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The world's (arguably) largest automaker is building up its presence in Ann Arbor by investing $100 million to create the Toyota Research Institute of North America. The institute will be constructed in its North American technical center and create 65 research positions by 2010.
Robots took over Eastern Michigan University's campus last weekend as teams participated in the FIRST Robotics Great Lakes Regional. More than 60 high schools teams from across the Midwest exhibited their robotic know-how at the competition.
HandLab is not only doing more with less, it's making it the central cog of its business. The Ann Arbor firm specializing in miniaturizing experiments has become so successful at it that it expects to hire another 10 people this year.
As ForeSee Results continues to grow, it can point to big names like Zillow.com as reasons for its success. The real-estate Web site is taping the Ann Arbor online customer satisfaction firm to continue helping it make the right decisions to make its users happy.
Ann Arbor is scoring again, this time luring California-based MyBuys to set up an office in Tree Town. The deal, brokered by the Michigan Economic Development Corportation, will create 250 new jobs directly and another 350 spin-off jobs.
Laser technology is joining the ranks of new economy industries taking root in Ann Arbor. Laser-maker IMRA America is moving forward with plans to expand its R&D facilities in Ann Arbor Township and add another 20 jobs.
Third time is definitely the charm for Ann Arbor's NanoBio. The UofM spin-off recently received its third installment of venture capital ($10 million) and it hopes to create more research jobs in the near future.
More work, more money and more jobs are in line for ForeSee Results. The Ann Arbor-based, Web site-information firm expects to add 45 people this year for a total of about 150 employees.
A little Ann Arbor new media start up is starting to really gear up for some success. Fluency Media recently helped make Michigan's travel Web site the most popular in the U.S. last year. Fluency also expects to grow its revenue by 50 percent this year.
David Fry, the computer science doctor from Harvard, grew a family printing and publishing company from Mechanicsburg, Penn., into Fry, Inc., a $55-million-a-year electronic commerce business in Ann Arbor.
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