EAST LANSING ? Michigan State University has cut an exclusive worldwide license agreement with HepaLife Technology of Canada to develop new cell culture-based flu vaccines to protect against the spread of influenza viruses among humans, including bird flu that is sweeping through Asia. The license agreement gives HepaLife exclusive rights to five issued patents. Under
ANN ARBOR ? Internet search engine Google will open an office in Ann Arbor this fall that will employ 1,000 people over the next five years in jobs that pay an average of $47,000 a year, the company announced Tuesday at a news conference. The new employees are needed to staff up the headquarters for
LANSING - Through the use of the Private Activity Bond Program, two auto-suppliers in Michigan plan on expanding their infrastructure, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Michigan Economic Development Corporation James Epolito announced Monday. Alliance Interiors LLC plans to obtain and install machinery in a vacant manufacturing plant located in Delta Township with the $2.5 million in
SEATTLE - Microsoft has reworked the PC assessment tool in Windows Vista after fielding complaints from hardware makers-but the changes may not be enough to completely quell concerns. In May, the software maker promised to make changes to the Windows System Performance Rating tool, which aims to assess how capable a machine is of harnessing
AUBURN HILLS ? Factory automation specialist Plexus Systems has appointed a former SupplySolution salesman to Plexus' executive sales team. Tim Burke, who lead the automotive sales effort for hosted supply chain management software provider SupplySolution (now TradeBeam), had previously been vice president of automotive for Servigistics, where he was responsible for marketing to auto OEMs.
RESTON, Va. - Time Warner's AOL division may eliminate charges for services such as having an AOL.com e-mail account, in order to entice customers to keep using the offerings even if they switch to a different Internet service provider. The strategy talks have been going on for several months and are accelerating, said the source,
DETROIT - Asterand, which has built a human tissue bank at Wayne State University's campus, announced a deal with Mitsui Corporation and Toyobo Co. Ltd., to offer drug discovery services to the Japanese market. Asterand will supply Japanese drug discovery companies with biological samples, data and research services covering a range of diseases, including cancer,
LANSING - Michigan businesses can now file critical tax and unemployment insurance registrations online, a process that can cut weeks off the processing time. At a press conference Thursday, Labor and Economic Growth Director Bob Swanson said the state now has about 50 percent of all the various forms businesses and others can file available
SEATTLE - Two new security flaws have been discovered in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, security experts have warned. Code for both the vulnerabilities has been published, but there have been no reports of attacks taking advantage of the flaws, the SANS Internet Storm Center, which monitors network threats, said in an advisory. SANS initially reported that
LANSING - The Michigan legislature would have to give up something significant in order for Gov. Jennifer Granholm to sign the overtime exemption bill to the minimum wage increase, the governor said Friday after accepting an endorsement from the Michigan Professional Fire Fighters Union at a South Lansing fire station. Granholm's statement confirmed a story