DETROIT - Marketing agency George P. Johnson has acquired online marketer Juxt Interactive and mobile marketing platform MobilePromote. Terms of both deals were not disclosed. MobilePromote enables marketers to integrate SMS and MMS into branded online portals. Juxt Interactive, which has done work for Coca-Cola, Adobe, BMW and Toyota, has helped advertisers create online campaigns
LANSING - In an effort to help state businesses that may be having difficulty getting loans, Governor Jennifer Granholm said Thursday the state would provide up to $150 million of state cash to banks and credit unions to make available for business loans. Details of the program are still being worked out, but Granholm said
LANSING - Governor Jennifer Granholm said Thursday she is asking for the U.S. government to move quickly on a series of proposals geared towards stimulating and protecting the state's economy, particularly the battered auto industry. She also outlined four priorities for legislative action in the lame duck session that she said would help promote job
LANSING - Saying it was clear that the national economic situation would hurt state revenues, Governor Jennifer Granholm said in a Thursday press conference that she would issue an executive order cutting the 2008-09 budget this year - sources said the cuts would be from $300 million to $600 million. The decision on the amount
LANSING - The head of the recall effort against House Speaker Andy Dillon (D-Redford) has just said there appears no way for the recall to be successful. Leon Drolet, executive director of the Michigan Taxpayer Alliance, said given the returns in the Republican enclaves of Dearborn Heights it appears Mr. Dillon had enough support to
LANSNG - Michigan voters appear to have rejected worries that expanded embryonic stem cell research would lead to both unregulated experimentation and increased taxpayer costs as Proposal 2008-2 has won narrowly. Supporters of Proposal 2008-1, on the other hand, lit up an easy win on their proposal to allow the use of prescribed medical marijuana
LANSING - In the ebb and flow of political cycles, the Michigan Republican Party had one of its historic lows on Tuesday, even losing its advantage in the Supreme Court as a Barack Obama-led Democratic ticket scored a series of victories up and down the ticket. Democrats had greater overall resources, for the second straight
LANSING - Tuesday brought more than 5.1 million people to the polls, a record number of total voters in Michigan, and a 68 percent turnout, Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land estimated Wednesday. The county with the highest total percentage turnout was Ottawa, who voted at 79 percent, Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Secretary of
WASHINGTON - Democratic candidate Barack Obama has been elected the first African-American president of the United States. As polls closed at 11 pm Eastern Time, Obama won all of the states that voted Democratic four years ago. But he also won a number of key states that had supported President Bush, including Virginia, Ohio, Iowa,
LANSING - Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm said she will not become Secretary of Energy in President-elect Barack Obama's administration, instead she will remain at the helm of Michigan until her term expires in 2010. Granholm denied rumors she would head to Washington DC Tuesday during an interview with WWJ Newsradio 950: "I have two years