BIRMINGHAM ? Those that support critical infrastructure like smart grids have begun to realize that they have minimal security in place to counter targeted cyber attacks. NitroSecurity's Eric Knapp talks about how to secure these critical infrastructures in the first segment of a new webinar series called Cyber Defense Update brought to you by IT-Harvest's
LANSING ? A dozen Michigan business incubators will split $6 million in grants from the Michigan Strategic Fund to help launch and grow start-up companies throughout the state. The biggest winners were Wayne State?s TechTown - $875,000 ? Michigan Technological University - $750,000 ? and Oakland County?s Automation Alley - $625,000. Other recipients in order
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation would operate a new $3 million venture capital matching fund for the state's technology companies under a proposal outlined Wednesday to the Michigan Strategic Fund Board. Mike Psarouthakis, vice president of business acceleration for the MEDC, said initial proposed funding would total $3 million, but the hope is
GRAND RAPIDS ? MITechNews.Com is pleased to announce a joint agreement with MIBiz, starting in January 2012, to cover the technology beat for the West Michigan publishing group both in print and online. MIBiz, purchased recently by REVUE Holding Company, Inc., publishes a twice-monthly business newspaper in Grand Rapids, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo and along the
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder signed into law Monday two of the most significant legislative packages of his administration to date when he approved bills addressing the state's debt to the federal government for unemployment aid, restructuring what jobs those receiving assistance would have to accept and overhauling the workers' compensation system. Overall, Snyder said
GRAND RAPIDS - Startup Weekend is coming to Grand Rapids on Jan 13 to the Factory, where entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs can develop business plans in just 54 hours. Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists to build communities, companies and projects. It is known
LANSING - After eliminating the state's lucrative film subsidy and replacing it with $25 million in incentives, the Legislature approved a framework Thursday to dole out those funds, with an extra incentive to hire Michigan workers. Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville (R-Monroe), the bill sponsor, has said the intent of SB 569 is to make
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder signed into law one of the biggest-ever changes to state employee benefits with an overhaul he said would prune $5.6 billion from the state's $15 billion in long-term unfunded liabilities. In signing HB 4701 and HB 4702 , designed to shore up the state's pension and retiree health care benefits,
GRAND RAPIDS ? The good news for West Michigan is for the first time in years the Grand Rapids area will add more jobs, says George Erickcek, senior analyst at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo, who projects overall job growth of 1.1 percent next year, though public-sector employment will continue to
GRAND RAPIDS - More than 20 percent of the 1,400 chief financial officers surveyed for the Robert Half Financial Hiring Index said they plan to add full-time accounting and finance employees in first quarter of 2012. Only 11 percent forecast staff decreases. The resulting net 9 percent increase is up four points from the fourth-quarter