SOUTH LYON ? Help change the life of one special little girl. You need NOT make a donation. You need NOT attend a benefit. All you need to do is give 30 seconds of your day, until May 10th, and you can change the life of Breanna Rose Strange. Breanna Rose, 11, has suffered all
YPSILANTI - A three team alliance of Bloomfield International Academy, Utica Schools and Romeo Engineering & Tech Center won the Michigan state title in FIRST Robotics April 13, earning a trip to the World Championships in St. Louis in late April. The state?s top 64 teams from 11 district tournaments around the state the prior
ANN ARBOR - Nine Michigan companies have received a combined total of more than $397,000 through the Michigan Microloan Fund Program, bringing the total amount loaned through the Fund to nearly $3.6 million. The companies received the funding to support commercialization of their core products. ?The Michigan Microloan Fund Program helps businesses across the state
GRAND RAPIDS ? Internet Service Provider Iserv announced it has doubled its sales staff, extended its call center hours to accommodate customers 24 hours a day, seven days a week and implemented a new customer assurance department. ?With all of the new services offered by Iserv, such as Hosted Voice and Enterprise Wireless, the need
LANSING ? The Michigan Business Development and Community Revitalization program is providing more than $2 million in tax incentives to four Michigan companies that will invest $44.7 million and create up to 223 jobs. ?These four companies are demonstrating that Michigan can compete with any state in the country as a great place to grow
LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan's ninth annual Michigan Entrepreneurship Score Card reports very promising progress for both small businesses and the Michigan entrepreneurial economy at large. Vigor in the Michigan entrepreneurial economy parallels Michigan?s economic turnaround since 2009. Between 2009 and 2010 the number of business establishments grew 18.1 percent, and a
ROCHESTER ? The MI Green Team announced the winners of the third annual MI Green Hall of Fame Awards, which recognize dedication and achievement of some of Michigan's green leaders in business, community service, academia and media. The 2013 MI Green Hall of Fame inductees include: Kenneth Cockrel Jr. - Detroit City Council president, founder
LANSING - A bipartisan group of U.S. House members, led by Michigan members, has called for $300 million to be added to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in the 2014 federal budget. A total of 35 U.S. House members from other Great Lakes states, and even Florida, signed a letter to the chamber's Appropriations Subcommittee
DETROIT - Gamification and CRM solutions company LevelEleven, one of the dozens of properties houses in the Madison Building owned by Detroit Venture Partners, has landed another $500,000 in seed financing that includes an undisclosed amount from long-time Michigan technology entrepreneur Rick Inatome. Inatome, a long time mentor to LevelEleven CEO Bob Marsh, was joined
WASHINGTON D.C. - Philip Lieberman, author and CEO of security firm Lieberman Software, believes United States is on the brink of suffering a major cyber attack from another nation state that will severely damage the country's national infrastructure. The security expert has spoken out as the U.S. falls into its latest bout of international confrontation,