LANSING - Neogen Corporation on Tuesday announced its revenues surpassed $100 million for the first time, while fiscal 2008 earnings set a new high as well. Neogen, which develops and markets products dedicated to food and animal safety, reported a 19 percent increase in revenues for its 2008 fiscal year, which ended May 31, and
ANN ARBOR - To celebrate the grand opening of the new Borders.com, the company has launched a sweepstakes where one lucky winner will receive a $1,000 Borders gift card to build a "dream library" of favorite books, movies and music titles. Sweepstakes entries will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. EDT, July 31. The winner of
NEW ORLEANS - A study looking at the potential impact of global warming on the states has projected that Michigan could see an impact in terms of billions of dollars in lost trade as a result of lower Great Lakes levels alone. The report, which looks at the impact on a number of other states
LANSING - Ever since the House threw on tie-bar amendments to a campaign finance measure and augmentation to the state's no-fault auto insurance, legislation that would change the Michigan Business Tax's gross receipts calculation to exclude taxes businesses remit to the state has hung in limbo. The House acted on SB 1038 prior to recessing
LANSING - The Strategic Economic Investment and Commercialization Board received 117 applications, in the final count, for the current year round of 21st Century Jobs Fund investments that will divvy up $30 million. But at least two and as many as 26 of those proposals will not be reviewed because they did not meet the
TROY ? Andi Duncan, the marketing manager for PMV Technologies, has been named the new Director of Member Service for Automation Alley. She assumes her new duties on July 28. Traci Bleske will be the new Team PMV point person for the company?s newsletter; Web Site; Events and Sponsorships; Public Relations; and Marketing/Advertising Placement. ?This
SAN FRANCISCO - A team of computer scientists has published source code that can in some circumstances bypass encryption used in Microsoft's BitLocker and Apple's FileVault and be used to view the contents of supposedly secure files. A report published by CNET News.Com in February described how the contents of a computer's memory could be
ANN ARBOR - William Brinkerhoff has joined the Board of Directors at Velcura Therapeutics. Brinkerhoff was vice president of business development for Esperion Therapeutics in Ann Arbor, where he successfully negotiated multiple large potential partnering agreements prior to Esperion's acquisition by Pfizer for $1.3 billion. Velcura just completed a first-in-man clinical trial for VEL-0230, an
DETROIT - Wayne State University has been selected by the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education to receive its Award for Institutional Excellence in Communications Technology for the university's Broadcast Messaging Service. This service was developed at the direction of WSU President Irvin Reid, who called for the creation of an emergency
LANSING - The first publicly-released public opinion poll on the controversial Reform Michigan Government Now! proposal shows that 70 percent of those queried support the broad measure that would dramatically reform legislative redistricting, cut the number of legislators and Supreme Court and Court of Appeals judges, and require financial disclosure. While Republican officials have pilloried