TROY - Automation Alley was awarded a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor under the H-1B Technical Skills Training Grant Competition to make high-level IT training available to local partner companies, including HP Enterprise Services and Lakeside Software. Automation Alley applied for the grant in partnership with Oakland Community College and the
CLIMAX - Stephen Jessup, principal of the Jessup Group, is a Battle Creek native who used to travel to large cities for his healthcare accounting business. But when CTS Telecom Inc. installed high-speed optic fiber to a building in his hometown, he cut back on his travel and did more business with his clients in
ADA - Worldwide sales of Amway products jumped 17 percent to a record $10.9 billion, corporate parent Alticor reported Thursday, the sixth consecutive year of growth for the company. The 17 percent increase over 2010 sales of $9.2 billion was driven by broad global growth in sales from Russia to Thailand. The privately held company
GRAND RAPIDS -The U.S. Congress has reauthorized the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs through 2017. Through these two competitive programs, the Small Business Administration ensures that the nation's small, high-tech, innovative businesses are a significant part of the federal government's research and development efforts. Eleven federal departments participate in the
GRAND RAPIDS - This year was a great one for the SBTDC Tech Team. The Tech Team had a significant impact with the many new companies it served, the existing growth companies it supported, and the companies it assisted in finding the financing and resources for them to grow and prosper. The Tech Team surveys
GRAND RAPIDS - The Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Centers had a great year in 2011 serving small business owners and entrepreneurs and creating an impact throughout the state of Michigan. Through its four consulting teams including the new Finance and Strategy Specialists, our extensive market research capabilities, and a variety of other services,
SOUTHFIELD - Secure-24 Inc. is heading to Michigan college campuses to recruit more than 50 IT professionals to fill high-tech jobs and internships at the managed IT hosting company. Secure-24 has already created more than 250 IT jobs in Michigan and plans to create another 250 jobs by 2015. The company?s current college recruitment tour
SAN FRANCISCO - California's Office of the Attorney General has gotten agreements from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard, and Research In Motion to improve privacy protections on mobile apps. The companies will require developers to include privacy policies in their apps so that users will be informed about the data that apps will access, use,
WASHINGTON DC - The Obama administration plans to work with Congress to enact legislation to protect peoples' online privacy based on a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. At the same time, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are committing to work with Do Not Track technology in most major Web browsers so people can stop companies
LANSING - Michigan would be on the leading edge of states if it includes performance measures for universities to see increased funding as part of the fiscal year 2012-13 budget, but it also would be on the low side of the funds committed to that incentive, the House Appropriations Higher Education Subcommittee was told Wednesday.