Events/Announcements

Video Podcast Interviews Now Available From GlobalAutoIndustry.Com

TROY - GlobalAutoIndustry.com on Thursday announced the launch of GlobalAutoTV, a new Internet-based television network that will podcast in video its content. Rare MEDIUM Well Done will produce video programming. GlobalAutoTV editorial content will include weekly podcast interviews with global experts. The Premier Interview will feature former White House China expert, Charles W. Freeman III.

By |2006-02-02T00:00:00-05:00February 2nd, 2006|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Uninsured Health-Care Plan To Cut Costs, Improve Biz Competitiveness

LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm's proposal to create a health care plan for 550,000 state residents that do not now have health insurance could cut health-care costs and improve business competitiveness, administration officials said during a hearing Wednesday. The program would cover adults with incomes up to 200 percent of the poverty line, which for

By |2006-02-02T00:00:00-05:00February 2nd, 2006|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Photoshop Soup2Nuts Conference To Attract Digital Photo Experts

ANN ARBOR - Photoshop, the popular digital photography software, was invented by former University of Michigan PhD student, Thomas Knoll, whose love of photography revolutionized the medium. In June, Knoll and his wife Ruth, will co-host the third annual Photoshop Soup2Nuts conference, which will attract some of the world's top digital photography experts to Washtenaw

By |2006-02-02T00:00:00-05:00February 2nd, 2006|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Economist: Michigan Should Change Its Tax Structure To Reverse Economic Fall

LANSING - Michigan elected officials should focus on what they can control in the state's floundering economy and change Michigan's tax structure, an economist told the House Tax Policy Subcommittee on Tax Restructuring Tuesday. Testimony by Gary Wolfram, president of the Hillsdale Policy Group, set the stage for further discussions on what the state must

By |2006-01-31T00:00:00-05:00January 31st, 2006|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Interactive Promotions Agency ePrize Lands $32 Million Angel Investment Round

PLEASANT RIDGE ? In what could possibly be the largest angel capital investment ever made in a Michigan technology company, ePrize announced Monday that four Detroit-area business leaders invested $32 million into the interactive promotions agency. The $32 million investment was done by local investors Brian Hermelin and Gary Shiffman, and joined by Livonia, Mich.-based

By |2006-01-30T00:00:00-05:00January 30th, 2006|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Request For Proposals Now Available For $396 Million To Invest In Michigan Technologies, Companies

LANSING - A Request for Proposals was issued last week by the Michigan Economic Development Corp. on the first phase of a $396 million capital infusion into promising Michigan technology and life sciences companies called the 21st Century Jobs Fund. The $396 million has been appropriated for investments through fiscal 2007 with some $100 million

By |2006-01-30T00:00:00-05:00January 30th, 2006|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Venture Michigan Fund Gets First $5 Million Investment

LANSING - The $150 million Venture Michigan Fund, which will invest in Venture Capital firms that in turn will pour money into promising Michigan technology companies, received its first $5 million cash infusion Monday, the deadline set by the Michigan legislature for the so-called Fund of Funds to become active. Michigan Treasury spokesman Terry Stanton

By |2006-01-30T00:00:00-05:00January 30th, 2006|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Feds’ Internet Wiretapping Rules Challenged In Court

WASHINGTON DC. - Universities, libraries and technology companies are asking a federal court to block controversial wiretap rules designed to facilitate police surveillance of the Internet. In a 71-page brief sent to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, they ask the judges to overturn a wiretap ruling from the Federal Communications

By |2006-01-29T00:00:00-05:00January 29th, 2006|Archive, Events/Announcements|