STERLING HEIGHTS - The Macomb-OU INCubator was recently awarded Business Accelerator Funds to provide accelerator services to client companies Nostrum Energy LLC and Omni One LLC in the amounts of $50,000 and $36,635, respectively. With the addition of these latest awards, the Macomb-OU INCubator has now surpassed all other business accelerators in garnering the most
SOUTHFIELD - Warner Norcross & Judd LLP has named Frank E. Henke executive partner of its growing Macomb County office. Henke, who concentrates his practice in estate and trust planning, will lead the 10 attorneys and paralegal who practice in the office. Macomb County is one of eight offices in the state ? and the
LANSING - Quick question: How many online accounts do you have? Add up work apps, shopping sites, social media sites or anything else that requires a username and password. If your number is greater than eight you may want to consider a good password manager. Besides work accounts, many users have accounts for Facebook, Amazon,
LANSING - Increasing the state's Earned Income Tax Credit would be a sensible way to provide some tax relief to the working poor if the state is going to increasing gasoline taxes to raise money for roads, the Michigan League for Public Policy said Monday. Gilda Jacobs, president of the MLPP, urged the Legislature not
LANSING - Toyoda Gosei North America Corporation is expanding in Troy with a $250,000 grant from the Michigan Strategic Fund, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced Monday. The expansion is expected to generate $7.9 million in new private investment and add 51 new jobs. ?Toyoda Gosei is a world leader in automotive products, and this
LANSING - A sales tax increase to finance road construction and improvements would "put a dagger in the state's economic recovery," a letter from the Michigan Retailers Association to Governor Rick Snyder and the Legislature says. The letter, dated Wednesday and signed by James Hallan, CEO of the retailers association, said increasing the sales tax
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder and Republican legislative leaders came to agreement Thursday on a framework to finalize the 2014-15 fiscal year budget that assures a hefty General Fund commitment to roads and funding increases throughout most of the government. Besides an overall agreement, House-Senate conference committees approved budgets for 11 of the 17 departments
LANSING - The conference report adopted for the Michigan higher education budget includes a 5.9 percent increase for universities and removes language that would have docked Michigan State University $500,000 for its role in a course regarding so-called "prohibited instruction activity" on unions. Overall, the items of difference amount to about $85.9 million gross (about
LANSING - The Michigan Senate also passed a pair of bills (SB 924 and SB 925 ) to criminalize cyber revenge, or the posting of sexually explicit images on the Internet without the consent of an individual, and images given with consent in a private relationship. "In a split second a sexually explicit photo can
DETROIT ? Registration is open for the Michigan Cyber Awareness Luncheon Series 2014 at the Renaissance Center in Detroit. Program topics include: Let?s Talk Cyber: Is Privacy Dead? ? Interactive Audience Discussion Panel Discussion: Cyber Security and Global Threats: Are We Ready? Special Video Message from Governor Rick Snyder Panel Discussion: Hot Issues in Cyber