PORTAGE - Manatron, which makes integrated records management and property tax software for state and local governments, on Thursday announced that Elaine Carter has joined the company as support manager in the company's Beavercreek, Ohio office. With more than 15 years of management experience, Carter will be responsible for customer support and problem resolution for
GRAND RAPIDS - The West Michigan private equity finance group called Momentum, founded by Rick DeVos, will be showcasing its latest batch of start-ups at its 2nd annual Demo Day on July 26 at Grand Valley State University's downtown campus. Momentum?s 12 week bootcamp provides web start-ups with mentorship, intellectual capital and pre-seed funding to
LANSING - The anticipated loss of Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentage funds could leave the state with a general fund deficit of more than $525 million in the 2010-11 fiscal year, a memo from the Senate Fiscal Agency warns. The memo based its estimate on the proposed budget that has so far passed the Senate and
TRAVERSE CITY ? Plex Systems is trying to build its brand among auto suppliers and the journalists that cover them at the Center For Automotive Research's Management Briefing Seminars next month. The event typically draws thousands of auto executives from supplier companies hoping to rub elbows with their counterparts at the big automakers, such as
SAN FRANCISCO - General Electric and four venture-capital companies are putting up $200 million to award entrepreneurs for coming up with innovative ways to modernize the electricity grid. At an event at San Francisco, the companies launched the "GE Ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid," a competition designed to cultivate smart-grid technologies, CNET News.Com reported. The
MOUNTAIN VIEW - The stable version of Google Chrome received multiple security fixes earlier this month, including four rated as "high," while the developer's version adopted an interface tweak to create more room for extension icons. Google Chrome dev 6.0.453.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux consolidates the former page control menu into the customization menu
SAN FRANCISCO - So, which is more secure to use, the iPhone or the Android? Neither, according to security experts who say the two fastest-growing smartphone platforms are different but comparable. The main difference is that Apple must approve all apps distributed via the Apps Store, which is the only way to get apps on
DETROIT ? Jack Miner is the newest support leader for TechTown's SmartStart program bringing with him more than 20 years experience working with startups and Fortune 500 companies, most recently in Battle Creek. Miner also manages TechTown's partnership with Hebrew Free Loan, a private community organization that has pledged $300,000 in small business loans for
MANISTEE ? Huge wind turbines could pop up in Manistee farmlands in 2012, generating enough electricity to power 30,000 homes, while employing nearly 300 workers in a rural county hard hit by the recession. Duke Energy of Charlotte, North Carolina, has been quietly contacting farmers in Manistee and Benzie counties to see if they would
ANN ARBOR - Sometimes it's luck and sometimes it's timing ? and yet other times it's the sheer genius of a wacky idea. Join the New Enterprise Forum July 15 to hear from a panel of creative, inventive entrepreneurs who have discovered and capitalized upon unusual or untapped market needs to build successful businesses. Panelists