TROY - Join hundreds of Michigan business leaders, entrepreneurs, organizations and top growth companies from Michigan's emerging sectors Nov. 17 as they gather for a day of peer-to-peer networking, keynote presentations, informative break-out sessions at the Michigan Emerging 2010 Conference. Michigan Emerging, once known as the Celebrate Michigan Expo, is being produced by Arzika in
LANSING - The top staffers announced Monday by Governor-elect Rick Snyder are Lansing veterans with his choices for chief of staff, legal counsel and communications director having a combined more than 60 years of experience working in or around state government. For the critical post of chief of staff, Snyder turned to one of the
LANSING - Governor-elect Rick Snyder said Monday that he plans to present a two-year budget, one for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 fiscal years, to the Legislature next year. "There's no reason to wait," he said at a Capitol news conference. "We can't afford to wait. Let's get going on this new process." Going to a
DETROIT ? $1 Million Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition Friday announced that it has chosen its 50 company semi-finalists that will compete for cash prizes and in-kind awards of services, staffing and software. The contest received nearly 600 entries, which were split evenly between the business and student portions of the competition. Entries were received from
LANSING - Breaking from its hard line against anything resembling a tax increase, the Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday approved bills that would allow voters in the Detroit area to decide whether to establish a new property tax to fund the Detroit Institute of Arts and increase the existing levy for the Detroit Zoo. The Senate's
WASHINGTON DC - The Obama administration is preparing a stepped-up approach to policing Internet privacy that calls for new laws and the creation of a new position to oversee the effort, according to people familiar with the situation. The strategy is expected to be unveiled in a report being issued by the U.S. Commerce Department
LANSING ? Governor-elect Rick Snyder Friday announced the appointment of William Rustem, owner of Public Sector Consultants, as Director of Strategy in his new administration. Snyder also appointed Ann Arbor SPARK CEO Michael Finney and Central Michigan University Trustee Stephanie Comai to his Transition team. Rustem will help the Snyder administration implement the policies and
NEW YORK - The results of the world's largest website traffic survey have been published in a freely downloadable report, which reports some disappointing results about how effective different traffic-building techniques are for driving visitors to businesses' websites. The survey, conducted earlier this year by website software and training company Intellimon, in partnership with the
NEW YORK - Major websites are moving to limit the number of tracking technologies like "cookies" spreading on their sites, hoping to keep lucrative data about visitors for themselves - and avoid privacy risks. More sites are counting the number of tracking tools - software that can clandestinely monitor people's activities online - that are
LANSING - A total of 4,755 state employees have opted to take the state's early retirement option, officials with the Department of Technology, Management and Budget said Tuesday, and the largest number of those is retiring from the Department of Human Services. The controversial retirement proposal was finally approved at the end of September and