Pfizer, Inc., may have closed its doors, but the company continues to investment in Michigan's economy, most recently announcing that $6 million worth of research equipment will be available for life sciences start-ups.
One less piece of pristine country around Ann Arbor is safe from sprawl after the city's Greenbelt Program spent $1.8 million for it. The city bought the Narrow Gauge Woods, which includes 13.5 acres of forest and a stretch of stream.
Metromode reported late last year that Ann Arbor-based ProQuest - an information collecting, organzing and publishing company - was moving on up, with a site expansion and plans for aggressive hiring in the works. This week, we learned that ProQuest is expanding in another way, with the purchase of Maryland-based RefWorks.
Ann Arbor's Community Television Network is moving to a new home on the city's south side. The local-programing broadcaster plans to execute the move in mid March.
A drug some are calling the female Viagara is one step closer to market. Ophena, developed by Ann Arbor drug company QuatRX Pharmaceuticals Co., was designed to treat a post-menopausal condition that makes sexual activity difficult or painful. QuatRX recently reported good results from a late-stage study.
Ever feel like motorists hold all of the cards in deck stacked against pedestrians and bicyclists in Metro Detroit? Ann Arbor is trying to do something about it, holding a public meeting on finding ways to calm traffic and create safer environments for non-motorized traffic on Jan. 30.
Imagine you’re trying to record a presentation. Now imagine you’ve got a nifty piece of software that records your presentation, incorporates your MicroSoft PowerPoint presentation and ties in meta-date and enhanced media files synced to your audio.
Ann Arbor plans to incorporate features friendly to non-motorized traffic when it starts to rebuild West Stadium Boulevard between Pauline and Main streets.
An Ann Arbor team is making a try for the Automotive X Prize - a challenge that will award $10 million to the first team that can design a practical but fun 100mpg automobile.
It’s a standard question in the metromode interview – are you hiring? Do you plan to hire anytime soon? (It’s not called the Innovation and Jobs News column for nothing.) For Steve Frey of Universal Parametrics, Inc., the answer was simple: “We’re looking to fill six positions, immediately,” he says. “We are desperately seeking people.”
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