NEW YORK - Google will invest $1 billion for a 5 percent stake in Time Warner's America Online unit as part of a partnership that expands their existing search engine deal to include collaboration on advertising, instant messaging and video. Google also is offering a $300 million credit that AOL can use to buy keyword-based
LANSING ? Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed one bill in a package giving Single Business Tax relief to businesses aimed at manufacturers and said the state will do all it can to both keep and bring jobs to Michigan. She also said the federal government had to do its part to help the manufacturing industry
LANSING - Michigan's minimum wage of $5.15 an hour is effectively worth the same as it was when the wage was last increased in 1997, a study by the Michigan League for Human Services contends ? for a full time worker with no dependents, the $10,712 a year barely covers the poverty line. But a
YPSILANTI ? MichBio, Michigan?s Life Sciences trade association, announced last week that its 2006 annual meeting will be held in March at the Marriott Eagle Crest conference center in Ypsilanti. The MichBio Annual Meeting draws industry leaders and influential biotech professionals from across the state of Michigan. This meeting includes open bar, live music, dinner,
LANSING ? The Small Business Association of Michigan reported Friday that a petition drive will begin after New Year?s Day to place a Constitutional amendment before voters to raise Michigan?s minimum wage to $6.85 an hour in 2007. SBAM and a coalition of other associations were successful at defeating a legislative proposal to increase the
DETROIT ? Four senior attorneys from the intellectual property team at Howard & Howard, including its leader, started Thursday at Dickinson Wright, a Detroit law firm. Joining Dickinson Wright are William H. Honaker, Robert L. Stearns, Randall L. Shoemaker, and Edmund P. Anderson all from Howard & Howard?s Bloomfield Hills office. "The addition of these
LANSING - James Epolito, president of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, was named to the Michigan cabinet by Gov. Jennifer Granholm. Granholm announced the move on Thursday, even though she actually named Epolito on Tuesday at the regular bi-weekly meeting of the cabinet. Epolito "will play a critical role in our effort to create tens
BLOOMFIELD HILLS ? Entrepreneur & Investor Exchange has partnered with Mitechnews.Com to launch in January a new co branded eNewsletter, news section and exhibit space that will help entrepreneurs attract investors, find customers and sell products. This high visibility promotion combines six months of advertising and personal publicity in one significantly discounted package. It includes
LANSING - As lawmakers finished their session past midnight Tuesday, Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced she would sign the package of Single Business Tax cuts enacted earlier ? the final proposal is expected to cost $575 million over four years. With her intent to sign the package, 2005 will end with one of the top legislative
ANN ARBOR ? Trevor Jones, Director of OEM Business Development of Thermo Electron Corporation?s Laboratory Automation and Integration Business, has been selected as the new president of Robotic Industries Association ? the trade group?s 17th president, but first one from Canada. Jones, who co-founded CRS Robotics in 1983, succeeds Ǻke Lindqvist, Group Vice President, Robotic