LANSING - Just four years ago, campaigns were on the cutting edge with web pages and email. By 2004, serious candidates had to add blogs to their efforts. Now in 2006, any campaign limited to just web pages, email and blogs is practically 20th Century. In four years the technologies of communication, and thus campaigning,
LANSING ? Chris Holman, Mr. Lansing business, will emcee an open house on Oct. 17 for ACD, which opens its new data center in the Metro Internet Exchange building, making it one of the biggest in mid Michigan. Also in the bill are Three Men and a Tenor and Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero. Michigan Gov.
DETROIT - Shares of Compuware Corp. have been trading lower since the information technology provider said it issued estimates for second-quarter profit and revenue that fall below Wall Street predictions. Compuware's shares fell by a quarter on Thursday when the news was announced, and have been hovering from $7.80 to $7.60 a share since. Michigan?s
LANSING - Michigan is gaining the high-skill, high-education jobs state officials have been hoping to attract, according to a study released Thursday by Public Policy Associates Incorporated. Doug Drake, a consultant with the Lansing-based public policy firm and former director of the Office of Revenue and Tax Analysis in the Department of Management and Budget,
SEATTLE - After fixing some initial glitches, Microsoft said the patches released on Tuesday will now be delivered to users of its automated services. When the software maker released the 10 patches on Tuesday, the only way people could get them was to manually download them, CNET News.Com reported. The company said that was due
GRAND RAPIDS ? Van Andel Institute and Michigan State University on Wednesday signed a medical education and research collaboration agreement that will help bring a four-year medical school to Grand Rapids and commercialize biomedical discoveries and treatments. The agreement was signed by VAI Chairman and CEO David Van Andel and MSU President Lou Anna Simon
ANN ARBOR - Biotechnology Business Consultants and the eleven Michigan Smart Zones are partnering to educate Michigan small technology businesses about the $2 billion plus awarded annually by the federal government through the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. The Smart Zone Road Show is an intense one-week tour to many
KALAMAZOO ? Government software specialist Manatron Monday that its Board of Directors authorized the purchase of up to $1 million of the Company's stock during the next 12 months, or about 3 percent of the current market value of Manatron's 5.1 million share outstanding. The new plan replaces the previous repurchase plan announced September 13,
LANSING - Adding flame to an already heated issue, Gov. Jennifer Granholm used her weekly radio address Friday to call on the Legislature to repeal the state's bans on stem cell research. Noting recent support from boxing legend and southwest Michigan resident Muhammad Ali, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, Granholm urged residents to sign her
ANN ARBOR ? Some 131 pieces of equipment worth more than $655,000 have been awarded to 18 companies in Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, Mt. Pleasant ad Oakland County from the Michigan Innovation Equipment Depot, a surplus equipment depot created last month through a million-dollar donation by Pfizer. The winners were selected from 25 applicants by Ann