YPSILANTI ? Livio founder Jake Sigal will be the keynote presenter at the 14th Annual GLEQ Business Plan Competition Awards Event June 17 at the Eagle Crest Conference Center in Ypsilanti. The event coincides with the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium, which brings hundreds of venture capitalists to the state for the two-day conference. Sigal recently
LANSING - Toyoda Gosei North America Corporation is expanding in Troy with a $250,000 grant from the Michigan Strategic Fund, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced Monday. The expansion is expected to generate $7.9 million in new private investment and add 51 new jobs. ?Toyoda Gosei is a world leader in automotive products, and this
LANSING - A sales tax increase to finance road construction and improvements would "put a dagger in the state's economic recovery," a letter from the Michigan Retailers Association to Governor Rick Snyder and the Legislature says. The letter, dated Wednesday and signed by James Hallan, CEO of the retailers association, said increasing the sales tax
LANSING - The conference report adopted for the Michigan higher education budget includes a 5.9 percent increase for universities and removes language that would have docked Michigan State University $500,000 for its role in a course regarding so-called "prohibited instruction activity" on unions. Overall, the items of difference amount to about $85.9 million gross (about
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder and Republican legislative leaders came to agreement Thursday on a framework to finalize the 2014-15 fiscal year budget that assures a hefty General Fund commitment to roads and funding increases throughout most of the government. Besides an overall agreement, House-Senate conference committees approved budgets for 11 of the 17 departments
DETROIT - After a strong bounce-back from the weather-induced winter lull, it looks like job growth moderated in May, Comerica Bank said in its monthly economic report. Last month, we saw a very strong 288,000 net job gain in the official Bureau of Labor Statistics report for April. Today, we see a more moderate gain
LANSING ? Michigan Senate Democrats and Republicans are clashing on whether a proposal to increase Michigan's sales tax is the right solution to build funding for roads, and Democrats won't back down on having a solution that includes some consideration for those with lower incomes that would be disproportionately affected by a tax increase. In
KALAMAZOO - Armune BioScience has appointed David Esposito as Chief Operating Officer. In the newly created role, Esposito will be responsible for commercial strategy for Apifiny, an innovative prostate cancer diagnostic assay, and expansion of the company?s sales and marketing efforts. Armune BioScience is a medical diagnostics company formed to develop and commercialize unique proprietary
BROOKFIELD TOWNSHIP - DTE Energy Co. is buying one of two Pheasant Run wind parks in Michigan from a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC. The Detroit-based utility announced Monday that the 75-megawatt Pheasant Run II wind park in Huron County will be renamed the Brookfield Wind Park. Operating since earlier this year, it will
DETROIT ? Registration is open for the Michigan Cyber Awareness Luncheon Series 2014 at the Renaissance Center in Detroit. Program topics include: Let?s Talk Cyber: Is Privacy Dead? ? Interactive Audience Discussion Panel Discussion: Cyber Security and Global Threats: Are We Ready? Special Video Message from Governor Rick Snyder Panel Discussion: Hot Issues in Cyber