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The first Chevrolet Volts left the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant on Monday destined for initial retail launch markets. Customers in California, Texas, Washington D.C. and New York could receive what GM is billing as the world's first-and-only electric vehicle with extended-range capability in the next few days.
Kristen Adamowski had the idea while lamenting the lack of space in her dorm room. "I thought it would be awesome if I could save space by combining my ottoman and my refrigerator into one," said Adamowski, a freshman in the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Judges in the 1,000 Pitches business idea contest agreed, and on Sunday morning, Adamowski became one of 10 students to win $1,000 in the contest that attracted more than 3,000 ideas from students across the university.
As had been long rumored, Ann Arbor Spark president and CEO Michael Finney was named Monday by Gov.-elect Rick Snyder as the new CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp. Snyder and outgoing Gov. Jennifer Granolm Monday announced that the MEDC would be goverened in 2011 by a new leadership team that includes appointees of both the incoming and outgoing governors.
A 19-year-old Detroit woman has been charged after authorities say she fatally shot a woman and wounded three others outside a motorcycle club on the city's east side.
The Michigan Innovation Index, compiled by the University of Michigan-Dearborn's Center for Innovation Research, called iLabs, fell to 85.8 in the second quarter of 2010 from 85.8 in the first quarter. Researchers said a continued decline in gross job creation was the culprit.
Governor Granholm and the man who will take her place appeared together in a bipartisan show of how things should be done.
Your afternoon commute might be just as dicey as your drive in.
The research technology firm Polk has completed its move across Southfield. Polk is now based in the Travelers Tower II building, at 26533 Evergreen Road, where it will be an anchor tenant.
Call it an airbag for the OUTSIDE of the car. Livonia-based TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. (NYSE: TRW) Monday unveiled an advanded "Pedestrian Protection System" that it said it is now in production for an unnamed European auto manufacturer.
The risk of esophageal cancer among patients who suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease is not as high as many may think, according to new research from University of Michigan gastroenterologists.
Intacct, a San Jose, Calif. provider of cloud financial management and accounting applications, Monday announced that Southfield-based Tendras Business Advisors, a Microsoft Certified Dynamics GP partner, has joined the Intacct Business Partner program.
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