WASHINGTON DC - Lawrence Tech students and recent graduates participating in the Solar Decathlon in the nation's capital this week are one of 20 university teams ? as well as Germany, Spain, Canada and Puerto Rico ? that have accepted the challenge to design and build houses that convert sunlight into enough energy to meet
TROY - The Troy Chamber of Commerce's ITroy Committee last week presented its Eighth annual Best of the Web Helen eWards for Web Excellence to seven web sites developed by Michigan-based design companies. Each winner received a Helen eWard, a stunning crystal pillar award with a 3D image of Helen of Troy etched inside. The
SAN ANTONIO ? The new AT&T, formerly Southwestern Bell, posted a 41.5 percent rise in quarterly net profit on Tuesday, as Apple's iPhone helped boost wireless subscriber growth above market expectations. AT&T, the exclusive U.S. service provider for the iPhone, said its third-quarter net profit was $3.1 billion, compared with $2.2 billion in the year-earlier
WASHINGTON DC - With a short notice sent to a handful of Web sites last week, the largest retailer in the world put a damper on the biggest shopping day of the year for die-hard bargain hunters. For those who trawl the Web hoping for any edge in finding the best price on the most
LANSING - Michigan is scheduled on Dec. 1 to roll out a new tax on 20 very specific services, ranging from such weird jobs as baby shoe bronzing and fortune telling. Also targeted is the broad term called consulting, which is giving the state's business community fits. Brendan Ringlever, with Butzel Long's Government Affairs office
DETROIT - Chevrolet is in the midst of launching Project Driveway, an ambitious program where more than 100 fuel cell electric vehicles will be put in the hands of select consumers for the largest market test of its kind. Testing will take place over the next several months in the Los Angeles, New York and
LANSING ? Michigan Travel web site, Michigan.Org, over the weekend broke the single user record set during 2006, with more than 10 million sessions served. The average daily visit rate is 35,375, up from 28,460 set a year ago. Michigan.Org also dominated the summer season (April through September), taking the title as the No. 1
CHICAGO - There are approximately 22 million small business owners in the United States and one of the characteristics that make up this bunch is they are fiercely independent, according to a year's worth of surveys conducted by Discover Small Business Watch. Sixty per cent of small business owners said they would not give up
ANN ARBOR - ArbCamp, which will focus on sharing the technology and social networking in Ann Arbor, will be held October 27 at the Morris Lawrence Building at Washtenaw Community College. ArbCamp is a one-day, open-space event featuring members of the greater Ann Arbor community involved in marketing, business and technology, which are converging. The
ANN ARBOR - Four more Michigan start-up technology companies received $1 million in investment commitments in September from the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund ? companies involved in CRM software, bioinformatics, drug delivery and Internet virus detection. The latest $1 million capital infusion will push the total investments made through the Fund past $3 million. Earlier