AUBURN HILLS - Chrysler Group Tuesday announced new incentives to double the federal Cash For Clunkers credit and spur slow car sales. Chrysler calls its newest incentive "Double Cash For Your Old Car," and it can save consumers up to $9,000 toward the purchase of a new Chrysler, Jeep or Dodge vehicle. "Everyone shopping for
SARANAC - NXGen Holdings has acquired 100 percent of Vapor Technologies, Inc.'s common stock for $600,000 at $.02 per share in an all stock transaction. Vapor Technologies is a Nevada corporation that uses multiple encapsulated vortexes to provide pure fuel vapors to gasoline and diesel engines to improve combustion efficiencies. Optimal utilization of the company's
DEARBORN - Technology entrepreneur and investor Rick Snyder, CEO of Venture Capital firm Ardesta of Ann Arbor, officially announced his candidacy for Governor Tuesday morning on the steps of the Edison Lab in Greenfield Village as a symbolic backdrop to his campaign call to reinvent Michigan. The son of a small businessman, and a native
ANN ARBOR ? Data Center Online Tech announced Tuesday that it sold its shared web hosting business to IGD Solutions, a website design, development, and hosting company in Clarkston. Terms were not announced. Online Tech sold its 15 year old web hosting business to focus on its rapidly expanding colocation and managed server business. Over
LANSING - Small auto-supplier based manufacturers looking to diversify into other areas were encouraged to apply for federal stimulus funds for alternative energy manufacturing, Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Monday. The state now has $15 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment which can act as financial assistance to companies looking for expand into alternative and
GRAND RAPIDS - MITechNews.Com is encouraging all its readers and listeners to help a Michigan Entrepreneur achieve national recognition. Michelle Crumm of the Ann Arbor-based fuel cell company Adaptive Materials is one of five finalists nationally for Entrepreneur magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year award. She also is a board member of Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest.
ANN ARBOR - Give Camp, a partnership between the local developer community, Microsoft, Washtenaw Community College, Domino?s Pizza, and Verio, will be held in Ann Arbor July 17-19. Michigan Give Camp is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for local non-profit organizations. Developers and
DALLAS - AT&T announced Friday its AT&T Small Biz Tech Makeover contest for businesses nationwide. To thank entrepreneurs and small business owners for their continued support of and interaction with AT&T's online resource center, AT&T is sponsoring an online contest for small businesses to win a technology overhaul for their business. Contest prizes include Web
GRAND RAPIDS - Davenport University has been chosen by Cisco Systems as the only university in Michigan to pilot its Workforce Retraining Initiative. President Barack Obama highlighted this important initiative in a speech at a Town Hall meeting at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan on Tuesday. Three Michigan community colleges - Henry Ford Community
LANSING - As all levels of government feel the pinch of fewer revenues, all could benefit from cutting costs under a single, statewide public sector health care program, House Speaker Andy Dillon (D-Redford Twp.) said Wednesday in announcing his proposal. Dillon said annual savings of up to $900 million could be reached if every public