GRAND RAPIDS - Student and faculty volunteers from Davenport University are trained and ready to kick off free income tax preparation sessions, available to low- and middle- income tax-filers (less than $58,000 in total family income) at locations across West Michigan. Every year, millions of dollars in tax refunds and credits go unclaimed by those
LANSING - Michigan faces a range of barriers to successfully implementing advanced energy systems and competing with other states for the economic benefits that come with such an industry, a report released Monday by the Institute for Energy Innovation concluded. The report comes at a time when interests from across the energy sector are landing
SOUTHFIELD -- Defending national champion St. John Lutheran School of Rochester took the first step toward a repeat of its Future City crown Monday, winning The Engineering Society of Detroit?s Michigan Regional Future City competition for the fifth straight year. In all, 22 middle school teams competed in the event, now in its 20th year.
SAN FRANCISCO - People with Android smartphones and tablets running older versions of the mobile operating system - around 60 percent of all Android users - are going to have to live with a security flaw Google has decided not to fix. A known security bug in the default, unbranded Web browser for Android 4.3
BIRMINGHAM ? The Great Lakes Angels Feb. 16 meeting will feature six exciting companies prior to a workshop called Overview of Angel Investing. Presenting companies include: AccuSuite (Ann Arbor, MI) is a seed stage startup developing a Cloud 2.0 business management suite (ERP, CRM, ecommerce) for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). By taking full advantage
ANN ARBOR ? MichBio, the state?s Life Sciences trade association, has posted six jobs on its web site, that include two in Ann Arbor. Jobs include: Head of Regulatory Affairs Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. - Ann Harbor Esperion seeks to recruit a highly qualified individual to lead Regulatory Affairs. The title will be determined based on
NEW YORK - Tapping a link on your smartphone to watch a new music video might sound harmless, but it got one 12-year-old girl from Tennessee into trouble last year. Instead of a video, the preteen -- whose name has not been disclosed because of her age -- had unwittingly installed malicious software that downloaded
WASHINGTON DC - Cybersecurity reforms are now a top priority of President Barack Obama. Whether Congress will care remains an open issue. During his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, the president barely tipped his hat to major cybersecurity reform proposals he introduced in speeches last week. They included streamlining the current patchwork
ANN ARBOR - A newly-released report by the Center for Automotive Research calculates the substantial economic contribution of the automotive industry to the national economy and the economies of all 50 states. Nationally, automakers, parts suppliers, and dealerships directly employ nearly 1.6 million workers and support a total of more than 7 million total jobs
SOUTHFIELD - The application deadline is Feb. 4 for the next nine-week Michigan I-Corps@LTU program that helps designers, innovators, engineers and tinkerers move their business ideas from the drawing board to the marketplace. classes start Feb. 14 at Lawrence Technological University. This year?s program will emphasize Design Thinking, a product development process that goes through