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Home Office Market To Add 5 Million Home, Biz Customers By 2015

FRAMINGHAM - The home office market will add nearly 2 million home-based businesses and more than 3 million corporate home office households between 2011 and 2015, a new report shows. According to a recent International Data Corporation (IDC) forecast, as the home office household landscape continues to change, so too does the type of technologies

By |2011-03-20T00:00:00-04:00March 20th, 2011|Archive, Events/Announcements|

AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile USA For $39 Billion

NEW YORK - In a blockbuster mobile deal, AT&T announced Sunday it had agreed to acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. The acquisition will bolster AT&T's dominance with the addition of more than 33 million subscribers to its 95.5 million customer user base, giving it a new total of more than 129

By |2011-03-20T00:00:00-04:00March 20th, 2011|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Michigan Teachers Union Asks Members For Strike Authority

LANSING - The Michigan Education Association has asked its local members to vote on giving the MEA authority to initiate "crisis activities" including "job actions" that might mean a work stoppage. MEA spokesperson Doug Pratt said Thursday that the move comes in response to actions in the Legislature. "MEA will not stand silent while Michigan's

By |2011-03-18T00:00:00-04:00March 18th, 2011|Archive, Events/Announcements|

VAI Researchers Find Vitamin A Plays Direct Role In Physiological Functions

GRAND RAPIDS - In a recently-published study mapping the structure and function of the so-called orphan nuclear receptor TR4, Van Andel Research Institute investigators suggest that Vitamin A may play a more direct role than was previously known in certain physiological functions including sperm cell formation and the development of the central nervous system. Scientists

By |2011-03-18T00:00:00-04:00March 18th, 2011|Archive, Life Sciences/Biotech|

Item-Pricing Repeal To Take Effect September 1

LANSING - An agreement to wait until September 1 for the repeal of the state's item-pricing requirement to take effect ensured enough votes to resolve a mini-standoff on the bill in the Senate and send it to Governor Rick Snyder. Twice, the Senate had fallen one vote short of the two-thirds majority necessary to give

By |2011-03-18T00:00:00-04:00March 18th, 2011|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Kauffman Study Shows Biz Accelerator Nework Creating Jobs, Investments

DETROIT ? A study by the Kauffman Foundation says the Business Accelerator Network for Southeast Michigan has created more than 1,000 jobs and invested about $18 million in hundreds of start-ups, while leveraging more than $101.2 million in additional outside financing. The Network consists of Ann Arbor SPARK, Automation Alley, Macomb-OU INCubator and Wayne State?s

By |2011-03-18T00:00:00-04:00March 18th, 2011|Archive, Entrepreneur Corner|

Wayne State Launches Detroit Revitalization Fellows Program To Renew City

DETROIT - Wayne State University announced Tuesday the launch of the Detroit Revitalization Fellows Program, combining two years of full-time employment with executive development education, to help renew Detroit. The deadline to apply is April 15. With initial support from The Kresge Foundation and the Hudson-Webber Foundation, and potential support from foundation partners, the fellows

By |2011-03-15T00:00:00-04:00March 15th, 2011|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Airfoil Account Director Named Chair 2011 Tech Pro Interest Section At PRSA

SOUTHFIELD - Airfoil Public Relations Tuesday announced that Account Director Kevin Sangsland has been elected by his peers to chair the 2011 Technology Professional Interest Section of The Public Relations Society of America. In this role, Sangsland will be responsible for leading PRSA?s National Technology Executive Committee efforts to serve its members, recruit and develop

By |2011-03-15T00:00:00-04:00March 15th, 2011|Announcements/New Products, Archive|