LANSING - Bonding is on its way to becoming the regular way of paying for environmental projects in the state, with Gov. Jennifer Granholm poised to request more funding for the Clean Michigan Initiative on the November ballot. Funds for the Clean Michigan Initiative run out this fiscal year and Environmental Quality Director Steven Chester
BLOOMFIELD HILLS ? John Bamberger, founder of SequoiaNET.com, and former chief operating officer of the company it was sold to, Analysts International, has been hired by gloStream as its chief channel officer. gloStream is an electronic health records software and practice management solutions provider. He is charged with guiding gloStream's delivery and support model via
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ANN ARBOR ? Randal Charlton, Director of Wayne State University's TechTown, was named 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year by the New Enterprise Forum on Thursday night at an awards gala honoring some of the best start ups from a year ago. Other award winners include: Best New Product of 2007: GeneVivo. Sean Ainsworth, CEO, accepted
REDMOND, Wa. - List of applications affected by service pack installation include Trend Micro's Internet Security 2008 and the Times Reader. Microsoft has published a list of programs that will not work or that will suffer from reduced functionality after the installation of Vista Service Pack 1, CNET News.Com reported. The list of programs consists
MIDLAND ? Michigan has yet another angel investing group, the Blue Water Angels, which has more than $1 million to invest in promising Michigan start ups. Blue Water Angels works closely with the MidMichigan Innovation Center. At the Feb. 12 meeting, the groups first board was elected. Brent Case, executive director of the MidMichigan Innovation
LANSING - Michigan could not adopt rules creating workplace ergonomic standards if a bill passed by the Senate, SB843, approved on a 21-17 straight party line vote Wednesday, becomes law. The bill seeks to shortchange discussions that have been ongoing for some years on developing a proposal that would set standards on ergonomic furniture and
LANSING - The old ways of educating students to get them ready to be good worker bees in factories and offices is rapidly changing in Michigan, a new report shows. Some 82 percent of postsecondary institutions in the state are now offering courses to train the next generation of entrepreneurs. The Michigan Entrepreneurship Education Benchmarking
ANN ARBOR - Customer satisfaction with the eCommerce sector hit an all-time high, outperforming all other service industries. The results were contained in the American Customer Satisfaction Index, released Tuesday by the University of Michigan with e-commerce partner ForeSee Results. E-commerce in aggregate rises to a score of 81.6 on the ACSI's 100-point scale, a
KALAMAZOO ? The deadline to apply for the FastTrac TechVenture training program scheduled at Southwest Michigan First is Friday Feb. 22 ? the first time Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest has offered this intensive business-plan training program on the West side of the state. The program was launched last year, but only offered training in Ann