ANN ARBOR - AureoGen Biosciences, which is developing a genetic-engineering technology for the discovery and production of cyclic peptide-based drugs, was named the Best Technology Company of 2008 by the New Enterprise Forum. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
DETROIT - If you need to upgrade your technical skills, or you'd like to get them, Pixel It Productions at Wayne State University's TechTown can give you the training you need. One of the hottest new tech jobs in Michigan is doing 3D animation for the burgeoning movie business - says founder Lori Autrey. a>>
DETROIT - What's your carbon footprint? How much greenhouse gases do you burn, or does your company burn. Well Carbon Credits Environmental Services can tell you and also mitigate the gases you do create by planting carbon dioxide eating trees. Carbon Credits is based at Wayne State University's TechTown. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
GRAND RAPIDS - For the past decade, West Michigan technologist Keith Brophy has presented his top 10 technology trends list. This year's list focuses on the growing power of social networking, not as a gossip fence for teenage girls, but as a networking tool for business. Brophy also talked about how the new network computers
WASHINGTON - Governors emerged from a meeting Monday with President Barack Obama pledging to make wise use of the $787 billion stimulus funds coming their way, and to deal with their own problems without waiting for further help. The first $15 billion of that will be released Wednesday to help states with their Medicaid programs.
LANSING - Officials in the state's tourism industry are asking that $90 million of Michigan's federal stimulus money be dedicated to a three-year plan to boost travel. In recent years, lawmakers have boosted tourism promotional funding and the officials want that effort maintained, arguing the investment will mean $253 million in new sales tax revenue.
LANSING - As it ground its way through a marathon session to close a titanic budget deficit, California's Legislature passed that state's first film production credit in an effort to lure production back to the state known for movies. But an official with Michigan's Film Office said the tax break as well as other production
ANN ARBOR - A study released by University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Labor, Employment, and the Economy says that nearly 100,000 Michigan jobs are due to the state's private and public investments in biosciences. And those jobs pay much higher wages. On the average, private bioscience jobs pay a premium wage of nearly
NEW YORK - Cloud computing is the next evolution of technology and capabilities, but it's still in its early adopter phase, according to an IBM spokesperson. IBM and its customers have been experimenting with cloud computing, and while the technology is only now starting to get going, it's generally expected that the uptake in it
STAMFORD, Conn. - With social computing increasingly more important in customer relationship management, it's becoming a disruptive force in the market, stated Gartner. The research firm is predicting that 60 per cent of Fortune 1000 companies will have some form of online community for CRM purposes by 2010. "Social applications offer a great opportunity for