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Start Garden airs simulcast of San Francisco conference
Startups might want to clear their calendars Monday afternoon.
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Employee recognition company acquires startup
A local employee recognition company has acquired a Seattle-based startup.
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Inside Track: Hope professor spends sabbatical as intern
Ryan McFall, computer science department chair, is keeping pace with new technology at OST.
Open Systems Technologies’ “Intern Ryan” is quite possibly one of the most educated and experienced interns you’ve never heard of.
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What happens to digital assets when you die?
Estate-planning laws have not kept pace with the online world.
(As seen on WZZM TV 13) We have numerous online accounts — photo and document storage accounts, online banking and brokerage accounts, music, movie, eBooks and other entertainment accounts, social media accounts, virtual stores where we sell products — the list goes on and on.
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Why you should read those ‘terms & conditions’ before clicking ‘agree’
Courts are siding with companies that make consumers actively participate.
Earlier this month it was widely reported that a Grandville-based online company called KlearGear had charged a Utah customer a penalty of $3,500 for posting a bad review of the company online.
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Cyber Monday clicks on risk management
Cyber Monday has become one of the biggest shopping days of the year — and a marker of the year-round risk of selling online.
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FoodCircles re-launches charitable app
Progress looks like a reboot — just ask a Grand Rapids entrepreneur.
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Michigan bets on Internet lottery
LANSING — Michigan will sell lottery tickets and offer games online in a year's time — after two companies were chosen Monday to run an “iLottery” billed as a way to help fund public schools and keep the lottery relevant.
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Grand Angels invests in chip designer
Grand Angels has invested in a semiconductor design company founded by a University of Michigan grad.
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City transfers two tax breaks for Precision
Longtime aerospace supplier will take exemptions to Cascade site.
When Precision Aerospace Corp. announced last summer it was leaving its Crofton Street address on the city’s southeast side and moving to Cascade Township, Grand Rapids city commissioners were faced with transferring a pair of industrial tax exemptions they granted the company years ago.
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