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Podcast 1508: The Red Dwarf, Crowd Funding, Saving The Freighthouse

DETROIT - Saving a Michigan Landmark: The Ypsilanti Freighthouse; Visual Compass the power behind the Internet Advisor home page; Nain Rouge,The Red Dwarf: Great Lakes ComicCon; Joe Bastian is a folkteller who launched a KickStarter campaign to raise $18,000 to produce the first novels in the Nain Rouge trilogy. To listen, click on InternetAdvisor.Net

By |2015-02-26T00:00:00-05:00February 26th, 2015|Archive, Internet Advisor|

Michigan House Panel Readying Film Incentive Cuts

LANSING - Jobs from the film industry may be part-time, but wages generally surpass the average salary and provide benefits for many workers in the state, supporters of the $50 million film incentives told the Michigan House Tax Policy Committee on Wednesday, but opponents said the lack of permanent jobs shows the program isn't working

By |2015-02-26T00:00:00-05:00February 26th, 2015|Archive, Politics/Government|

LARA Fee Increases Expect To Fund IT Upgrades

LANSING - While many of the state's license fees, especially for alcohol permits, may no longer be considered sustainable revenue streams for their respective programs and so need to be increased, a portion of those increases also is expected to pay for IT upgrades, an official with the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs said

By |2015-02-26T00:00:00-05:00February 26th, 2015|Archive, Politics/Government|

MITechNews.Com Wins Corp! Magazine DiSciTech Award

PLYMOUTH ? MITechNews.Com was one of dozens of Michigan companies to win the Corp! Magazine DiTechSci Awards announced Thursday at Schoolcraft College. MITechNews.Com was one of 15 companies named in the Digital category. Nearly two score more companies were given awards in the Science and Technology categories. ?We?re thrilled to win such a prestigious award

By |2015-02-26T00:00:00-05:00February 26th, 2015|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Miller Lite Tap The Future Offers 5 Local Entrepreneurs $20,000 Purse

DETROIT ? The Miller Lite Tap the Future Business Competition will pit five local entrepreneurs against each other for a cash purse of $20,000 and the chance to compete in Chicago against other regional winners for the $200,000 grand prize. The deadline is April 10. Daymond John of ABC?s Shark Tank, pus Brooklyn-based WeDid.It founders

By |2015-02-25T00:00:00-05:00February 25th, 2015|Archive, Entrepreneur Corner|

FBI Offering $3 Million Reward For Arrest Of Russian Hacker

WASHINGTON DC - The FBI is offering a $3 million reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of a Russian hacking suspect, the highest bounty ever offered by US authorities in a cybercrime case. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev is accused of being the mastermind behind the GameOver Zeus botnet, which was used by cybercriminals

By |2015-02-25T00:00:00-05:00February 25th, 2015|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Van Andel Research Institute Launches Interdisciplinary Fellowship Program

GRAND RAPIDS - Van Andel Research Institute has launched the Van Andel Fellows program, a new concept for interdisciplinary postdoctoral training aimed at the very best early career scientists. Those selected as Van Andel Fellows will conduct postdoctoral research on an interdisciplinary project under the mentorship of two of more VARI principal investigators and will

By |2015-02-25T00:00:00-05:00February 25th, 2015|Archive, Life Sciences/Biotech|

Comerica Bank Reports Strong Michigan Economic Activity Continues

DETROIT ? Comerica Bank reports that economic activity increased again in December, keeping the Michigan Index pointed up and to the right, after a one-month decline in October. December?s reading is 46 points, or 62 percent, above the index cyclical low of 73.8. The index averaged 117.3 points for all of 2014, three and one-tenth

By |2015-02-25T00:00:00-05:00February 25th, 2015|Announcements/New Products, Archive|