LANSING - Four Lansing-area business incubators will receive $5,000 each from the New Economy Division of the Lansing Economic Area Partnership after they responded to a request for proposals earlier this year. The awarded incubators are: The Allen Neighborhood Center, an agriculture-based incubator on the east side of Lansing. The Technology Innovation Center, a tech
MARQUETTE - Travel Marquette, taking a page from Grand Rapids’ ArtPrize, is launching a new business competition that encourages entrepreneurs to create exhibits that express a business or product idea. SmartPrize exhibits will be displayed throughout downtown Marquette and be judged by a panel as well as crowd votes. “We are excited to invite innovators and
SOUTHFIELD - Desktop support jobs are most in demand, a new survey shows, followed by database management, network and windows administration skills. The report comes from the temporary tech staffing firm Robert Half Technology, which added in a press release that hiring challenges remain as IT operations move into 2016. A survey of CIOs and
LANSING - The state's two largest utilities are fighting back against what they believe have been potential misrepresentations about news from state officials on Tuesday that the state can essentially maintain business-as-usual practices and still be in compliance for at least a decade with the federal Clean Power Plan on carbon emissions. "In less than
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder last week signed a pair of bills providing sales and use tax exemptions for certain data centers saying they "modernize the structure of Michigan's tax code" by give data centers similar treatment as manufacturing facilities, which better aligns the state with tax laws elsewhere. "Michigan has a long tradition of
ANN ARBOR - Consumer confidence rose to its highest level since July, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. The December reading was nearly equal to the 2015 average of 92.9, which was the highest since 2004. The gain was largely due to lower inflation, which bolstered real incomes and brightened buying plans
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Today, visitors to NORAD's Santa Tracking website can watch Santa flying around the world delivering presents to good little boys and girls, starting in Australia. NORAD’s “Santa Cams” will stream videos on the website as Santa makes his way over various locations. Then, at 4 a.m. MST (6 a.m.
LANSING - Michigan's population grew slightly from 2014 to 2015, helped by births and immigration, but the rate of growth is slow enough that the state could lose another congressional seat, figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau showed. In fact, Kurt Metzger, founder of Data Driven Detroit and mayor of Pleasant Ridge, said
DETROIT - The Michigan Science Center is kicking off a new project to interest girls in STEM careers. Called the STEMinista Project, the goal is to collect 150 profiles of women working in STEM careers, in STEM research, education and entrepreneurship or who have STEM degrees, to use as role models for the girls who
FERNDALE - If you get hammered on New Year’s Eve this year, BeMYDD (BeMyDesignatedDriver) will drive you home in your car and the company will donate $1 of your fee to an animal shelter that does not kill puppies. It’s called the Puppy Love campaign. The service is available in metro Detroit and Ann Arbor.
