Events/Announcements

Adtegrity.Com Posts 3Q Profit After Year Ago Loss

GRAND RAPIDS - Internet advertising network Adtegrity.Com reported Tuesday that it reversed a year earlier third quarter loss, and increase quarterly revenues despite a softening economy. Adtegrity.com (Pink Sheets: ADTY) reported unaudited results included net income of $87,000 for the third quarter on net revenues of $3.48 million, compared with a net loss of $986

By |2008-11-11T00:00:00-05:00November 11th, 2008|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Medical Device Maker TransCorp Gets Funding In West Michigan

GRAND RAPIDS - TransCorp Inc, which develops novel surgical instruments and implants, received funding from a group of Michigan investors. But no one is saying how much TransCorp got. TransCorp's new home is the West Michigan Science & Technology offices at Grand Valley State University's Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences. Leading the funding was EDF

By |2008-11-11T00:00:00-05:00November 11th, 2008|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Microsoft Partners With TechTown To Provide Free Development Software

DETROIT ? Wayne State University's TechTown has partnered with Microsoft to help startup companies create software using tools provided by Microsoft. The new program, called BizSpark, is free to qualifying companies in Michigan. Judy Johncox, Director of Venture Development Office at Wayne State, said TechTown was asked by Microsoft to interview and validate the companies

By |2008-11-11T00:00:00-05:00November 11th, 2008|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Michigan, Ohio Congressional Delegations Urge Bush To Help Auto Industry

WASHINGTON DC - Michigan's Congressional delegation, in a message mirrored by the delegation from Ohio, on Monday urged the Bush administration to use authority within the $700 billion financial rescue package to provide immediate help to the Detroit Three automakers. The potential crisis that could force the closure of more manufacturing sites also prompted mayors

By |2008-11-11T00:00:00-05:00November 11th, 2008|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Audit: M-TEC Centers Fail To Deliver On Jobs Creation

LANSING - The 18 Michigan Technical Education Centers operated by most of the state's community colleges have been effective in identifying and delivering occupational training for high-skilled, high-demand jobs, but the schools could do a better job using those programs and the state could improve its monitoring of those centers, an audit released Friday concludes.

By |2008-11-10T00:00:00-05:00November 10th, 2008|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Obama: Survival Of Michigan Auto Industry At Stake

LANSING - The survival of the Michigan-based domestic auto industry, hammered again with $2.6 billion in quarterly losses, is getting top attention by President-elect Barack Obama, who on Friday called the industry the "backbone" of American manufacturing. Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, who was part of a meeting in Chicago with Obama on the economy, said

By |2008-11-10T00:00:00-05:00November 10th, 2008|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Granholm Asks US Government To Aide Michigan Auto Industry

LANSING - Governor Jennifer Granholm said Thursday she is asking for the U.S. government to move quickly on a series of proposals geared towards stimulating and protecting the state's economy, particularly the battered auto industry. She also outlined four priorities for legislative action in the lame duck session that she said would help promote job

By |2008-11-06T00:00:00-05:00November 6th, 2008|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Michigan Voters Approve Stem Cell, Medical Marijuana Proposals

LANSNG - Michigan voters appear to have rejected worries that expanded embryonic stem cell research would lead to both unregulated experimentation and increased taxpayer costs as Proposal 2008-2 has won narrowly. Supporters of Proposal 2008-1, on the other hand, lit up an easy win on their proposal to allow the use of prescribed medical marijuana

By |2008-11-05T00:00:00-05:00November 5th, 2008|Archive, Events/Announcements|