LANSING - Top U.S. administration officials, along with Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle, will join Gov. Jennifer Granholm in Saginaw on Wednesday to discuss details of President Barack Obama's proposals to develop new energy policies. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke will join Granholm and Doyle on Wednesday at the Dow Event Center, as will Ed Montgomery,
LANSING - Two Democratic lawmakers in the Michigan House will be introducing legislation this week that would provide free tuition to colleges and universities for Michigan high school graduates paid for by a 1.15 percent hike in the income tax rate. Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith (D-Salem Twp.), a candidate for governor, and Rep. Rebekah Warren
ANN ARBOR - If you're one of the 100,000 plus fans that converge on the University of Michigan Stadium on a football Saturday who have been frustrated by cell phones that can't find a signal, Verizon Wireless says they have you covered. Starting in September, Verizon will ride to the rescue with a COLT (cell
AUBURN HILLS - Dassault Systemes and Oakland University announced Thursday a partnership in the university's four-week post graduate program, called PLM Workforce Development Short Course ,aimed primarily at displaced engineers. The intensive four-week course offered by the School of Engineering and Computer Science integrates business and engineering expertise. Students will be fully immersed in PLM,
DETROIT - This soap opera over what's going on at Opel keeps getting more and more interesting. Now, General Motors says it may not sell Opel, and will try to raise $4 billion on its own to keep it, by mortgaging its assets in China. This, of course, is going to further anger the German
LOS ANGELES - Sony Corp., hoping to steal some of Amazon.com Inc.'s thunder in the electronic-book market, unveiled a wireless reader that could be the strongest competitor to Amazon's Kindle this holiday season. Priced at $399, the Sony Reader Daily Edition is $100 more expensive than the entry-level Kindle, but one-ups the market leader with
BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Amazon announced on Wednesday two new security features for its Amazon Web Services aimed at luring new enterprise business. The big news is a feature called Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, or Amazon VPC, which enables businesses to connect to Amazon's flexible AWS resources using an industry-standard virtual private network connection. Amazon also
LANSING - Two alternative energy companies want to buy a closed Ford Motor Co. factory in southeast Michigan and convert it into a renewable energy park that could employ at least 2,800 workers within five years. The $725 million project involves Xtreme Power of Kyle, Texas, and Clairvoyant Energy of Santa Barbara, Calif., which are
WASHINGTON - The U.S. economic recovery gathered steam in July, according to better-than-expected reports issued Wednesday on manufacturing and the housing market. The two segments of the economy that were among the weakest during the depths of the recession - new-home sales and durable-goods orders - both registered big gains last month to bolster the
LANSING - Legislation that would allow state economic development officials to offer more Michigan Economic Growth Authority tax credits this year while mandating greater transparency was unanimously approved Wednesday by a Senate committee. Meanwhile, a House committee reported legislation designed to lure a major advanced battery manufacturing operation to the site of the shuttered Ford