AUBURN HILLS - Chrysler Group Tuesday announced new incentives to double the federal Cash For Clunkers credit and spur slow car sales. Chrysler calls its newest incentive "Double Cash For Your Old Car," and it can save consumers up to $9,000 toward the purchase of a new Chrysler, Jeep or Dodge vehicle. "Everyone shopping for
SARANAC - NXGen Holdings has acquired 100 percent of Vapor Technologies, Inc.'s common stock for $600,000 at $.02 per share in an all stock transaction. Vapor Technologies is a Nevada corporation that uses multiple encapsulated vortexes to provide pure fuel vapors to gasoline and diesel engines to improve combustion efficiencies. Optimal utilization of the company's
DEARBORN - Technology entrepreneur and investor Rick Snyder, CEO of Venture Capital firm Ardesta of Ann Arbor, officially announced his candidacy for Governor Tuesday morning on the steps of the Edison Lab in Greenfield Village as a symbolic backdrop to his campaign call to reinvent Michigan. The son of a small businessman, and a native
ANN ARBOR ? Data Center Online Tech announced Tuesday that it sold its shared web hosting business to IGD Solutions, a website design, development, and hosting company in Clarkston. Terms were not announced. Online Tech sold its 15 year old web hosting business to focus on its rapidly expanding colocation and managed server business. Over
CHICAGO - Job changes can challenge companies to protect their trade secrets. Scott Slavick, an intellectual property attorney with Brinks, Hofer, Gilson and Leone's Chicago office, tells companies what they can do about it in this special Newsmaker interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
DETROIT - Wayne State University TechTown's SmartStart program is expanding, with two classes already underway and more to follow. To learn more, click on this TechTown edition of Newsmaker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
DETROIT - If you missed the June FastTrac to the Future orientation meeting, you have another chance to attend on July 25 at Wayne State University's TechTown. To find out more, listen to this special TechTown edition of Newsmaker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
DETROIT ? If you'd like your company to trade with your business counterparts in Canada and Mexico, then you're going to want to attend the Trade North America Conference in September at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center. The two day conference, Sept. 9-10, not only includes a keynote speech from former Michigan Governor John Engler,
PHILADELPHIA - Given the unprecedented time required to invest in green technology and the job loss states face, government can and is playing a leading role in enhancing green collar jobs, speakers at the National Conference of State Legislatures said on Monday. Even before the federal stimulus, states took a leading role in promoting green
LANSING - Small auto-supplier based manufacturers looking to diversify into other areas were encouraged to apply for federal stimulus funds for alternative energy manufacturing, Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Monday. The state now has $15 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment which can act as financial assistance to companies looking for expand into alternative and