LANSING ? Last winter?s holiday season brought few signs of cheer for Michigan?s small business economy. The Small Business Association of Michigan?s latest quarterly Small Business Barometer survey finds that only 28 percent of small business owners report sales increases during the 2004 holiday season. During the boom years of the late ?90s, it was
DETROIT ? Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak will be the featured guest at The New Detroit Science Center?s black-tie gala on May 16. Wozniak was the engineering brains behind the first personal computer he created in his garage in California. Steve Jobs, his partner, was the marketing wizard that introduced Apple to the world. ?Steve
DETROIT ? An AT&T insider will tell all about the fall of what was the world?s largest telecom company at an April 21 luncheon presentation at the Southfield Westin sponsored by Detroit?s Public Relations Society of America. Dick Martin former Executive Vice President of Public Relations, Employee Communications and Brand Management for AT&T, will speak,
LANSING ? Michigan?s outstanding small businesses will receive statewide recognition on April 28 as the state?s major business organizations and agencies collaborate for the first Michigan Celebrates Small Business awards. The cooperative effort, which will name the 50 Companies to Watch, as well as Small Business Person of the Year ? is hosted by the
MINNEAPOLIS ? Analysts International Corp., which acquired Auburn Hills-based SequoiaNET.Com several years ago, announced Wednesday it has merged with Computer Horizons Corp. to create a $600 million IT Professional Services firms, one of the largest in the country. The combined companies will be called Computer Horizons. Computer Horizons will employ about 5,000 billable consultants with
TROY - The Raymond & Prokop Health Care Industry Group will join forces with Automation Alley, Beaumont Hospital and WWJ Newsradio 950 to present Michigan HealthTech 2005, A Time for CollaboratioN, May 24 at the Automation Alley Technology Center. The breakfast event will feature an opening address by Dr. Conrad Nagle, Corporate Chair of Nuclear
SOUTHFIELD ? More than four of five Automation Alley Consortium members expect their revenues to grow this year, while some nine of 10 members surveyed describe the health of their respective industries as Okay or Healthy. According to other survey findings, the demand for employees with higher education is on the rise. Sixty-three percent require
ANN ARBOR ? Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest will video broadcast its next panel discussion, focused on the Venture Michigan Fund, on April 21 using technology developed by Internet2, the next generation of the Internet. State Treasurer Jay Rising and Douglass Diggs, director of community and economic development at Detroit Renaissance, will discuss their thoughts, roles
TROY - Automation Alley signed an agreement Tuesday with the Detroit Chinese Business Association that will give Automation Alley Export Center members better access to Chinese businesses. The agreement provides Automation Alley Export Center members with admission to DCBA events featuring visiting Chinese trade delegations, companies, industry officials, as well as political and educational representatives.
LANSING - When the Republican-controlled Legislature returns Tuesday from a two-week recess, it will begin tackling in earnest Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm's sweeping proposal to overhaul how businesses pay taxes. Treasurer Jay Rising, the Granholm administration's chief liaison on the proposal to reshape the Single Business Tax, will make his second appearance before a legislative