DETROIT ? Ed Deeb, who lead the Michigan Business and Professional Association and Michigan Food and Beverage Association for decades, has been replaced by Jennifer Kluge, who was chief operating offer of both organizations. Deeb is now Chairman, succeeding Lou Vescio, who has served in that position for several years. A Detroit native, Deeb founded
WASHINGTON - The United States Supreme Court said the state of California cannot ban the rental or sale of violent videogames to children. The high court on Monday agreed with a federal court's decision to throw out California's ban on the sale or rental of violent videogames to minors. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
DETROIT - The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation Wednesday awarded nine women in various stages of their academic or professional careers with laptop stipends and scholarships. Now in its ninth year, the competition received 86 applications. This year?s scholarship winners are: Rasmeet Singh (hometown: Sterling Heights) Beth Hadley (hometown: Novi) Erica Green (hometown:
GRAND RAPIDS ? It started out seven years ago as a small event where Trivalent Group vendors and partners gathered to share new products. Last week the Solutions Expo 2011 attracted 325 paying attendees and 24 vendors who paid to display their wares. ?We?ve attracted a great cross section this year,? said Trivalent Group President
ANN ARBOR - Earlier this month, the New York Times reported that as Groupon prepares to go public, the success of its business model is in some question. I took a look at some data from our Top 100 study this year (data gathered in February/March timeframe), and I don't think anyone should be signing
NOVI - KEMET Corporation, which makes capacitors for use in the auto industry, is opening a regional sales and engineering office in Novi to provide engineering and customer-service support for KEMET's growing list of automotive customers in North America. ?The industry is placing more and more emphasis on the development of electric and hybrid-electric vehicle
LANSING - Michigan's 2011-12 budget has been signed into law more than three months before the start of the 2011-12 fiscal year, and in so doing, Governor Rick Snyder called the budget a "major milestone for the reinvention of Michigan." The two bills, HB 4325 , PA 62, which enacts the state's education budget, and
LANSING - Neither Republicans nor Democrats have been able to come up with maps that meet federal requirements for treatment of minorities, members of the Legislative Black Caucus said Tuesday in threatening a federal legal challenge if the caucus' concerns are not addressed. The state has lost overall population, but has seen its minority population
GRAND RAPIDS - MichBio, the association for Michigan's bioscience industry, announced that Kim Popovits, president and CEO of Genomic Health, Inc. will keynote the 2011 MichBio Expo & Conference. The MichBio Expo & Conference is Michigan's largest gathering of bioscience-related professionals. It is set for November 2-3 at DeVos Place in Grand Rapids. ?We?re excited
ANN ARBOR - Building upon a series of successful preclinical and clinical studies, NanoBio Corporation today announced the initiation of a second tolerability and immunogenicity study designed to test and further optimize its novel nanoemulsion-based intranasal vaccine adjuvant. In 2009, NanoBio tested its nanoemulsion adjuvant in combination with the commercial influenza vaccine Fluzone, in a