TROY - Preserving and protecting your corporate assets, including confidential information, customer relationships and trade secrets, is critical. At a morning-long seminar on March 9, Butzel Long's Intellectual Property attorneys will teach your company how to protect your most valuable assets in the digital age. Butzel IP attorneys Carey DeWitt, James Giszczak, Phillip Korovesis, Theresa
ANN ARBOR - Talking to passengers while driving may be just as dangerous for drivers as talking on a cell phone, a new study from the University of Michigan contends. The study, by the U-M Transportation Research Institute, shows that drivers who have conversations with passengers exhibit similar levels of driving performance as drivers who
SOUTHFIELD ? Health-care providers trying to meet tough new HIPPA security standards that require them to protect confidential patient information, yet find ways to cut growing IT costs, now have a way to do both through a new product partnership between CA and Carefx. On Monday, CA announced an agreement to package Carefx's Fusion software
KALAMAZOO - Southwest Michigan First has revamped its popular Venture Tuesday programs, where start up life sciences companies pitch potential investors, to every other month and by invitation only - some of the changes that have taken place since new CEO Ronald Kitchens took over last summer. Kitchens said the format change came about after
DETROIT ? IABC/Detroit has issued a call for entries for its Renaissance Awards, part of its silver anniversary celebration. The competition is open to IABC members and non-members, who work in the communications, marketing, public relations, and graphic design arenas in southeast Michigan, northwest Ohio and southwest Ontario. This year?s program includes more than 30
LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm demanded the Michigan Legislature close tax loopholes as part of any package to cut taxes for small businesses. Asked to respond to GOP criticism that it was ironic she was asking for federal assistance to manufacturers after just vetoing additional tax cuts, Ms. Granholm said: "I find an incredible amount
LANSING - The chief operating officer for the Michigan Broadband Development Authority said Wednesday that while the agency had made cutbacks to its staff in the recent months, the authority would like to follow through with awarding its remaining $17 million in grants, primarily to smaller rural projects. During the House Energy and Technology Committee
ANN ARBOR ? North American robotics companies posted record new orders in 2005, surpassing its previous high set in 1999, new statistics released by Robotic Industries Association show. Michigan?s auto industry is the primary user of robotic technology in the United States. A total of 18,228 robots valued at $1.16 billion were ordered by North
SAN DIEGO - Ardesta CEO Rick Snyder, who helped take Gateway Computer public 15 years ago, was named on Thursday as interim CEO of Gateway after former chief executive Wayne Inouye resigned. Inouye, who became CEO after Gateway's acquisition of eMachines in 2004, left "to pursue other interests," he said in a statement. Gateway declined
ANN ARBOR - The deadline to get an application to become one of 45 technology companies to pitch hundreds of potential investors attending the 2006 Michigan Growth Capital Symposium is Feb. 28, with a final submission deadline of March 14. Companies in the life sciences, information technology, and alternative energy industries are encouraged to apply.