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LANSING - As lawmakers finished their session past midnight Tuesday, Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced she would sign the package of Single Business Tax cuts enacted earlier ? the final proposal is expected to cost $575 million over four years. With her intent to sign the package, 2005 will end with one of the top legislative
ANN ARBOR ? Trevor Jones, Director of OEM Business Development of Thermo Electron Corporation?s Laboratory Automation and Integration Business, has been selected as the new president of Robotic Industries Association ? the trade group?s 17th president, but first one from Canada. Jones, who co-founded CRS Robotics in 1983, succeeds Ǻke Lindqvist, Group Vice President, Robotic
ARMONK, NY ? IBM announced Tuesday that it is launching a new licensing program with the venture capital community and startups as it seeks to populate emerging businesses with its technology. The new IBM Ventures in Collaboration program will give venture capital companies in IBM's partner network and their portfolio clients with the opportunity to
LANSING - Legislative Democrats unveiled a proposal Monday that would extend unemployment benefits by 13 weeks when the jobless rate rises above 5 percent, as well as increase the weekly maximum unemployment benefit to $408 from $362 and tie it to inflation increases. But their Republican counterparts said the package would hurt businesses by increasing
LANSING ? Michigan?s state economic development efforts, including the governor's jobs plan and Republican-led tax cuts, will pay off in job growth, said new Michigan Economic Development Corporation CEO James Epolito - but those new jobs will not outpace loss of existing jobs for some two years. Epolito, who has now been head of the
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has been awarded a $25 million contract by the U.S. Department of Transportation to develop and test a new, integrated crash warning system in a fleet of 16 passenger cars and heavy-duty trucks. UMTRI, along with partners Visteon Corp., Eaton Corp., AssistWare Technology Inc., Honda
DETROIT ? TechTown, the downtown Detroit technology accelerator run by Wayne State University, has announced that it has inked deals with six new tenants during the final quarter of this year, raising the number of tenant companies to 21. ?Our original plan was to expand to 40 companies in 10 years,? said TechTown Executive Director
SAN FRANCISCO ? Both Circuit City and Best Buy are selling $299 Compaq-branded PCs, part of the cornucopia of tech bargains available for the Holidays. But in the case of the Compaq PCs, beware of the differences. While both include an 80GB hard drive and 256MB of memory, the Best Buy machine comes with a
SHEFFIELD, United Kingdom ? Grand Rapids and Detroit were ranked in the top 15 in the 2005 edition of World Knowledge Competitiveness Index released Tuesday. WKCI is the a relative measure of the knowledge economies of the world?s leading regions. Grand Rapids ranked sixth in the latest survey and Detroit 15th, down from third and