LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder's proposal to overhaul taxes through a new corporate income tax and the elimination of several exemptions, like the ones for pension income, will undergo changes in the House, although the exact nature of those alterations remains undetermined, Rep. Jud Gilbert said Wednesday. Gilbert (R-Algonac), chair of the House Tax Policy
NEW YORK - Verizon Communications plans to upgrade segments of its U.S. Internet backbone to 100 Gigabit Ethernet by the end of the second quarter in three segments - Chicago to New York, Sacramento to Los Angeles, and Minneapolis to Kansas City. The upgraded network can offer backbone speeds of 100 gigabits per second, up
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder said the state has made great progress in his first three months, pointing to the legislation he had signed, which includes some dramatically controversial bills, and saying the state was successfully undertaking the process of reinventing itself. But at a press conference he held with the two legislative Republican leaders
WASHINGTON - The number of women-owned businesses in the U.S. increased by a rate of 1.5 times (50 percent) the national average (34 percent) and account for 29 percent of all enterprises, yet only employ 6 percent of the country?s workforce and contribute just under 4 percent of overall business revenues. The news comes from
DETROIT - What will the Michigan innovation, life sciences, clean energy, transportation and information technology landscape look like 20 years from now? Will the area have emerged as an even bigger player in university and corporate research, or a major factor at all in areas like venture financing and entrepreneurial activity - and, if so,
SAN FRANCISCO - Salesforce.Com said it has acquired Radian6, a social media monitoring service, for $326 million in cash and stock. The deal, which is expected to close in the quarter ending July 31, gives Salesforce technology to monitor, track, and analyze social media across properties such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. Radian6, which
SAN FRANCISCO - Phishers use all kinds of come-ons to lure their victims. But one persistent piece of spam tries to trick people by offering an upgrade to Adobe Acrobat. Detailed by security provider Cloudmark in a blog posted yesterday, this type of advertising spam e-mails users a notice to upgrade to the new Adobe
LANSING - Michigan Celebrates Small Business, the state's premier awards event celebrating small business excellence, will recognize over 60 small businesses at the seventh annual awards dinner on April 28th in Lansing. ?Michigan?s economy is built on a strong foundation of innovation and hard working people. Michigan Celebrates Small Business seeks to acknowledge the best
TROY - The Entrepreneurial Initiative of Southeast Michigan forum April 14 will feature presentations by emerging companies selected by a panel of the group's business leaders and investors. EISEM is a series of programs that works to highlight entrepreneurs and their businesses and further develop their message to reach customers and investors. Keynote Speaker: Dave
DETROIT ? Human tissue bank Asterand and its subsidiary BioSeek announced that the United States Patent Office has issued a patent to cover key methods and applications of the company's BioMAP Systems technology. Patent 7,908,089 relates to BioMAP and its use for the classification of clinical patient tissue specimens according to the physiological status of