LANSING - After getting a late start on implementation, the Department of Treasury is on track to have annual Michigan Business Tax forms ready this fall, the Senate Finance Committee was told Thursday. But being able to meet all deadlines for companies to file their annual returns for the new tax will depend on the
LANSING - A newly passed law requires private detectives and investigators to be licensed by the State of Michigan. In addition to traditional "gumshoes," the law also applies to those engaged in investigating "computer forensics" such as the consultant your organization might retain to assist you in the event of a network security breach. The
LANSING - Most construction firms surveyed said they expect to pay higher taxes under the new Michigan Business Tax, with nearly half of those surveyed saying the increase could be as much as 50 percent more than they would have paid under the now-defunct Single Business Tax. The information comes from the Associated Builders and
DETROIT - General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Chrysler take note. On Sunday, Honda begun the first commercial production of a hydrogen fuel cell-powered car that gets the equivalent of 74 miles per gallon and its only byproduct is steam. The car will only be offered initially in California and Japan. The four-door sedan, called
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Microsoft Corp. abandoned its pursuit of Yahoo Inc., opening the way for Yahoo to complete a search-advertising pact with rival Google Inc. that pits the industry's two biggest forces against Microsoft. Microsoft told Yahoo that it was no longer interested in pursuing a takeover, even at the $33 a share it
HOLLAND ? If you're a mid level technology professional working in software applications and you're looking for a job, you'll be in luck during the second half of 2008, the latest Paragon Recruiting semi-annual Western Michigan IT hiring forecasts predicts. Only manufacturing companies have shown a steady increase in information technology hiring over the five
ANN ARBOR - OcuSciences, an Ann Arbor technology start up, has won the $25,000 Grand Prize in the Emerging Company category of the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest. The awards ceremony was Thursday night in Lansing. OcuSciences was co-founded by Drs. Victor Elner and Howard Petty from the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center and has
ANN ARBOR - The Frankel Commercialization Fund, a student-managed angel capital seed fund at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, has announced its second investment - $71,000 to BeholzTech a company founded in Flint by Lars Beholz, a visiting associate professor of chemistry at Kettering University. BeholzTech's technology effectively coats polyolefin plastics, making
LANSING - Michigan's new business tax is complicated with a number of provisions that are detrimental to businesses, and not enough information has been distributed to this point so that many companies don't even know about credits that will help offset the tax burden, said a report of a subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee
BOSTON- Google sees all enterprise trends pointing toward cloud computing, and it wants a piece of the action. "The next 10 years of innovations are going to be in the cloud. Enterprise software is not going away, but there is a transition taking place," Rishi Chandra, product manager for Google Enterprise, told CNET News.Com. Chandra,