LANSING - Looking for the latest take on this year's races for state and federal office in Michigan? Gongwer's 2014 Michigan Elections app has it covered. Gongwer has updated the analysis section of the app with ratings changes on the competitiveness of several races as well as new analyses of the competitive contests. For the
LANSING - A coalition of environmental groups is asking Governor Rick Snyder to overturn the Department of Environmental Quality and reject a package of rules the group said would reduce protections from airborne toxins. The actual language of the rules is at this point still under development, but the goal of the rules is to
DETROIT - AT&T announced Thursday it will be the exclusive carrier for the HTC Desire EYE this holiday season. AT&T also said it will offer the RE by HTC, a point-and-shoot camera, later this year. Pricing and full availability for both products will be announced later. HTC Desire EYE features a 5.2-inch full High Definition
TOKYO ? Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced Thursday that its new Mexican subsidiary, Mitsubishi Electric Automotive de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., started making automotive parts in October. The new base in Mexico, where car production is thriving, will put Mitsubishi Electric in a better position to expand its auto parts business in the Americas, the company
DETROIT - Wayne State University has announced the public launch of a university-wide fundraising campaign to raise $750 million, the second comprehensive campaign in its 150-year history and its most significant to date. ?We have an ambitious vision to become a preeminent, public urban research university, and it only stands to reason that we need
DETROIT - Wayne State University?s Innovation Fellows Program is cultivating the next generation of chief scientific officers and entrepreneurial scientists for local high-tech industry. The program is supported by the New Economy Initiative (NEI) for Southeast Michigan and is led by Bramdon Dogwill, project manager of innovation programs in WSU?s Technology Commercialization Office. The first
SOUTHFIELD - Two student projects at Lawrence Technological University have won $25,000 Ford College Community Challenge grants that promote sustainability and innovation. In all, the Ford Motor Company Fund, the philanthropic arm of the Ford Motor Company, is awarding $280,000 in Ford C3 grants to 16 student-led projects focused on building sustainable communities. The program,
AUBURN HILLS - Have you felt the pain of seeing your priorities get pushed below the daily fires? Is your business falling short of its full potential? If you are a business owner or top leader and answered yes to these questions, you are not alone. A staggering 95 percent of business owners struggle to
STAMFORD, Conn. - Worldwide PC shipments reached 79.4 million units in the third quarter of 2014, a 0.5 percent decline from the third quarter of last year, according to preliminary results by Gartner Inc. ?Growth in the mature markets was offset by a decline in shipments in emerging markets, similar to what was seen in
ANN ARBOR - With a $25 million grant from an anonymous donor, the University of Michigan will begin training doctors in Africa in reproductive health services not widely available to many women living in remote areas of the continent. The grant will allow faculty at the U-M Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology to create a