Michigan Snowbirds: Ship Your Car to Florida, Skip the Drive Every fall, tens of thousands of Michigan residents make the same calculation: drive to Florida or find another way to get there. The drive from Detroit to the Tampa Bay area is about 1,200 miles. From the Upper Peninsula, add another 200. That amounts to
5 Best Car Shipping Companies of 2026 Whether you're buying a car out of state, relocating, or heading south for the winter, moving a vehicle has become a fairly common event. The harder part is picking the right company from a crowded field. These five car shippers are all well-established and have solid track records.
GRAND RAPIDS - Artificial intelligence may be powered by software, but the industry depends on something far more tangible: a global supply chain. The servers that train AI models rely on semiconductors manufactured around the world. Data centers require electrical equipment, cooling systems and networking gear sourced from dozens of countries. Robotics companies depend on
Image credit: Unsplash Taking an e-commerce business beyond your home country is a big step. It turns a local success into a global brand. While there's huge potential for growth, the operational challenges also grow. To scale successfully, you need to do more than just translate your website. You have to completely rethink your logistics
Image credit: Unsplash The global shift to clean energy is a huge effort, and technology is right at the center of it. New ideas in software, hardware, and data science are speeding up the move away from fossil fuels. They're making renewable energy more dependable, efficient, and affordable. From AI managing complicated power grids to
LANSING — If your summer vacation seems more expensive, your favorite restaurant raises prices again, or that long-delayed home repair costs more than expected, Michigan small businesses say rising costs are increasingly forcing them to pass those expenses on to customers. A new survey from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) found small business
DETROIT – Spirit Airlines carried more than 1.7 million passengers through Detroit Metropolitan Airport last year, making it the airport's second-largest carrier behind Delta Air Lines. Now the discount carrier is gone. The airline's collapse leaves a major hole in Detroit's air travel market and raises questions about whether Michigan travelers will ultimately pay more
ANN ARBOR — Michigan helped invent the modern auto industry, remains one of America's top engineering centers, and is home to one of the nation's leading research universities. So why isn't the state creating more billion-dollar technology companies? That's the question increasingly confronting Michigan business leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers as states like Texas, Colorado,
LANSING - Michigan’s innovation economy faces a growing competitiveness problem: Michigan ranks 32nd nationally in early- and growth-stage startup funding, according to a 2025 innovation scorecard from Business Leaders for Michigan. Leading innovation states including California, Washington and Colorado have grown their innovation economies at “twice the rate or more of Michigan” over the past
Everyone knows the difference that a manager can have on sales performance. A poor manager can compromise the results of even the most talented sales reps. Great managers help sales reps be the very best that they can be. All too often, we think that poor managers are doing obviously terrible things. There’s also a
