DETROIT - TiE Detroit ? Talent, Ideas, Enterprise - invites high school students to enroll in a life changing unique program TiE Young Entrepreneurs. Seats are limited. Application deadline is Aug. 15. TYE will accomplish this objective by offering training and mentoring program to selected high school students who learn about the challenges and rewards
LANSING - Internet retailing giant Amazon has established several physical presences in Michigan, and under Michigan's own definition, should be assessed sales and use tax, the Michigan Retailers Association has urged the Department of Treasury. In several letters, one issued earlier this month and one in July 2012, MRA President James Hallan said Amazon has
DETROIT ? The wave of West Michigan technology companies opening offices in Detroit continued this week when Open Systems Technologies, an $80 million IT infrastructure company based in Grand Rapids, but with field offices in Ann Arbor, Minneapolis and London, England, opened its latest branch in the Grand Park Centre Building in downtown Detroit. OST
DETROIT ? Caroline Dobbins when she graduated last year from Albion College and took an internship with Challenge Detroit didn?t know what to expect working in downtown Detroit. She only ventured there to attend the occasional Detroit Tigers and Red Wings game, but never gave working and living in Motown any serious thought. A year
DETROIT - Compuware Corp. surprised Wall Street and beat first quarter earnings estimates, which has been rewarded with more favorable ratings from some analysts. The computer software and services company reported this week adjusted earnings per share increased 100 percent to a penny in the first quarter of fiscal year 2014 ended June 30 compared
LANSING - A proposal unveiled late Wednesday to help control Asian carp from getting in the Great Lakes is not strong enough because it does not call for isolating the lakes from the Mississippi River, officials said. Attorney General Bill Schuette issued some of the strongest statements against the proposal outlined, saying it would not
LANSING - The Michigan Department of Transportation is reaching out to businesses interested in creating a public-private partnership for two rest areas, highway lighting, bridge work and timber management. In a release sent on Thursday it says the department is accepting letters of interest until mid-August from interested businesses, and Jeff Cranson, spokesperson for the
LANSING - Despite inconsistent sales trends this summer, Michigan Retailers reported the highest level of optimism since 2004 in the future outlook component of the June Michigan Retail Index, which rose to 79.3 on a 100-point scale. There doesn't seem a reason to be optimistic - MRA president and CEO James Hallan said Michigan Retailers
ANN ARBOR ? Listen up E-Business. You're not doing a very good job of keeping your Internet customers happy, according to the latest survey from customer experience analytics company ForeSee Results. Its customer satisfaction scores for e-business tumbled to its lowest level since 2003 according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index E-Business Report. E-business, which
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University has received an in-kind software grant with a commercial value of $40 million from Siemens PLM Software. It is one of the largest in-kind grants in the university's history. The in-kind grant gives LTU students access to the same technology that companies around the world use every day to develop