ANN ARBOR - The software development community came together last weekend to help 15 metro Detroit non-profits at the first annual Ann Arbor Give Camp. At Give Camp, nearly 100 developers from around the region created custom software to help non-profits solve IT challenges ranging from Web site creation to data management. Ann Arbor Give
ALLEGAN - Perrigo Company, the world's largest manufacturer of over-the-counter healthcare products sold under the store-brand label, announced Tuesday it will invest $10.5 million to expand its facilities at its world headquarters in Allegan, adding 400 jobs during the next five years. The expansion is aided by tax credits approved today by the State of
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
LANSING - Armed with a 12-foot tall effigy of Sen. Patricia Birkholz (R-Saugatuck) as puppeteer to three of her colleagues in the Senate and a 20-foot tall inflatable model of a coal fired plant, environmental groups staged a public outcry in front of the Capitol Tuesday against the Senate's energy plan. Terry Miller, chair of
KALAMAZOO - Pfizer will cut 275 jobs from its manufacturing operations in Kalamazoo County before the end of the year, reducing Pfizer's manufacturing headcount in Southwest Michigan to about 2,500. Company supervisors were announcing plans to workers this morning to further streamline its operations here as part of "ongoing efforts to remain globally competitive," company
LANSING - While there has been a substantial increase in technological innovations on alternative energy, the efforts do not come anywhere near what will be needed to solve America and the world's energy problems, U.S. governors were told Monday at the closing session of the 2008 National Governors Association meeting in Philadelphia. Richard Lester, a