LANSING - Legislation that auto executives say could drive significant high-tech investment sailed through the Michigan House Commerce Committee Tuesday. The two bills, HB 6034 and HB 6035, would expand the eligibility pool for the Michigan Economic Growth Authority Act (MEGA) by including high-tech facilities of traditional businesses and companies that don't directly employ those
GRAND RAPIDS ? Internet advertising specialist Adtegrity.Com reported a small net profit for the first quarter, compared with a small net loss a year ago. Adtegrity reported net income of $9,004 on net revenues of $2.1 million for the first quarter, compared with a net loss of $40,400 on net revenues of $1.4 million for
DETROIT - AT&T Chairman Edward Whitacre, during a keynote address to the Detroit Economic Club on Monday, announced the former SBC will spend billions of dollars over the next several years to bring broadband Internet service to rural areas and to low-income households. Whitacre also said AT&T will bring WiMAX and other fixed wireless technologies
KALAMAZOO - An Emmy-winning animator will plot the inroads that his craft is making in becoming a key component of contemporary business in a KVCC seminar slated for May 18. The New Core Business Function: Animation will be presented by Dale Myers, who won the national award for his animated recreation of the assassination of
NEW YORK ? The Detroit metropolitan area was ranked No. 59 as one of Inc. magazine?s 2006 list of Best Large Cities to do Business, while Ann Arbor, metro Grand Rapids, Lansing and Flint cracked the Top 100 for medium-sized markets. The best small cities included Muskegon, Kalamazoo, Holland, Niles-Benton Harbor, Monroe, Jackson, and Bay
DEARBORN - The Detroit Regional Chamber, Automation Alley and the Michigan Economic Development Corp. are again teaming up in September to offer the second Michigan Technology Conference at the Ford Conference Center. The sessions on Sept. 9 will focus on the 21st Century Job Fund, New Media Marketing, and the broad impact that technology developed
LANSING - Backers of a drive to move up the repeal of the Single Business Tax will have collected 200,000 signatures sometime this week, or about two-thirds of the number they hope to submit to the state by May 31, Oakland County Executive Brooks Patterson said Monday. But Patterson said the drive is running thin
SOUTHFIELD - Newly created professional support organization, Michigan Survives, is hosting an evening seminar Wednesday at Lawrence Technological University that will teach out of work Michigan professionals how to develop winning career plans and maybe find a new job here, rather than out of state. Develop THE Winning Career Plan's goal is to develop a
LANSING - Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos said Tuesday the majority of the $1.9 billion the state would lose by repealing the single business tax would come from new simpler and fairer business taxes. The rest, he said, would come from growth and unspecified cuts in the state budget. But responding to questions posed to
LANSING - The governor should have the authority to roll back the sales tax on gasoline if the state is reaping windfall revenues due to high prices, Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Tuesday. But while she tied such rollbacks to overall state sales tax revenues, Dick DeVos, her Republican challenger, said he favors an immediate move