GRAND RAPIDS ? Another day, another acquisition for The Iserv Technology Group. This time it was the customers of Dearborn Heights-based Internet Service Provider TodayLink. Terms were not disclosed. The acquisition, done through ITG?s Iserv Company, is the fourteenth, with more deals pending. Iserv continues on its bold expansion to keep its position as one
DETROIT ? Negotiations are underway in the Michigan legislature to restore the nearly $30 million in Michigan Tri-Corridor Funding eliminated last week by the legislature, Michigan Sen. Valde Garcia (R-Howell) said Thursday at the MichBio Expo. Garcia, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development, said he expects the funds to come
DETROIT ? General Motors is pouring on the coals in the development of hybrid vehicles over the last couple of years, GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said Thursday. GM's management has been skeptical about the utility of hybrids given the extra cost, complexity and weight that come with putting gas and electric motors in each
ANN ARBOR ? The University of Michigan Medical School has received an $18.7-million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create a new National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, one of seven National Centers funded by the NIH, and the only one not in California or the Northeast. ?The NCIBI award positions the University
DETROIT - Nissan will take the plunge into the small but potentially dynamic U.S. minicar segment, when it launches the all-new Versa in 2006, a 1.8-liter four cylinder, 120 horsepower car that gets an estimated 38 miles per gallon. Based on the ?Flex-B Platform,? the first jointly developed by Nissan and its French partner, Renault,
LANSING - A $1 billion plan that securitizes the tobacco settlement and gives Michigan some economic punch in the high tech, life sciences, alternative energy and defense fields was given near-unanimous approval by the House on Wednesday. But the first use of the money is not anticipated until some time early next year. The plan
LANSING - Those interested in the House version of the Michigan Telecommunications Act rewrite will have three weeks to have their say before the bill moves to the House floor. Rep. Mike Nofs (R-Battle Creek), chair of the House Energy and Technology Committee, announced Wednesday that he planned two hearings each for the next three
TUSTIN, CA ? As the price of gasoline in the United States approaches the highest levels seen since the last gas crisis more than two decades ago, the September 2005 Fuel Price Impact Survey conducted by AutoPacific shows that many consumers intend to shift the type of vehicle they drive from gas guzzling SUVs and
LANSING ? The State of Michigan has launched a web site aimed at encouraging young people to explore careers in manufacturing, what still remains a lynch pin in the state?s economy. The web site Michigan.Gov/MFGCareers, targets a 12- to 24-year-old audience by featuring techno music, flash animation, a virtual tour of a General Motors plant,
GRAND RAPIDS ? The Core Technology Alliance announced Wednesday that Western Michigan University?s Biological Imaging Center and Biosciences Research and Commercialization Center have become the eighth and ninth technology R&D centers to join the state life sciences alliance. An initiative of the Michigan Technology Tri-Corridor, the CTA provides Michigan universities, private research institutes and biotechnology