SAN FRANCISCO - On Thursday, Yahoo! Chairman Roy Bostock and Chief Executive Jerry Yang of Yahoo! sent a letter to shareholders calling Microsoft's actions "stupefying", and tearing into billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, who has been working with Microsoft to push its proposed takeover, for his lack of knowledge of the Internet business. Yahoo!�??s annual
ANN ARBOR - New Enterprise Forum will celebrate summer fun by hosting a panel of inventive entrepreneurs who will reveal how they have capitalized upon unusual or untapped market needs to build successful businesses. The event takes place July 24 at the Holiday Inn North Campus. The participants for this event include: Bruce Fridd -
LANSING ? Economic incentives supplied by the Michigan Economic Development Corp. for 18 projects and companies are expected to generate $231.2 million in new state investment and nearly 7000 new jobs. ?These investments are great news for communities and job-seekers throughout our state,? said Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm. ?The companies that are choosing to invest
MANISTEE - Joan's Company has an innovative green friendly solution to keeping your house warmer in those very cold Michigan winters - solar window warmers. Joan also has other energy efficient and very low cost ways to keep your toes warm as well. Lean all about it in this special GreenTech edition of News Maker
MANISTEE - An Ann Arbor architectural firm is designing the first green-certified restaurant in the United States, complete with LED lighting, eco friendly heating and cooling and much more. Best of all, it's located in Michigan, in Rochester. To learn more, listen to this GreenTech edition of News Maker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com
TRAVERSE CITY - Traverse Angels, an early stage, Angel Investment Network, will hold its first Seminar on Aug. 12. The program will include a business-plan presentation from three promising Northern Michigan start ups. All three companies, based in Traverse City, are currently under consideration, for potential Angel funding. All three companies have been screened from
ANN ARBOR - Intellectual property attorney Chris Mitchell has joined Butzel Long as a senior attorney based in the firm?s Ann Arbor office. He focuses his practice in the areas of consumer products, life sciences and medical devices. Mitchell has represented biochemical producers, manufacturers of food products, sporting goods and building products, food service franchisors,
ANN ARBOR - Data center operator Online Technologies Corporation, has released a new product called MyOTC Customer Portal, which lets customers manage their colocated and dedicated servers by providing remote monitoring and management of their servers. The MyOTC Customer Portal provides a dashboard, making it easy to: manage support incidents and user accounts; monitor data
DETROIT - Financially battered General Motors said Tuesday it will raise $15 billion in liquidity by 2009 through potential asset sales, cost cutting and other financing measures to survive a steep downturn in U.S. vehicle sales, precipitated in part by high gasoline prices. GM also said it will suspend the dividend it pays out to
DETROIT - The tenuous state of Michigan's economy was on full display Tuesday with rapid announcements of an $11 billion Dow joint venture with 800 high-wage jobs choosing the state for its new headquarters, General Motors instituting a new round of cuts that targeted high-wage white collar jobs, 13 companies investing $145 million to create