LANSING - There are plenty of happy holiday myths: Santa Claus, elves, flying reindeer, toys that come fully assembled. Now you can add "Cyber Monday" to that end-of-year fantasy list. Another year has come and gone and, as many predicted, by late in the day on the West Coast, Cyber Monday appeared to be just
LANSING - The Granholm administration will formally outline its proposed rewrite of the Single Business Tax on Wednesday in briefings to reporters and in a presentation to Senate Finance Committee. Meanwhile, Senate Majority Ken Sikkema (R-Wyoming), who expressed a willingness to work on the SBT but also wants changes in school health care provisions, said
CLEVELAND ? The Ann Arbor, Detroit region?s reputation as a source of quality health care investment deals improved in 2006, a new study by BioEnterprise indicates. The study also ranks the Midwest highly for medical device opportunities, average for health care services and software, and weak for biopharmaceuticals. Among investors active in biopharmaceutical investments, Minneapolis
LANSING ? New cable TV legislation could promise to be among the most contentious of the lame duck session as it moves forward for review by the Michigan Senate Technology and Energy Committee, which has scheduled a Wednesday meeting to discuss HR 6456. Meanwhile, Google ran a full-page advertisement in some newspapers saying the bill
FLINT - Kettering University in Flint will offer graduate-level services at Grand Rapids Community College in early 2007 to help working professionals complete their master's degrees in Management, Information Technology, Manufacturing and Engineering. The deadline to apply is Dec. 11. The GRCC Library and Assessment Center will be a distribution point for exam proctoring and
HOLLAND ? The overall trend in West Michigan technology staffing for the first half of 2007 looks very much as it did a year ago with about one-third of employers increasing staff. The big change is very different industries now account for the new hiring plans. More than twice as many of the education/government respondents
SAN FRANCISCO - eBay was the online winner this "Black Friday," data published on Saturday showed, but overall Internet traffic growth was well below last year's even as bargain hunters tracked down sought-after toys and electronics on the Web before Cyber Monday. Overall traffic to the Nielsen/Net Ratings Holiday eShopping Index, which tracks more than
DETROIT - Remember TH!NK, the electric city car project bought by Ford then unceremoniously dumped as part of the cost-cutting? It's set to ride again next year with an all-new design and improved usability. Development work on the Norwegian runabout is due for completion soon, The Car Connection.Com reported. Ford is currently recruiting for virtually
LANSING ? If you?re a technology professional in mid Michigan looking for a job, check out the Information Technology Employer Expo Nov. 30 at the Lansing Center in downtown Lansing. It?s sponsored by Capital Area Michigan Works and LINC, an IT Development Association. "Get Connected" with more than 100 technology jobs at great companies that
LANSING - All 17 members of Michigan's congressional delegation have signed a letter to President Bush urging him to address issues they contend are critical to the success of the nation's auto industry ? and by extension, Michigan's economy. Praising the meeting Mr. Bush held last week with the chief executives of General Motors, Ford