LANSING For most businesses, the new sales tax laws going into effect September 1 will mean simply more time to file their returns. For the first time, catalog and online purchases fall under the new sales tax, which is an effort to bring the state into compliance with a national streamlined sales tax project. Some
GRAND RAPIDS Metropolitan Hospital and Aquinas College announced Wednesday that they will jointly operate a state-of-the-art energy and education center at Metro Health Village in suburban Wyoming, which will produce electricity for the hospital and serve as a laboratory for students in Aquinas Sustainable Business Program. The 45,000 square foot, $30 million facility gets some
DETROIT - Paul Horn, senior vice president and director of research of IBM Corp., and David Hemmings, president of Pacific Rim Alliance, have been added to the Auto-Tech line up of speakers. The conference is scheduled for Aug. 31-Sept. 2 at Cobo Conference Center. Horn, who oversees the world's largest and most prolific research organization
ANN ARBOR The Ann Arbor IT Zone will explore in September at its LeadershipConnect Breakfast Series the concept of Goal Cultivator Community a group process that helps its members identify their most important goals and achieve them. The series is produced by Robert Pasick, a leading expert in the art and science of individual and
ANN ARBOR - MichBio announced that its BioConnections program placed 27 paid interns this summer at companies in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids and Lansing the heart of the states biocorridor. The group also said it has established MichBio chapters at universities across Michigan. MichBio internship ranged from organic chemistry to artificial lung and
TRAVERSE CITY GLIMA Northwest will host in September what it bills as a big city show in this small Northern Michigan community with its first Fall IT Symposium what the technology networking group hopes will become an annual event. The show will feature two tracks of educational content on such topics as IP Telephony and
ANN ARBOR MichBio, the states Life Sciences trade association, has added a resource locator to its new look web site that Executive Director Michael Witt hopes will get more Michigan companies buying from each other. The resource locator uses an intelligent search engine that lets users find both companies and resources. The new element has
LANSING Through the federal Help America Vote Act, Michigan will receive $28 million to revamp the state's voting systems, which will include optical scan technology as the states uniform voting system. President Bush signed HAVA into law in 2002 and the federal government has committed $3.4 billion for states over the next three years. The
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - Logicalis, an international IT integration company, has acquired for $90 million Solution Technology, a privately held IBM solution provider and one of IBM's top 10 Business Partners. The company will remain in Michigan. Under the agreement, Solution Technology of Boca Raton, FL, will operate as a subsidiary of Logicalis until the end
TROY InternetTroy is once again calling for nominations to its Helen E-wards of Excellence, the fifth year this web development contest has been hosted by the Troy Chamber of Commerce. Seven awards are up for grabs in a competition that drew more than 200 entries last year. Past winners have included ArvinMeritor, Beaumont Hospital, DaimlerChrysler,