ANN ARBOR - Once again MichBio has received a coveted invitation to attend the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference from January 13-16, 2014. As such, we would like to make some BioConnections for our member companies. ?We know that many don't have the means to attend every business development/partnering meeting out there. So, we'll "take you along"
LANSING - On Wednesday the House Education Committee sent to the full House one of the most sweeping reforms of the state's schools: a package of bills that would affect every school by requiring the retention of third-graders who do not test proficient in reading and creating a letter grading system of the state's schools.
LANSING - Bills regulating how much in incentive money the Michigan Economic Development Corporation can use in its business attraction and retention programs as well as toughening some reporting requirements cleared the House Commerce Committee on Thursday. Several changes were made to the bills. In the H-2 substitute for SB 269 , instead of removing
LANSING - The Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would streamline the process for phone companies to end traditional landline service to customers under certain conditions, changing some wording to ensure the Public Service Commission must take a consumer's complaint regarding service providers if his or her current provider chooses to discontinue that service.
LANSING - The Michigan Business One Stop System, developed in 2007 with the purpose of creating a single point of entry for persons and businesses doing business with state government and streamlining the licensing and permitting process, is in such woeful shape that most state departments don't use the system, according to a scathing audit
NORTHVILLE - Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America Inc. is offering a Blu-ray player for the 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango SUVs. The Blu-ray player is part of the Chrysler Group?s rear seat entertainment system supplied by Mitsubishi. The system features two 9-inch folding screens mounted on the seatbacks and a player located in the
LANSING - Michigan residents are slightly less confident about their personal economics than they were earlier in the year, the most recent State of the State Survey shows, though a larger number of respondents felt they were better off today than a year ago. Most also felt they would be better still in another year,
DETROIT - From January 2011 through June 2013, 44 companies that NextEnergy supported secured $115 million in funding and created or retained 383 jobs, according to a new survey. As a result, those companies also commercialized 67 products, filed 443 patents, copyrights and trademarks and invested $89 million on plant and capital expansions. ?For more
LANSING - The Michigan Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee unanimously approved legislation Thursday that would allow businesses seeking investors through crowdfunding to avoid having to register the stocks sold to those investors. No major changes were made in the S-2 substitute for HB 4996 , which would allow companies to seek up to $1
SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter is beefing up its security to make it harder for outsiders ? read especially the NSA - to uncover data, the company announced. Twitter has added forward secrecy, a security measure that uses temporary, individual keys to encrypt each Web session, instead of relying on a single master key. Championed by