DETROIT - TechTown, the Wayne State University incubator, has partnered with Automation Alley and the Detroit Regional Chamber to office a soup-to-nuts incubation, business service partnership. But with hundreds of thousands of square feet of prime space available in downtown Detroit, and millions of square feet of shuttered factory space in the region, TechTown now
DETROIT - EcoV, a family of electric cars from EnVironmental Transportation Solutions, needs some investors to step up to take these cars into production. In this News Maker interview with CEO Richard Marks, we find out these electric cars, which retail from $10,000 to $15,000, get up to 100 miles on a charge. To listen,
SALINE - DesignHub, a creative services and marketing company, has developed the new websites for Advanced Photonix and its subsidiary Picometrix, both headquartered in Ann Arbor. DesignHub?s services for Advanced Photonix and Picometrix included planning the new websites, designing their graphical user interfaces, editing content, programming the sites, and populating the sites? pages with content.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - When Google announced Android, its wide-ranging cellphone project, last November, it promised a mobile platform more open than any other in the wireless industry. On Tuesday, the Internet giant released the Android platform source code for free via a new Web site, Forbes magazine reported. The release comes just a day
LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission warned in its winter energy appraisal that the cost of natural gas could rise as much as 21 percent. Now small business owners and their employees can hedge against this likely increase through a new member-only program being offered by the Small Business Association of Michigan. Small business
DEARBORN - Ford is offering iPhone and iPod touch users a unique and free software application from the Apple App Store that enables them to enhance existing or new photographs, courtesy of the all-new 2009 Ford Flex. �??Flex consumers love new technology, and we know that a lot of them have iPhones, so we wanted
DETROIT - EnVironmental Transportation Solutions has created a new video of all the EcoVElectric models with computer generated animation. The video is accessible on the EcoVElectric.Com website. A second version is in process to add narration to the video. The response has been great to the images which really show what the production EcoV will
LANSING - The federal government should transfer management of the housing bailout portion of the giant financial bailout package to the states, Governor Jennifer Granholm has said in an interview with Michigan Public Radio. All the states have housing arms of their governments and once the federal government recreates many of the mortgages that now
ANN ARBOR - October 31 is the last day to receive early-bird pricing for attending the MichBio Expo, which takes place on November 18-19 at the Rock Financial ShowPlace in Novi. It is the 4th Annual Expo presented by MichBio, the association for the biosciences industry in Michigan. Exhibit booth prices also go up Nov.
ROCHESTER - Oakland University will host Stem Cell Research: The Science, the Cures and the Law, an informational conference Oct. 28 at the Oakland Center Banquet Rooms. The forum will be led by Marcia Baum, executive director of Michigan Citizens for Stem Cell Research and Cures, from 6:30-8:30 p.m.. A question and answer session featuring