ANN ARBOR ? Esperion Therapeutics raised another $189.9 million in a stock offering Tuesday afternoon and investors unloaded shares Wednesday to take profits driving the share price down by 15 percent at the closing bell. Considering that Esperion?s year-to-date return is a whopping 154 percent, at a time when the broader biotech industry retreats, it?s
LANSING - The Michigan Early Stage Venture Investment Corporation would not be able to enter into any new agreement, and current venture funds would expire in 2030 rather than 2054 under bills reported by the House Commerce and Trade Committee on Tuesday. HB 4195 , HB 4196 and HB 4365 cleared the committee 17-2, with
SOUTHFIELD - Michigan?s best event for seeking highly qualified engineering and technical talent is just three weeks away. The Engineering Society of Detroit's annual Spring Engineering & Technology Job Fair is scheduled for April 13 at the Suburban Collection Showplace. ESD is offering a Recruitment Booth Package for $395 for ESD members ($495 for nonmembers).
SEATTLE - A new patent granted to aircraft, defense and security company Boeing is taking its cues from science fiction ? with a force field. Really. Just like the glowing energy shields seen protecting troops, machines and even spacecraft in Star Wars and Star Trek, the design - named "Method and system for shockwave attenuation
LANSING ? Supported Intelligence, an advanced analytics company that was started several years ago by economist Patrick Anderson of Anderson Economic Group, have come up with an innovative way to generate some publicity for the product, a tool that helps financial folks make intelligent choices, like which stocks are likely to increase in value. Supported
LANSING - Michigan is partnering with Google to highlight certain attractions such as Mackinac Island, Sleeping Bear Dunes and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, among others, to be seen on Google Street View - something that was not previously accessible. "The Pure Michigan campaign has elevated Michigan as a national travel destination, and we are taking
DETROIT - SAE International, MIT Alliance of Michigan and NextEnergy have developed the Global Automotive Innovation Challenge to create increased flow of great innovations for automotive OEMs and Suppliers. Twenty Semi-Finalists teams, including a dozen from Michigan, with potentially high value innovations for the automotive market have been screened from a larger pool of global
GRAND RAPIDS ? For the 15th year, serial entrepreneur Keith Brophy has looked into his crystal ball to predict tech trends short and long-term. On Wednesday he updated his list to include a stampede to social media advertising, virtual reality headsets for gaming and entertainment, and the Apple Watch leading the sale of 100 million
ANN ARBOR ? MITechNews.Com and The Engineering Society of Detroit today announced a new content partnership, the first step toward further collaboration. Matt Roush, ESD?s Director of Communications and Public Relations, will post the stories that he writes for the ESD?s Technology Century website and magazine in a newly created ESD section at MITechNews.Com and
DETROIT ? Janet Tyler, a founder and former co-CEO of Airfoil, left the public relations firm last October because, she said, after 20 years working in agency shops she was hoping to land a job with a start-up. In February, Tyler was named Chief Operating Officer of Red Level Networks, a 10-year old IT services