DETROIT - The Michigan Department of Transportation and Michigan International Speedway have partnered to work with the auto industry to develop connected vehicle technologies that could create jobs and growth opportunities for the state. MDOT and MIS have entered into a partnership to use and market the Brooklyn-based racetrack and its existing road course to
ANN ARBOR - Join the New Enterprise Forum Feb. 19 as it recognizes and honors the best NEF entrepreneur presenters from 2008 while celebrating 2009 as NEF's 23rd year. This event promises lots of networking with entrepreneurs and investors. The event will be held at the Holiday Inn North Campus - 3600 Plymouth Road, Ann
LANSING - Michigan, and the other 49 states, are moving into the 10th year of the master settlement agreement that allocates money from the nation's tobacco companies to help states cover some of the costs of tobacco-related illness. And there is still a push in Michigan to have more of those funds go to tobacco-related
DETROIT - Wayne State University's TechTown has won a $750,000 grant from the Wayne State University Land Bank to finish the third floor of the TechOne building. TechTown also is hoping to win some funding from President Obama's Shovel-Ready projects to finish TechTwo and build a vertical parking structure to relieve the congestion around this
DETROIT - Detroit Micro-Enterprise Fund is looking for some business start ups to loan money or provide grants to take them to the next level. The Fund also is working with Wayne State University's TechTown to offer grants and loans to tech-based companies. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
ANN ARBOR - LegalEase Solutions, a business process outsourcing for legal services and advice, was named the winner of the fall 2008 Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business-plan writing contest. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
ANN ARBOR - GiftZip.Com, a vitural gift card kiosk developed by a Michigan State University student, was named the second place winner in the New Business Category of the fall 2008 Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business-plan writing contest. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
ANN ARBOR - Diane Durance, the executive director of Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business-plan writing contest, provides an overview of the huge expansion of the contest, and a list of all the winners just announced in January at the Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship in Ann Arbor. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
LANSING - Michigan has a high potential for wind and other alternative energy program and a substantial number of brownfield sites on which these projects could be located, according to a report released Tuesday by the Michigan State University Land Policy Institute. The report, Potential Application of Renewable Energy on Brownfield Sites: A Case Study
LANSING - Legislation to prohibit the Granholm administration from promulgating rules creating mandatory ergonomics standards and training requirements could come up before the full Senate as early as this week after the Senate Economic Development and Regulatory Reform Committee reported the bill Tuesday. As reported, the legislation (SB 93 ) would allow the Department of