GRAND RAPIDS ? Internet advertising specialist Adtegrity.Com posted a small profit in 2007 after posting a small loss the year before ? after serving up more than double the ads from 2006. The company reported net income of $50,358 on total net revenues of $11.6 million, compared with a net loss of $32,381 on total
DETROIT - Compuware,which makes computer testing, development and management software, on Monday announced it has promoted Robert Paul to President and Chief Operating Officer, effective April 1. Paul currently is President of Compuware Covisint. He will continue to report to Compuware Chairman and CEO Peter Karmanos Jr. Paul will lead the company's worldwide products and
SOUTHFIELD ? IT services company TechTeam Global on Monday announced that Gary Cotshott, a 33-year veteran of Dell and NCR Corporation, has been named President and Chief Executive Officer and a Director effective immediately. In accordance with the previously announced succession plan, Cotshott succeeds William (Chris) Brown. Brown will remain with TechTeam though the end
DETROIT ? A new study warns that unless Michigan starts creating or attracting more knowledge-based workers ? and vibrant metropolitan areas for them to live ? the economic future of the state could be bleak indeed. In its first report card on Michigan's progress in developing a knowledge-based economy, Michigan Future Inc. said the state
WATERLOO, Ontario ? If you own a BlackBerry, you already know this story. Research in Motion, which makes the BlackBerry, experienced a significant outage of its wireless email service on Monday, its second nationwide disruption in the last 12 months. The company notified its customers of the problem Monday afternoon, saying that the outage was
LANSING - Michigan has some terrific assets that need to be better utilized to nurture job-creating entrepreneurs, contends the 2007-2008 Entrepreneurship Score Card from the Small Business Foundation of Michigan. Mark Clevey, foundation executive director, said that the state has thousands of entrepreneurs starting small businesses every year?and they need more help than the state
SAN FRANSISCO - As reported earlier, Yahoo Inc.'s board rejected Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited $44.6 billion offer to acquire the Web giant, in a letter sent to Microsoft on Monday. After a series of meetings over the past week, Yahoo's board determined that the $31 per share offer "massively undervalues" Yahoo. The price also doesn't account
LANSING - Individuals who can establish a legal presence in Michigan, regardless of how long they plan on staying here, could receive a state identification card or driver's license under legislation overwhelmingly approved by the House Thursday ? which goes counter to what the Senate approved Wednesday and bucks the requirements of the federal Real
LANSING - A restrained 2008-09 Michigan budget proposal that still makes some key additions in areas such as education, job training and social services, went before lawmakers from Governor Jennifer Granholm on Thursday and for the first time in several years the administration's proposal was not greeted with outright hostility. Which is not to say
KALAMAZOO ? Entrepreneurs in the greater Western Michigan region listen up. For the first time, Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest is offering its very popular FastTrac TechVenture training program in Kalamazoo. FastTrac can help you make your company more attractive to outside investors. The program was launched last year, but only offered training in Ann Arbor,