LANSING - Michigan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to its lowest rate in 14 years in July, 5.3 percent, but the decline had nothing to do with the state adding new jobs during the month because figures showed the state had no net gain in employment last month. The number of unemployed individuals declined
LANSING - The Michigan Environmental Council and the Natural Resources Defense Council were among numerous environmental interests who said Wednesday that, despite great conversations during the 37-member work group, the Senate's renewable energy portion of its energy policy proposal still falls short of expanding the use of renewable forms of energy. On top
GRAND RAPIDS - Mobile commerce is on the rise. According to a recent digital commerce survey by Gartner, mobile commerce currently makes up 22 percent of digital commerce revenue. While growth of mCommerce seems inevitable, finding the perfect mCommerce partner to help you create an effective mCommerce strategyis a must in today's business world. On
DETROIT - Ken Schoen, CEO of ACD.net, a Lansing based ISP, joins Internet Advisor to talk about new ways to bridge the digital divide that is growing between the connected and the unconnected in Michigan. The heart of our conversation centers around new technologies that promise to bring high speed connectivity and economic growth to areas
AUBURN HILLS - Grand Circus Detroit and the Macomb-OU INCubator are partnering to offer a free Introduction to Coding workshop on Sept. 15. This workshop is designed for folks who are curious about coding, but who have little to no experience. This workshop is the perfect time to learn the programming foundations needed to eventually
TROY - Davenport University is offering a 20 percent tuition discount to employees who work for organizations that are members of Automation Alley. If the organization is also a member of a Chamber of Commerce, those employees will also qualify for up to $1,500 per year in scholarship funding. In addition, the application fee is
DETROIT - NextEnergy and RecoveryPark Wednesday announced Light-Speed USA as the winner of NextChallenge: Lighting, a lighting technology competition. Light-Speed USA was awarded $80,000 in cash and in-kind services to support the development and demonstration of a next generation greenhouse lighting technology system for RecoveryPark. "NextEnergy developed NextChallenge: Lighting to source ideas to drive technology
HOUGHTON - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has appointed Michigan Tech President Glenn Mroz to the board of the Michigan Education Trust. MET is a prepaid college tuition plan that enables families to pre-purchase tuition based on today's tuition rates. The plan then covers the future cost of tuition when the child reaches college. "Glenn has
BOSTON - A Michigan State University College of Engineering professor who developed break through solar cell technology and a University of Michigan Ph.D. candidate in computer science who developed a scanning system to spot security flaws online both earned places on the 2015 Innovators Under 35 list published by the MIT Technology Review. Lunt, 33,
LANSING - Rooftop solar generation costs are nearly twice as high as large- or utility-scale installations and utility-scale projects emit about 50 percent less carbon emissions than an equivalent amount of rooftop capacity, a study has found. The study was prepared for and commissioned by a solar group, First Solar, with support Edison Electric Institute,