LANSING - Governor Jennifer Granholm Thursday announced an upcoming conference with Japanese officials to discuss the importance of economic development, and also to share mutual efforts to promote more investment and job creation both in Michigan and Japan. The 42nd Annual Midwest U.S.-Japan Association Conference will be held September 12 -14 at the Renaissance Center
SOUTHFIELD - The Great Lakes Chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, the Great Lakes Entrepreneurs' Quest, and TiE Detroit brings you the 2010-2011 Savvy Entrepreneur series. The series provides early to mid-stage technology entrepreneurs with guidance on key topics that all startups must navigate to realize success. Bring your best questions and thorniest challenges to
DETROIT ? Wayne State University and TechTown, its business incubator, are hosting for the sixth year the E2 Detroit networking event. This year's theme is The Lean Launch: Creating a Business in a Down Economy. The all-day event will bring together entrepreneurs, business leaders, authors, investors and others for networking. Keynote speakers and workshops will
ANN ARBOR - Lunch Ann Arbor Marketing (LA2M) has released its official Fall speaker lineup, and with a wide range of topics relating to digital and interactive marketing, it's gearing up to be a dynamic season. The LA2M Fall series kicks off, Wednesday, September 8th, with an Internet marketing theme that looks at Facebook Advertising,
NEW YORK - A new August online survey conducted by Harris Interactive (in the U.S.) and Opinion Matters (in the UK) detailing workers' views on work email leads to a conclusion that the typical 9-5 work day no longer exists as workers in America and the U.K. regularly check email outside of normal business hours,
STAMFORD, Conn. - Worldwide semiconductor revenue in 2010 is forecast to reach $300 billion, a 31.5 percent increase from 2009 revenue of $228 billion, according to the latest outlook by analyst firm Gartner. Analysts project worldwide semiconductor revenue to total $314 billion in 2011, a 4.6 percent increase from 2010. The projected 2010 revenue for
SAN FRANCISCO - With 2010 in its' last third, PandaLabs, Panda Security's anti-malware laboratory, has released a ranking of the most widespread scams on the Web from the past 10 years. These include the infamous Nigerian scam, ploys involving beautiful foreign women and money mule schemes based on too-good-to-be-true job offers. "As with all the
LANSING - An agreement in principle to resolve the 2009-10 and 2010-11 fiscal year budgets, including legislation designed to encourage the retirement of state employees as a way to save money, was reached Tuesday. The framework remained tentative with legislative leaders wanting to run the plan, as agreed to with Governor Jennifer Granholm, by their
GRAND RAPIDS ? Dematic is offering a series of Warehouse Logistics Conferences focused on the operation and maintenance of material handling systems in the warehouse and distribution center. The conference will offer presentations on how to improve the performance of automated/mechanized material handling technology, controls and software, as well as increase warehouse operational performance and
ANN ARBOR - The Association for Women in Computing-Ann Arbor on Sept. 14 will take a look at pair programming, an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together at one work station. The presenters are Kealy Opelt & Ted Layher of Menlo Innovations. Many agile programmers see pair programming as too hard