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TheAnn Arbor Business Review was a weekly business journal published inAnn Arbor, Michigan. The publication, formerly distributed in a tab format and then primarily on-line, covered business news in theWashtenaw County andLivingston County areas.
The publication started asBusiness Direct Weekly in January 2003 and becameBusiness Review Washtenaw/Livingston in late 2004. It changed names again in 2005, becoming theAnn Arbor Business Review.
Owned byAdvance Publications, it had the same parent company asThe Ann Arbor News, a dailynewspaper. The two publications shared a publisher but were editorially independent. TheAnn Arbor Business Review drew attention in 2005 when it became the first publication to report thatGoogle was making plans to move itsAdWords headquarters to Ann Arbor.
The business journal was part of the Michigan Business Review network, which also included theNovi-basedOakland Business Review and theKalamazoo-basedWestern Michigan Business Review. Following the folding of theAnn Arbor News in July 2009 as a daily printed paper, theAnn Arbor Business Review ceased its regular printed offering on August 13 and joined theNews as a primarily on-line publication, sharing theAnnArbor.com website and appearing in the AnnArbor.com print edition each Sunday.[1][2]