DETROIT - General Motors Corp.'s auditor said formally Thursday that there is substantial doubt the struggling auto maker can remain a going concern, putting an official stamp on the company's dire condition and forcing GM to seek waivers from lenders. The comments came in GM's delayed annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
BURLINGAME, Calif.- Google has turned the advertising industry upside down. Here's something else the Internet giant is changing: Web sites--both how they are used and how Web designers ought to go about putting them together. Chalk it up to another triumph of less being more. The traditional advice about building a Web site was to
LANSING - Michigan Homeland Security Consortium, an industry trade association of Homeland Security companies in Michigan has become a supporting organization for the American Security Challenge, a non-profit mechanism to nurture and fund emerging security technology firms devoted to our national security. "We invite entrepreneurs and security technology companies in Michigan to submit their executive
LANSING - Michigan Homeland Security Consortium, an industry trade association of Homeland Security companies in Michigan has become a supporting organization for the American Security Challenge, a non-profit mechanism to nurture and fund emerging security technology firms devoted to our national security. "We invite entrepreneurs and security technology companies in Michigan to submit their executive
DETROIT - Con Vida, Spanish for With Life, searches the Americas - North, Central and South - for art made by natives, primarily low income folks outside the major cities. Then Con Vida packages the art up for exhibit in the United States and on its web site, ConVida.Org - a different wrinkle for the
DETROIT - Six percent of chief financial officers in the Detroit area expect to add accounting and finance staff during the second quarter of 2009 and 11 percent anticipate reductions in personnel, according to the most recent Robert Half International Financial Hiring Index. The majority of respondents, 82 percent, anticipate no change in hiring. The
GRAND RAPIDS - Supercenter retail chain Meijer will soon expand its green initiatives to include the use of wind power at some of its West Michigan facilities. Meijer received approval to install the wind turbines from the zoning board of appeals in the city of Walker, the Grand Rapids suburb where Meijer's headquarters facility is
ANN ARBOR - Researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a gene that is overexpressed in 90 percent of pancreatic cancers, the most deadly type of cancer. Researchers believe this gene has potential as a target for developing future therapies. Expression of the gene, Ataxia Telangiectasia Group D Complementing gene, called
LANSING - Students would be required to attend high school until they are 18 years old, unless their parent or guardian gave consent for them to drop out, under two bills the Michigan House passed Wednesday on 71-37 votes. Under current law, students are required to attend school until they reach age 16. Proponents of
LANSING - Detroit Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. followed through Wednesday on his threat to veto the city council's rejection of a deal to expand and repair the Cobo Hall convention under a regional authority, but still to come is an expected legal battle from the council. The Detroit Area Auto Dealers Association has threatened to