ANN ARBOR ? MichBio, the state's biotech trade association, is the latest technology group in Michigan to partner with MITechNews.Com and the Internet Advisor on WJR 760 AM in the co-branded Weekly Tech Update eNewsletter. The co-branding deal covers promoting the 2013 MichBio Expo & Conference Oct. 15-16 at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Kalamazoo.
DETROIT ? Activate Michigan, a entrepreneurial mentoring program offering by The Inforum Center For Leadership, is now taking applications until Aug. 31 for an expanded class in Grand Rapids and Detroit. Activate is for women who have an idea or technology they want to commercialize, or who already have an early start-up, or who want
GRAND RAPIDS - Kent County has expanded public access to the county's Geographic Information System, a spatial data collection system available through the AccessKent Web site. Kent County IT director Craig Paull said the GIS data sets were previously made available only by special request, and typically to engineering firms and utility companies which sought
LANSING ? Detroit and Port Huron will split $1.2 million in incentives from the Michigan Community Revitalization Program for historic renovation projects. The Michigan Economic Development Corp. said the projects are expected to generate up to $7.7 million in new private investment. ?These projects will act as catalysts for viable residential neighborhoods by redeveloping obsolete
TROY - Media Genesis and the Troy Public Library launched Financing Your Future, a website that will deliver money management lessons for high school students preparing for college. The website is part of the Library?s upcoming Financial Planning for Your College Future program. The program will offer sessions covering topics including budgeting and saving, paying
WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency, which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens, has built a surveillance network that covers more Americans' Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed, current and former officials told the Wall Street Journal. The system has the capacity to reach roughly 75 percent of all U.S.
LANSING - Rep. Jeff Farrington, chair of the House Tax Policy Committee, said he expects a vote on the legislation supporters call main street fairness when session resumes, and legislation to clean up the personal property tax changes passed last year has been drafted. When the committee last tried to report the bills (HB 4202
LANSING - A total of nearly $90 million, with $52.3 million going to Detroit, is being distributed to five cities in the state to help raze and remove blighted structures. The funds are designed to help fight crime, stabilize urban neighborhoods and preserve property values for homeowners in those areas. The funds are part of
LANSING - If a Michigan ballot proposal is what it will take politically to advance a measure for new transportation funding, the chances of doing so have grown much slimmer now that one would face voters in 2014, House Minority Leader Tim Greimel says. Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville (R-Monroe) and Senate Minority Leader Gretchen
ANN ARBOR ? Five Michigan companies have received a combined $250,000 through the Michigan Microloan Fund Program to help commercialize their products. Since the Michigan Microloan Fund Program was established in July 2009, 89 companies have received more than $3.8 million in subordinated loans. Microloans available through the Michigan Microloan Fund Program range from $10,000