DETROIT - New annual reporting obligations under the Affordable Care Act go into effect for 2015. Although the new reporting won?t actually begin until early 2016, your organization will need to look at (and if necessary, modify) its payroll system in 2014 to ensure that it will be capturing the required information throughout 2015. Information
DETROIT - A National Labor Relations Board ruling that scholarship football players at Northwestern University are ?employees? who may unionize could transform college sports and create an entirely new landscape of labor and funding challenges for school administrators. NLRB Regional Director Peter Sung Ohr said the 85 Northwestern football players who receive grant-in-aid scholarships met
DETROIT - Attorneys and clients seeking the appointment of a receiver often face the dilemma of uncertainty. The process can be riddled with questions: Will the court appoint the requested receiver? If not, will the court appoint a receiver with knowledge of, let alone specialization in, the subject matter of the receivership? Will the court
TROY - On March 13, more than 250 business and technology professionals from across the Midwest came together for the 2nd Annual Great Lakes Business Intelligence and Big Data Summit. The event, hosted by WIT, gave attendees the opportunity to learn about proven best practices, discover the latest innovative solutions, and network with top technology
GRAND RAPIDS - Being merely competitive doesn?t win the race. Grow your business with a compelling customer-focused value proposition! What is your technology worth? Being merely competitive doesn?t cut it. You need a compelling value proposition! A recent technology column listed several new consumer electronics devices coming to market. I?m a gear-guy and a sucker
DETROIT - If you know NextEnergy, you know our core mission is to drive investment and support job creation and retention in advanced energy technologies, businesses and industries. To do this, we often work on what we call Venture Development with start-up companies, established small businesses, university researchers, and federally-funded research, development, and demonstration projects.
LANSING - A 2013 study by Pingdom ? a reputable source monitoring website activity, worldwide - delivered some eye opening news for those interested in technology growth in Michigan. Surveying the world?s top one million most visited websites, Pingdom found that Lansing was hosting the 13th most of these sites, among all of the cities
LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan said it supports legislation that would guarantee 100 percent reimbursement to local governments for local services as part of efforts to reform Michigan?s uncompetitive tax on business equipment. ?For the first time in more than a century, the vast majority of Michigan's small businesses did not have
AFGHANISTAN - Yvonne worked well into the night, using the general?s account to gain the access she needed. She had the IP location in Puli Khumri, but for all she could tell it might be emanating from a house, a hut or even a cave. Without more detailed information she could still only guess. She
ANN ARBOR ? Technological innovation is the most important factor in the future of the world economy and the connected vehicle will be one of the chief beneficiaries. That was the consensus of opinion Feb. 12 when the Michigan Israel Business Bridge convened its February meeting at Ann Arbor SPARK to hear a three-speaker panel