TROY - ConnecTech, Michigan's premier network for technology professionals, honored individual excellence in Web copywriting, Web application development, graphic design and blogging last night. Winners received a trophy and finalist received a certificate. ?This year?s program really helped highlight the outstanding individual talent that?s right here in our state,? said Danielle DeLonge, ConnecTech Network Manager.
DETROIT - TechTown, the Wayne State University incubator, has partnered with Automation Alley and the Detroit Regional Chamber to office a soup-to-nuts incubation, business service partnership. But with hundreds of thousands of square feet of prime space available in downtown Detroit, and millions of square feet of shuttered factory space in the region, TechTown now
DETROIT - EcoV, a family of electric cars from EnVironmental Transportation Solutions, needs some investors to step up to take these cars into production. In this News Maker interview with CEO Richard Marks, we find out these electric cars, which retail from $10,000 to $15,000, get up to 100 miles on a charge. To listen,
LANSING - The federal government should transfer management of the housing bailout portion of the giant financial bailout package to the states, Governor Jennifer Granholm has said in an interview with Michigan Public Radio. All the states have housing arms of their governments and once the federal government recreates many of the mortgages that now
LANSING - Clerks across the state are gearing up for higher than anticipated voter turnout in the election, by trying to get more poll workers to precincts and adding additional voting stations. Although final voter registration figures for the state are not yet available, the intense interest in the presidential race is driving the anticipation
GRAND RAPIDS - Ray DeWinkle, well know vice president of business development for the Right Place economic development program in Grand Rapids is leaving that job to become President and CEO of GreaterFindlay, an economic development group that serves Findlay and Hancock counties in Ohio. DeWinkle assumes his new post on Nov. 17. "Ray served
WASHINGTON - The state of Michigan will be honored during space shuttle Endeavour's upcoming STS-126 mission to the International Space Station. Endeavour is targeted to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 14. NASA is honoring all 50 states during the remaining flights of the space shuttle, which will be retired in
LANSING - The fifth annual Michigan Celebrates Small Business awards event, the state's premier awards ceremony for entrepreneurs and supporters of small business is now accepting nominations for the 2009 awards. But you need to act quickly. The nomination deadline is Nov. 14. Michigan Celebrates Small Business is a cooperative effort of the Michigan Small
LANSING - Here's a list of the 17 companies that will split nearly $30 million from the 21st Century Jobs Fund. They are listed in order of how they were scored by the screening committee that came from the National Center for Manufacturing Science. Accuri Cytometers, Ann Arbor Life Sciences, $ 1,950,000, Projected Jobs 88
LANSING - Ann Arbor-based Life Sciences companies won the lion's share of nearly $30 million available from the Michigan 21st Century Jobs Fund 2008 Commercialization Business Plan Competition. Final results show a total of 17 Michigan companies will split $29,676,016. Eleven Ann Arbor-based companies were awarded 21st Century funds, with seven from the Life Sciences