NEW YORK - Living Cities, a collaborative of 22 of the world's largest foundations and financial institutions, will invest $80 million in five U.S. metropolitan areas ? including Detroit - to create innovations that address intractable problems affecting low-income people. The Living Cities Integration Initiative will provide financial packages of grants, loans and so-called Program-Related
SPRING LAKE - IT Resource, a West Michigan provider of IT solutions and Microsoft Gold Partner, will be hosting a presentation focusing on technology and business on Wednesday, November 10 from 7:30 to 9 am. Attendees will gain a better understanding of the productivity and financial impact that technology has on their business, how new
LANSING - A recent study shows that workers in the high tech industry are acutely susceptible to heart disease and other problems due to the nature of their sedentary desk life. But a new web site aims to reverse this trend. MyMACWellness.Com provides local listings of free and low-cost activities. With an easy, point-and-click design,
DETROIT - The Mobile Marketing Review, a new podcast series dedicated to educating the mobile industry and providing expert advice on execution, effectiveness and mobile marketing best practices, has gone live. Episodes will examine real-life mobile marketing and advertising campaigns submitted by brands, agencies and marketers worldwide, and offer a no-holds-barred analysis of how well
ANN ARBOR ? Listen up entrepreneurs. Today, at 5 PM, is the deadline to apply for the Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest business-plan competition. You only need apply. The business-plan executive summary is not due until December 17. Don't miss this chance to win thousands of dollars in prize money, plus the attention of angel investors
ROCHESTER HILLS - Emission control technologies manufacturer Emitec has signed an agreement with Ford Performance Vehicles of Australia to supply low backpressure catalytic converters for their line of high performance vehicles powered by Ford?s new 5.0L Coyote V8 engine. The new catalyst technology uses a perforated, ultra-thin-foil metallic substrate designed to withstand the highest exhaust
TROY - Automation Alley announced Monday that eight companies from Southeast Michigan will participate in its first-ever domestic trade mission to the 27th Army Science Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Florida, from November 29 - December 2. "The companies attending are a working example of Automation Alley's partnerships of business, government and educational institutions from
DETROIT ? Wayne State University's TechTown will disclose the details of its Thrive business accelerator model during its monthly First Friday networking event Nov. 5 at NextEnergy. "Over the summer, we purposefully turned everything upside down, setting aside the success we've experienced with training hundreds of entrepreneurs through programs such as SmartStart and FastTrac," said
GRAND RAPIDS ? The West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum is meeting Nov. 8 at Fountain Street Church where Liz McCormick and Bill Fluharty will present on a local initiative to explore urban agriculture and regional food systems, the topic recently explored by a newly created open source community learning platform called the Keller Futures Center.
CUPERTINO - A new Trojan horse malware that affects Mac OS X has been uncovered by Macintosh Security site SecureMac. The Trojan is called "trojan.osx.boonana.a" and is being disguised as a video and distributed through social-networking sites like Facebook. The Trojan horse appears as a link on people's Facebook pages that may have the text