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Digital Edge to help MI start-ups network, expand
Putting the right local entrepreneur in the right place in the right time. That's what Digital Edge is trying to do in Michigan by creating the equivalent of Facebook for local new economy start-ups.
Information Evolution
Computer science + design + social science = Innovation. Concentrate checks out the student projects at the University of Michigan's School of Information and witnesses the next evolutionary stage in information technology.
Online Technologies looks to become data storage bank to the world
Storing data is allowing Online Technologies to build up some jobs in Ann Arbor. The data-storage start-up has just hired three, has two jobs open and plans to bring on another two or three people by the end of the year.
MASTERMIND: Linda Girard
Whether it's web optimization or life optimization, Linda Girard has the kind of vision, energy and confidence others look up on Google. Co-founder of the successful Internet marketing company, Pure Visibility, she's translated a Life 2.0 philosophy into Web 2.0 business savvy.
U-M opens newer, bigger nanotechnology research lab
The University of Michigan is already considered essential to the state's economic future, but it's upping the ante by opening a newly renovated and expanded nanotechnology research facility that is expected to increase the estimated $500 million the old facility already contributed to the state's economy.
K-Space to expand into new Dexter facility, looks to add 2-3 positions
Ann Arbor company k-Space may specialize in helping make electronics more efficient and therefore smaller, but it's looking to expand. The firm is getting ready to move to Dexter in May and add two or three new jobs this year.
Dynamic Edge expands in Ann Arbor, looks to hire 6 this year
Dynamic Edge maybe opening up new offices across the U.S., but the Ann Arbor-based IT firm plans to stay put and hire another six people this year.
NextGen Sciences develops drugs, jobs in Ann Arbor
Research is a hotbed for business in Ann Arbor and NextGen Sciences is taking advantage of it. The drug research firm has been growing between 10 to 15 percent each year since its founding in 2001 and expects to create up to 15 jobs within the next year.
Ann Arbor high school senior wins top research prize
If the youth are the future then the future is now in Ann Arbor where one high school student won a $50,000 scholarship for conducting research for a vaccine.
Digital Edge to help MI start-ups network, expand
Putting the right local entrepreneur in the right place in the right time. That's what Digital Edge is trying to do in Michigan by creating the equivalent of Facebook for local new economy start-ups.
Information Evolution
Computer science + design + social science = Innovation. Concentrate checks out the student projects at the University of Michigan's School of Information and witnesses the next evolutionary stage in information technology.
Online Technologies looks to become data storage bank to the world
Storing data is allowing Online Technologies to build up some jobs in Ann Arbor. The data-storage start-up has just hired three, has two jobs open and plans to bring on another two or three people by the end of the year.
MASTERMIND: Linda Girard
Whether it's web optimization or life optimization, Linda Girard has the kind of vision, energy and confidence others look up on Google. Co-founder of the successful Internet marketing company, Pure Visibility, she's translated a Life 2.0 philosophy into Web 2.0 business savvy.
U-M opens newer, bigger nanotechnology research lab
The University of Michigan is already considered essential to the state's economic future, but it's upping the ante by opening a newly renovated and expanded nanotechnology research facility that is expected to increase the estimated $500 million the old facility already contributed to the state's economy.
K-Space to expand into new Dexter facility, looks to add 2-3 positions
Ann Arbor company k-Space may specialize in helping make electronics more efficient and therefore smaller, but it's looking to expand. The firm is getting ready to move to Dexter in May and add two or three new jobs this year.
Dynamic Edge expands in Ann Arbor, looks to hire 6 this year
Dynamic Edge maybe opening up new offices across the U.S., but the Ann Arbor-based IT firm plans to stay put and hire another six people this year.
NextGen Sciences develops drugs, jobs in Ann Arbor
Research is a hotbed for business in Ann Arbor and NextGen Sciences is taking advantage of it. The drug research firm has been growing between 10 to 15 percent each year since its founding in 2001 and expects to create up to 15 jobs within the next year.
Ann Arbor high school senior wins top research prize
If the youth are the future then the future is now in Ann Arbor where one high school student won a $50,000 scholarship for conducting research for a vaccine.
