MANISTEE - Joan's Company has an innovative green friendly solution to keeping your house warmer in those very cold Michigan winters - solar window warmers. Joan also has other energy efficient and very low cost ways to keep your toes warm as well. Lean all about it in this special GreenTech edition of News Maker
MANISTEE - An Ann Arbor architectural firm is designing the first green-certified restaurant in the United States, complete with LED lighting, eco friendly heating and cooling and much more. Best of all, it's located in Michigan, in Rochester. To learn more, listen to this GreenTech edition of News Maker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com
DETROIT - The tenuous state of Michigan's economy was on full display Tuesday with rapid announcements of an $11 billion Dow joint venture with 800 high-wage jobs choosing the state for its new headquarters, General Motors instituting a new round of cuts that targeted high-wage white collar jobs, 13 companies investing $145 million to create
LANSING - Armed with a 12-foot tall effigy of Sen. Patricia Birkholz (R-Saugatuck) as puppeteer to three of her colleagues in the Senate and a 20-foot tall inflatable model of a coal fired plant, environmental groups staged a public outcry in front of the Capitol Tuesday against the Senate's energy plan. Terry Miller, chair of
TROY - ConnecTech and the Troy Chamber are partnering this fall to offer awards for web excellence, but instead of giving them to web development companies, they'll go to individuals. This year's ConnecTech categories include individual awards for excellence in Graphic Design, Copy Writing, Application Development and Blogging. To learn more, listen to this special
CUPERTINO - Despite the outages, shortages, and related hand-wringing associated with last Friday's iPhone 3G launch and Thursday's release of the iPhone 2.0 firmware, Apple says there were nevertheless 10 million downloads from its new App Store in its first weekend of existence. And those long lines? A total of one million iPhone 3G units
LANSING - BoroPharm, a Michigan State University spin off that manufactures boronic acids and esters, has received a $250,000 investment from the Capital Community Angels. Members of the Capital Community Angels, formed in late 2006 by high net worth individuals, invest in entrepreneurial businesses at an early development stage that show strong potential for profitable
TORONTO, Ontario - Trend Micro has reported an increase in the number of employees who admit to visiting social networking sites on the Internet while connected to the corporate network, according to the results of a study that explores corporate computer users' perceptions of and experiences with security threats. The study, which surveyed 1600 corporate
ANN ARBOR - Borders Audiobook Downloads, a new audiobook download service, debuted Monday on Borders.com, offering an initial 15,000 titles, including fiction and non-fiction bestsellers, classics, self-help and children's books, among other categories. Each week, hundreds of new titles will be added to the online catalog of audiobook titles, augmenting the vast selection of audiobooks
ANN ARBOR - The software development community came together last weekend to help 15 metro Detroit non-profits at the first annual Ann Arbor Give Camp. At Give Camp, nearly 100 developers from around the region created custom software to help non-profits solve IT challenges ranging from Web site creation to data management. Ann Arbor Give