analyzing genetic differences are flawed and can lead to inflated diversity estimates, according to a new study from two University of Michigan evolutionary biologists. Lacey Knowles and Jeet Sukumaran investigated the accuracy of inferences made by a mathematical model
