LANSING ? Michigan took some $100 million more into its general fund coffers last fiscal year than expected, and Gov, Jennifer Granholm said Monday she would like to see at least some of that money go to tourism advertising. Granholm announced Monday that the general fund and the School Aid Fund each took in some
FARMINGTON HILLS - The Detroit chapter of TiE (Talent, Ideas, Enterprise) announced Monday that Kanwal Rekhi, managing director at Inventus Capital Partners, will deliver a keynote speech at TiECon Midwest 2010 Oct. 28-29 at The Henry in Dearborn. "Kanwal Rekhi is a celebrated entrepreneur, a well known angel investor in Silicon Valley and a founding
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems, provider of the No. 1 rated manufacturing ERP software, Plex Online, today announced that it was named the winner of the Info Security Products Guide's 2010 Tomorrow's Technology Today award in the Enterprise Management category. The award is presented by the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide. The
LANSING - Michigan could see $792 million more in small business loans as a result of $79.2 million in federal funds awarded to the state. The funds, officially announced Friday, are from a federal program based on a state manufacturing loan assistance program. The grant allows the state to provide qualifying businesses with collateral assistance
ANN ARBOR ? Bank of Ann Arbor's Technology Banking Group will provide working capital to the best and brightest start ups nurtured at Wayne State University's TechTown. "Detroit's TechTown is one of the nation's leading business incubators and an important catalyst for Detroit's new economy," said Michael Cole, Group President of Bank of Ann Arbor's
DETROIT - Do you protect your precious IP without bankrupting your fledgling enterprise? On Oct. 12, at the TiE Detroit monthly meeting you'll learn key Strategic Intellectual Property Management Best Practices, including how to navigate through the dreaded NDA with customers and partners. Before allocating a significant portion of your product or business development budget
MARQUETTE ? Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder said the state's tourism Pure Michigan marketing campaign would be fully funded under his Value for Money budgeting proposal, which would prioritize state spending to those programs that return value to taxpayers and would eliminate the annual status-quo budgeting process that often times lacks rhyme or reason. Snyder
FARMINGTON HILLS - The Detroit chapter of TiE (Talent, Ideas, Enterprise) is bringing back the TiE Women's Forum at TiECon Midwest 2010, Michigan's largest Conference on entrepreneurship to be held Oct. 28-29 at The Henry in Dearborn. Recognizing the economic impact of women-owned businesses, TiE Detroit is organizing an exclusive track for women at TiE's
WASHINGTON ? Loans guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration to small businesses and entrepreneurs continued to rebound in fiscal year 2010 as a result of the successful loan enhancements first put in place under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and extended last week in the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010.
DEARBORN ? The two-day SecureWorld Expo conference kicks off Wednesday with a keynote at 9:30 am from William Hugh Murray, Executive Consultant Information Assurance; Associate Professor - Naval Postgraduate School, focused on Essential Security Practices. The Day One Luncheon Keynote at 12:15pm features Patrick Gray, Senior Security Strategist, Cisco Systems who will be covering Security