LANSING - If Michigan lawmakers can beat other Midwest states in the race to approve renewable energy portfolio standards, it can provide the incentive for alternative energy manufacturers to set up shop in the state, bringing up to 35,000 jobs with them, said a report released on Wednesday from the Blue Green Alliance, a partnership
TRAVERSE CITY - On Tuesday, at the Traverse City Business Expo, Traverse Angels officially opened its doors for business. The private equity finance group is looking for fundable comapanies in Northern Michigan and to tap what founder Robert Ochtel said was an untapped source of funds from high net worth individuals who live in this
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - In much the same way it changed the wired Internet, Google plans to revolutionize the mobile Web through its new open software platform. Google's cell phone strategy took shape Monday with the announcement of a new open software platform and an alliance of wireless heavyweights that will help form the development
TROY ? PMV Technologies has been awarded two MarCom Awards, including one Gold Award, for their marketing and promotional campaigns. PMV is a member of Automation Alley. The MarCom Awards is an international creative competition that recognizes outstanding achievement by marketing and communication professionals. PMV Technologies competed against a broad field that included corporate marketing
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft thinks it has found the right price for its enterprise search tool: free. Starting next year, the company plans to give away a new product, dubbed Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, which enables workers to see a collection of search results spanning databases, internal computer systems, and the Internet. In addition
LANSING - While lawmakers and outside influences have put on a major push to repeal or at least delay the new sales tax on services before its scheduled December 1 launch, officials with the Department of Treasury are telling businesses to be ready for the tax to take effect on December 1. So much opposition
BEIJING, China - Suntech Power Holdings, an aggressive, rising star in the solar world, said in a conference call yesterday that it hopes to build plants in the U.S. to help it break into the market here. "We are currently in discussion with the governors of three different states who have been recruiting us to
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. government's controversial plan to outfit all Americans with uniform electronic identification cards--officially known as Real ID--may be on its deathbed, opponents of the program charged last week. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has long said that starting as soon as May 2008, and definitely after May 2013, it will
LANSING ? Gov. Jennifer Granholm and her economic team will tour the state this week to talk to alternative energy companies about their expansion plans and needs. But she also pushed the Legislature to adopt a renewable energy portfolio to give those alternative energy companies a big boost. Michigan hopes to put alternative energy manufacturing
CUPERTINO, Ca. - What a McAfee security expert calls a "nasty" piece of malware, Puper, has hit Apple Macintosh computers with a thud. "This is the first real malware that we have seen in the Mac," said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager, McAfee Avert Labs. "It is written by the same group that