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AUBURN HILLS - The Chrysler Foundation Monday announced more than a $190,000 in grants to support students participating in FIRST Robotics Competition (grades 9-12) and FIRST Tech Challenge (grades 7-12) programs in Michigan. In total, The Chrysler Foundation will distribute 43 grants to Michigan-based programs to help young people discover and develop a passion for
EGHAM, United Kingdom ? As if further evidence was needed to demonstrate the market acceptance of smartphones, worldwide sales to consumers in the third quarter of 2014 grew by 20.3 percent to 301 million units, while sales of more conventional mobile phones were flat, a news survey from Gartner reports. ?Sales of feature phones declined
DEARBORN ? With Sync 3, Ford is raising its game to support Android Auto and CarPlay eventually, but for now it's introducing a completely new version of its venerable Sync system. Introduced way back in 2007 in partnership with Microsoft, Sync was intended to make cars smarter. And not just the expensive ones, CNET reported.
WASHINGTON DC - Few companies could have prevented the cyberattack that devastated Sony Pictures, the FBI said during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on cybersecurity and the finance industry. "[T]he malware that was used would have gotten past 90 percent of the Net defenses that are out there today in private industry and [would have
DETROIT - ardentCause L3C, a Southeast Michigan woman-founded and woman-led technology company, was recently selected to provide data and analysis in support of ongoing, crucial evaluation services for the new Detroit Head Start Early Childhood Innovation Fund. Programs are ramping up to provide more extensive services to young children and their families from birth until
ANN ARBOR ? MichBio, the state?s Life Sciences trade group, is hosting a webinar Dec. 16 to define how to do electronic submissions to the FDA for Small Biopharma ? What, How, and Who? With pending FDA mandates for submissions in electronic common technical document (eCTD) form, small biopharma companies have been among the last
LANSING - The more conservative of the two chambers of Congress has approved legislation authorizing the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which provides funds for various conservation and cleanup projects around the Great Lakes. The program has already seen some $1.6 billion in federal funds since 2010, but U.S. Rep. Sander Levin (D-Royal Oak), a co-sponsor
LANSING - Schools would have to modify their policy prohibiting bullying to include cyberbullying and include assurance of confidentiality for an individual who reported an act of bullying, as well as procedures to safeguard that confidentiality, under a bill passed by the Senate on Thursday. SB 74 saw some perhaps unexpected debate on the Senate
SAGINAW TOWNSHIP ? Suniva has announced it will recruit another 75 people by mid-January to work at its factory near Saginaw, formerly a Sears Warehouse, joining about 30 people who already are building high efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells and modules. Suniva has partnered with Great Lakes Bay Michigan Works! Qualified candidates will take the