DETROIT - Michigan's largest native software company, Compuware Corp., on Thursday announced a management shakeup aimed at boosting sales and the company's sagging bottom line, which dropped 10 percent in the third quarter. Wall Street trimmed Compuware's stock price by 4 percent Friday. Compuware said it earned $37.7 million, or 10 cents per share, for
OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill ? Information technology workers are getting little guidance or support from their employers when it comes to career training and education, according to the findings of a survey released by the Computing Technology Industry Association. The vast majority of respondents to the CompTIA survey ? 85 percent ? said they decide what
ANN ARBOR ? The Detroit Institute of Arts's Crystal Gallery will serve as the venue for Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest's Fall Cycle Awards Ceremony Feb. 7, where teams competing in the Emerging Company and New Business Idea tracks will compete for a top prize of $5,000 each. Speaking at this year?s event will be Jan
LANSING - Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, stepping up her criticism of the response by President Bush to requests to help the auto industry, said Friday she hopes to bring pressure on the federal government with the combined efforts of governors of other manufacturing states. The governor told reporters she was astonished at the remarks by
LANSING - There is still a year before Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm hopes to be able to provide health coverage for some 550,000 uninsured residents, but her State of the State address Wednesday left a laundry list of questions for those who might be providing the coverage and those who would have to approve any
LANSING - While many business, labor and manufacturing leaders were critical of Gov. Jennifer Granholm's take on the state of Michigan's economic climate in Wednesday's State of the State address, others were encouraged by bipartisan tax cuts already in play and the recognition by the governor that the state's manufacturing economy is due for change.
ANN ARBOR - SPARK, an alliance of the Ann Arbor IT Zone, the Washtenaw Development Council, the University of Michigan as well as other key academic and business groups, has named an executive director for its business accelerator. Skip Simms, the former managing general parter of Ralph Wilson Equity Fund in Grosse Point Park, assumed
LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm offered a state-run 401 (k) retirement savings plan for workers without that option and a call for increasing the minimum wage in her fourth State of the State address. The speech, emphasizing programs already in place to grow Michigan's lagging economy, also includes a previously-announced health care proposal and more
TROY ? Automation Alley elected six new board members Tuesday at its annual meeting at the Troy Marriott, while Alley officials outlined what they said was a bright future for the Southeast Michigan technology marketing alliance. Newly elected board members include: Brian Balow, Dickinson Wright; Ed Donovan, Flint-Genesee Economic Growth Alliance; Kathy Elston, Michigan Blue
TROY ? Jan. 31 is the deadline for the glima ICE Awards, which honor the best web sites created last year in Michigan. The ICE Awards offer recognition to the best Web sites designed and developed by local interactive agencies. Submitted Web sites are judged by an expert panel according to criteria specified for five