LANSING - CyberMichigan and the Small Business Foundation of Michigan announced Wednesday the transfer of the Michigan Entrepreneurship Education Network program to SBFM. This transfer comes on the heels of a recent announcement that after eight years of intensive and successful work to meet its original mandate, the CyberMichigan Board of Advisors unanimously agreed to
DETROIT - A quarter of the chief information officers surveyed in the Detroit area expect to hire information technology professionals in the first quarter of 2007, some 11 points above the national average. The most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report shows 29 percent of executives surveyed plan to add staff
LANSING - The Michigan Department of Management and Budget was able to shave more than half a billion dollars from the state's spending last fiscal year with changes in state contracts, leasing and financing. The $500.7 million savings was over the department's targets for the year, according to the department's annual report. "DMB has relentlessly
PLEASANT RIDGE ? Interactive promotions agency ePrize has promoted to of its staff members to the new positions of vice president of strategy. Matt Kates and Sara Kowal will co-lead all strategy efforts including all areas of promotion concept development, research, analysis and program development. Kates joined ePrize in 2005 as a senior director of
DETROIT- Vacant land on a major commercial corridor will be transformed into shops and restaurants, state-of-the-art residential facilities and a thriving gateway to the Wayne State University campus following the Michigan Economic Development Corporation approval for Brownfield tax credits to support the $34 million South University Village project. The Midtown Detroit will feature a $20
RESTON, Va.- During the first 45 days of the holiday season, total online retail spending reached $19.48 billion, marking a 25-percent increase versus the corresponding days in 2005, ComScore Networks reported Tuesday. "Retailers have been aggressive this year with their online marketing efforts, targeting consumers with early-season promotions," said Gian Fulgoni, chairman of comScore Networks.
WASHINGTON-The bearer of the potentially tie-breaking vote on a proposed merger between AT&T and BellSouth said Monday that ethics considerations prohibit him from participating. The decision by Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell, a Republican sworn in earlier this year, is consistent with his earlier inclination to recuse himself from a decision on whether to approve
NEW YORK - IBM is betting on new software to make sense of the reams of data collected by radio frequency identification devices. But some legal maneuvering could dampen enthusiasm for the technology. Big Blue has introduced its WebSphere RFID Information Center software, which is designed to let interested parties-manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and government customs
SEATTLE - A security update issued Tuesday for the Mac version of Microsoft Office was posted in error, the software maker said. The company encouraged consumers to uninstall the patch, which is still being tested. "Due to human error, they were accidentally published to the public Web sites before our full testing release process was
RICHMOND HILLS, Ontario - A recent poll commissioned by Yahoo! Small Business and conducted by research firm Harris Interactive has found that a large chunk of holiday shoppers will be buying their gifts online from small businesses. A total of 2,766 U.S. adults were surveyed to measure the sentiment among the general online adult population