LANSING - The Senate on Tuesday voted to send to Governor Rick Snyder a revised version of a bill aimed at increasing work in Michigan for those in the film industry and receiving some income tax from higher-paid producers or actors from certain successful projects. SB 1103 had recently been changed by the House to
DETROIT ? If you want to submit a crime tip anonymously to the Detroit Police Department, there?s now an app for that. Detroit Labs has churned out yet another smart phone application, this one for the DPD that provides information about the city and departments, allows tips to be submitted anonymously through the app and
DETROIT - Tel Ganesan, CEO and Founder of Kyyba and President of TiE Detroit has become the chairperson for Connect India Now, an initiative to provide Indian cities, NGO's, villages and small businesses with cutting edge technology that will not only connect them to each other, but to their counterparts in the United States. The
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
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 ? Michigan House and Senate leaders have decided to put legislation that would increase funding for roads into a House-Senate conference committee in hopes a compromise can be found using that legislative mechanism. The decision came after a Tuesday meeting of the Legislative Quadrant and Governor Rick Snyder. Spokespersons for House Speaker Jase Bolger
SAN FRANCISCO - A new product from Dashlane could take much of the hassle out of changing your major website passwords, which could be particularly handy in the event of a security breach. Available as of today, the Dashlane Password Changer works by displaying a list of your password-protected websites, CNET.Com reported. You click on
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Mainstream tech startups have been vital to jumpstarting new firm innovation in America. Policymakers are increasingly interested in whether this will drive similar innovation in the hard-hit manufacturing sector. Among the most visible new movements of late is the maker movement, a bottom-up force representing the latest inspiration for students to
LANSING - The Michigan Film Office on Monday announced the approval of film and digital media incentives for the final five projects of fiscal year 2014, bringing its year-end totals to 27 projects awarded more than $63.7 million in incentives. The Film Office said the incentives would generate more than $245.4 million of projected expenditures
DETROIT - Small and medium-sized businesses are quickly moving to the cloud. And they?re finding that cloud-based services - software as a service, infrastructure as a service, and platform as a service provided by vendors from remote locations ?in the cloud? - offer advantages over terrestrial products. For example, with these applications, SMBs can more