DETROIT ? An estimated 400 business, community and government leaders will gather Feb. 27 at the Motor City Casino to ring in the Chinese Year of the Goat. Dignataries invited include Gov. Rick Snyder, and other prominent figures from Delta Airline, Yanfeng USA, General Motors, ZYNP Intl. and many more diversified companies. To purchase tickets,
LANSING - The top 1 percent of wage earners in the state captured 82 percent of the income growth from 2009 until 2012, a study released Monday said. The study, called The Increasingly Unequal States of America: Income Inequality by State, said the top 1 percent in Michigan took home 25 times more than the
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.
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