Technology/Life Sciences/R&D News
05/20/12 Passers-by on Grand River Avenue and Rosa Parks Boulevard, near MotorCity Casino, will now see paintings by street artists --- including one of an overweight Captain America.
05/20/12 Livonia-based TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. has introduced an infotainment touch pad that can be molded onto the surface of a vehicle's armrest, steering wheel or instrument panel.
05/20/12 Competition is heating up on the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, with six proposals in play and little time left before contracting officials in Warren decide on development of the $5 billion-plus military program.
05/20/12 Crain's Detroit Business is launching the CIO Awards, a recognition of the top technology executives in metro Detroit.
05/20/12 Most people associate HoMedics Inc. with back massagers, or alarm clocks that play the soothing sounds of the rain forest.
05/18/12 Asterand plc, the struggling Detroit-based supplier of human tissue samples and research services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, said today that negotiations are continuing for its tissue business and that it expects to notify shareholders in the next few weeks about a possible deal.
05/16/12 LANSING (AP) — More online charter schools will be allowed in Michigan under a law signed Tuesday by Gov. Rick Snyder that he and other supporters say will provide more choices, although critics think the changes are premature and lack quality control.
05/15/12 Lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems Inc. announced today that it lost $125 million in its first quarter because of a recall of defective batteries made at its Livonia plant.
HEALTH CARE EXTRA
05/13/12 Companies in Michigan are expected to examine the cost and quality implications for their employees from a new study on cardiac procedures that shows a wide regional variation in the use of elective angioplasties.
05/13/12 There seems to be a lot of anguish these days about the rights of voters and whether those rights are being squashed.
05/10/12 Good research news comes out of the University of Michigan in threes this week.
05/10/12 LANSING (AP) — The Michigan Department of Transportation says it's using digitally encrypted electronic signatures for construction contractors as part of an effort to save paper and money.
05/09/12 ANN ARBOR (AP) — A research funding effort at the University of Michigan is putting $15 million into the hands of professors to jump-start projects they believe in.
05/08/12 Livonia-based TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. has introduced an infotainment touch pad that can be molded onto the surface of a vehicle's armrest, steering wheel or instrument panel.
05/06/12 Crain's Detroit Business is launching the CIO Awards, a recognition of the top technology executives in metro Detroit.
05/03/12 University of Michigan researchers are celebrating the news that their second line of human embryonic stem cells has been placed on the U.S. National Institutes of Health's registry, which makes them available for federally funded research nationwide.
05/03/12 Rockwell Medical Technologies Inc., a Wixom-based biopharmaceutical research and development company, reported a sharp increase in its net loss in the first quarter.
05/02/12 LANSING (AP) — Opponents of a recently approved plan to allow more online charter schools in Michigan failed to garner enough votes to reconsider it Tuesday in the House, sending the measure on to the Senate for likely final passage.
05/01/12 DETROIT — General Motors Co. plans to cut about a quarter of the workers at its research and development facility at the Warren Technical Center, part of a broader reorganization of its R&D operation.
04/30/12 Asterand plc, the longtime anchor tenant at Detroit’s TechTown, announced in its annual report today that for the year ending Dec. 31, it was unable to receive an offer for the entire company and has signed letters of intent to sell its two businesses in separate deals.
04/29/12 Crain's Detroit Business is launching the CIO Awards, a recognition of the top technology executives in metro Detroit. It is open to the top corporate executive providing strategy related to technology at any company, or an outside contractor acting as CIO for a corporation.
04/27/12 Hybrid and electric powertrain supplier Azure Dynamics Corp. has closed its Oak Park headquarters and laid off its final 50 local employees after filing for bankruptcy last month.
04/27/12 A fellow Luddite wrote a front-page article for last Sunday's New York Times titled "The Flight from Conversation." It was written by MIT Professor Sherry Turkle, whose recent book will give you a clue to content: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other.
04/24/12 General Electric Co. announced on Monday that it will add 300 jobs at its Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center in Van Buren Township.
04/23/12 Thomson Reuters has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Ann Arbor-based health care data, analytics and performance benchmarking business to private-equity investor Veritas Capital for $1.25 billion in cash.
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