ANN ARBOR - Four Michigan companies recently received investments from the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund totaling $1 million. To date, the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund, a collaborative effort of Michigan?s SmartZones to support start-ups? product commercialization, has awarded 83 Michigan companies with seed funding totaling more than $19 million. ?It?s exciting to see how Michigan
DETROIT - Saying Michigan's economic future is dependent on having more people with higher educational skills, the group Business Leaders for Michigan is stepping up efforts to restore, ultimately, another $1 billion to higher education funding to the state. Doing so would help erase much of the funding cuts Michigan's 15 public four- year universities
DETROIT - Software and services company Compuware posted a slightly larger quarterly profit than Wall Street expected, $25.3 million, or 12 cents a share, compared with $21.6 million or 10 cents a share last year. Analysts were expecting 11 cents. For the third quarter of fiscal 2013, which ended Dec. 31, the computer services company
DETROIT ? Wayne State University is offering the Project Management Masters Certification Program March 12 - 15. Project management professionals, business and technology professionals, students, and educators are invited to register. The PMMC is designed for those seeking professional project management certification. It serves as both a thorough professional education and recognized certification. Those seeking
DETROIT - A polished pitch comes with practice. Entrepreneurs with an early-stage, technology-based business are invited to refine their skills at Open Pitch Night, co-presented by TechTown Detroit and Bizdom , Jan. 29 at 6 p.m. Those interested in pitching will be entered into a drawing upon arrival. A Bizdom or TechTown representative will draw
ST. LOUIS - Wells Fargo Foundation announced recently an $8,000 grant awarded to Van Andel Institute to help fund the research of rare disorders being conducted at VAI in cooperation with clinical providers of Spectrum Health. The objective of this research effort is to identify causal mutations for rare diseases. Individuals afflicted by rare disease
LANSING - Foreclosures in Michigan during 2012 fell by 23.4 percent from 2011, a national tracking firm said. But the state still had more than 76,000 foreclosures during the year and an overall foreclosure rate of 1.69 percent, meaning Michigan was still among the 10 states with the highest rate of foreclosures. According to RealtyTrac,
LANSING - The Michigan League of Conservation Voters, which endorsed Governor Rick Snyder in 2010 in the Republican primary, gave Snyder a "C" grade for his first two years in office, according to a statement released Friday. The report card is based on Snyder's bill signings, vetoes, appointments, executive orders, permit approvals and denials during
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder signaled he was willing to consider a major change in how Michigan awards its electoral votes in presidential elections by dropping the winner-take-all system for one based on the winner of each of the state's congressional districts. Snyder told The Associated Press for a story looking at Republican efforts to
LANSING - The Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation is strictly a regulator, but the launch of the Department of Insurance and Financial Services is an opportunity to take the lead on some issues, Kevin Clinton, director of both, told Gongwer News Service. But the change will not mean much of an expansion in staff