DETROIT - NextEnergy today is one of twenty winners of the $37 million Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge, a Department of Commerce competition launched in May to promote the advancement of 20 high-growth, regional industry clusters. Coordinated by Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, Michigan?s portion of the award totals $2.1 million distributed across five agencies
BATH ? The International Avaya Users Group will host a no-nonsense discussion Oct. 19 on Unified Communications. All vendors will give you their definition of UC and focus on their ?cool? applications ? but no one vendor is best in breed at all elements of these powerful applications. UC can be an effective strategy that
GRANDVILLE - Yes, you can fit a cloud on a USB stick. Founded by several of the brains who conceived OpenStack ? the open source software platform for building Amazon-like ?infrastructure clouds? ? San Francisco startup Piston Cloud Computing has squeezed the platform onto a memory stick in an effort to streamline the creation of
LANSING ? The state announced Thursday its plans for solving the $145 million called for in the enacted fiscal year 2012 budget by requesting state departments develop contingency plans to address the needed savings should union negotiations fail. Reforms announced Thursday by the Michigan Department of Corrections provide $50 million in savings that will be
DEARBORN ? You can register online for the SecureWorld Expo at the Ford Convention Center in Dearborn Oct. 5-6 and get a $100 discount courtesy MITechNews.Com. Just use the code DTMITECH11 to qualify. The annual conference features keynotes from: Bill Muth, who will speak on, "Security in Moving to a Real-Time Business Model." Bill is
SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday unveiled the Kindle Fire tablet for $199, posing a big challenge to Apple's iPad. The tablet will go on sale Nov. 15 and people can start pre-ordering Wednesday. The new tablet, which works off a customized version of Google Inc.'s Android operating system, has a 7-inch screen and can
LANSING - Michigan companies with fewer than 500 employees can qualify for financial assistance for export-related activities through a new export incentive program offered by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. ?Export sales help diversify companies? customer bases, provide longer term stability and can support higher paying jobs,? said MEDC President and CEO Michael Finney. ?This
LANSING - A huge change to how most public employees' contribute toward their health insurance is now law as Governor Rick Snyder has signed a bill setting caps on what school districts, local governments and other public entities pay for their workers health coverage. Under SB 7 (PA 152), all public employers - except the
LANSING - Matt Hill started Liquid Web as a high-schooler living in Holt. The Web-hosting firm now has nearly 300 employees, and adds more each month. Liquid Web is one of mid-Michigan?s biggest success stories. Launched in 1997, the managed Web-hosting company serves more than 20,000 clients in 120 countries. In 2009, it opened a
MIDLAND - A Japanese company has developed a method to turn shredded paper into a stronger, greener paper-plastic composite, and Michigan Molecular Institute is helping to bring the technology - along with 30 new jobs - to Michigan. Tokyo-based ECO Research Institute has developed a process that can grind shredded office paper to the micron