LIVONIA - Technology Solutions announced Thursday that the company received Technology Assurance Group's top award at the association?s 14th Annual Convention event held in Nashville. Technology Assurance Group (TAG), an international organization of independently owned unified communications companies in the United States and Canada, selected Technology Solutions as the winner of the ?Performance Excellence Award?
SEATTLE - Amazon has made Kindles for years; is a phone next? Though Amazon continues to deny that it's building a smartphone, all signs point to yes. That's especially true now that Amazon announced it's holding a press event on June 18 to unveil a new device. The company released a video with the invite
LANSING - The Michigan Legislature might have given Clean Corporate Citizen Program enrollees too much protection, at least one observer said in comments on the state's federal Clean Air Act implementation plan. New law guiding the program allows enrollees to avoid penalties if they can show a violation was not intentional or due to gross
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
LANSING - The proposed emission rules announced earlier this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would be more stringent on Michigan than other Midwestern states and changes should be made to the proposal, U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, the Democratic candidate for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat, said on Wednesday. Peters made his comments two
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ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Venture Capital Association released their 2013 research report this week, which shows that $120 million was invested in 40 companies in Michigan, the highest number of deals since the MVCA began tracking this information, an increase of 111 percent over the last five years. Other highlights from this report show
LANSING ? The Small Business Association of Michigan has named Kevin Cuncannan as the organization?s Director, Small Business Services. Kevin was previously Team Leader ? COBRA Administration. In addition, SBAM has hired Shannon North and Brittany Smith as COBRA Coordinators.
DETROIT - After a strong bounce-back from the weather-induced winter lull, it looks like job growth moderated in May, Comerica Bank said in its monthly economic report. Last month, we saw a very strong 288,000 net job gain in the official Bureau of Labor Statistics report for April. Today, we see a more moderate gain
LANSING ? Michigan Senate Democrats and Republicans are clashing on whether a proposal to increase Michigan's sales tax is the right solution to build funding for roads, and Democrats won't back down on having a solution that includes some consideration for those with lower incomes that would be disproportionately affected by a tax increase. In