DETROIT - General Motors Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell Thursday announced that he will leave the company April 1. Liddell, 52, joined GM in January, 2010 and led the company's financial and accounting operations on a global basis. Dan Ammann will succeed Liddell as General Motors chief financial officer, effective April 1,
LANSING - Nationally recognized entrepreneur Richard Sheridan, CEO and founder of Menlo Innovations, is the keynote for the seventh annual Michigan Celebrates Small Business awards dinner on April 28th. Richard Sheridan began his "career" at 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. He was hooked on software in 1971. He had his first
READING ? Duke Energy Renewables is hosting a public information day Saturday March 12 to answer questions about its proposed $160 million Hillsdale Windpower Project that would generate 100-megawatts of electrical power over 12,000 acres in Reading, Cambria and Allen Townships, enough to power 30,000 homes. The event will take place from 1 to 5
LANSING - This year's Entrepreneurship Score Card shows that Michigan is generally holding steady relative to the other 49 states with Michigan's fast-growing "stage two" small businesses leading the way in the state's economic reinvention. The seventh annual Entrepreneurship Score Card is sponsored by the Small Business Foundation of Michigan. ?The goal of the Score
LANSING - Most of the current regulation would be removed from local telephone service under legislation being considered by the House Energy and Technology Committee. As currently drafted, the bill (HB 4314 ) would essentially leave state licensing of wireline telephone providers, 911 service and Lifeline service for low-income residents. But it would eliminate all
LANSING - It is the type of technical question that can occasionally throw people into fits, but the issue has been raised about whether Gov. Rick Snyder's proposal to combine his proposed changes to the state's personal income tax and create a new corporate income tax in one bill would run afoul of the Constitution's
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Google apparently has used a kill switch to remove 21 malware-infected apps from both its Android Market and from people's Android devices. Calling the Trojan the "mother of all Android malware," enthusiast site Android Police said yesterday the infected apps were discovered by a Reddit user, CNET News.Com reported. That Reddit
LANSING - Lt. Governor Brian Calley got right to the heart of lawmakers' concerns regarding one of the biggest components of the governor's budget - taxing pensions - as he delivered a series of examples Wednesday as to why Michigan's current system is inequitable. Calley said the entirety of Governor Rick Snyder's tax reform initiative,
DETROIT ? Sylvester Gates Jr. will explain his superstring theory, the ultimate nature of the universe, on March 3 during Wayne State University's Vaden W. Miles Memorial Lecture in the Spencer M. Partrich Law School Auditorium. The title of his 3:30 pm lecture is "SUSY and the Lords of the Ring: Supersymmetry Theory." Gates is
LANSING ? New Michigan Economic Development Corp. President Michael Finney is encouraging Michigan-based entrepreneurs who want a shot at winning $100,000 to register by March 4 for the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business-plan competition. ?This competition is a great resource for Michigan innovators to tap,? Finney said. ?Our future Fords, Dows and Kelloggs get a