Economic Development Southeast Michigan

Creating a presence on Web-mapping services is an opportunity that too many locally focused businesses miss, said SageRock's Joe Abraham. "This is something you can do in an afternoon. It's not a full-day commitment, it's not a week's commitment -- it's a couple of hours. You're at the Internet and making sure you have all the right information for your business sitting in front of you."

Three Success Stories on Quicker, Cheaper Ways to Serve Customers

CompuCredit needed more timely access to information and better tools that its staff could use to make faster and more accurate decisions. The IT team met that need by consolidating credit card databases, streamlining and standardizing data ETL processes, and moving query and reporting activity from the primary Oracle database to a Netezza data warehouse appliance that produces results an average of 150 times faster.

Advertising and Media Executives Join Transpera Team

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Transpera, the next generation mobile video company that helps businesses create mobile video experiences and generate new revenue, announced today that Rob DeMillo and Jody Stark have joined the company as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Business Development respectively. Most recently the CTO of ThirdScreenMedia and SVP of Engineering at m-Qube, DeMillo brings a broad vision married with deep mobile execution expertise to Transpera. Stark, who has closed more than $75M worth of media and entertainment deals in his career will help the company reach scale with top tier content providers.

"Transpera's approach to bringing content providers, carriers and advertisers together for fun, relevant and shared mobile video experiences is the best I've seen in the industry," said DeMillo.

Q&A with Dalton mayoral candidates

They've been trying to merge the building inspector's office now, I think, for seven years. That's a pretty simple office to merge. That shows me they are not working together at all. Sellers: We need to have what I refer to as a community summit on leadership. We need to get the leadership of the various entities — and I'm talking about mayor, city administrator, county administrator, Whitfield County board chairman, both superintendents, both school board chairmen, the head of the college, the head of the chamber, head of the utility, head of the hospital, head of the NAACP, head of ACLA (the Latin American Community Alliance), whoever else — and sit down and say we all have obstacles to overcome, we've all got challenges. Let's talk about what we can do to help each other out.

Wii Won't Budge on Pricing

While its competitors shuffle their pricing strategies to gain market share and push sales for the upcoming holiday season, Nintendo will stand firm at its $250 price point on the hot-selling Wii gaming console. Nintendo appears to have every reason to keep a steadfast pricing strategy -- it's already the hottest seller, it's already cheaper than both of its main competitors and it's widely under-supplied in the U.S.

Varazo Releases Clicksweeper 2.0: A Comprehensive Pay-Per-Click ...

Varazo Releases ClickSweeper 2.0 (www.ClickSweeper.com). As a search engine marketing tool, ClickSweeper has focused on providing automated keyword bidding to marketing agencies, corporate marketers and online merchants. Now ClickSweeper 2.0 allows the user to manage pay per click performance with automatic notification. .

Enterprising retirees work on the Web

These entrepreneurs say the work combines their talents from the corporate world with the leisure activities they want to enjoy in retirement.

"Ninety percent of what we're seeing is people wanting to turn their hobbies into some kind of viable business," said Deborah Russell, the organization's director of work force issues.