ANN ARBOR - Citizen satisfaction with government websites remains flat according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index E-Government Satisfaction Index, released Tuesday in partnership with customer analytics firm ForeSee. Citizen satisfaction with federal government websites scores 75 on the ACSI?s 100-point scale. Satisfaction has remained at or near 75 on ACSI?s 100-point scale since 2009.
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder is beginning to regain some of the support he lost after signing right-to-work legislation last year, but he is still within striking distance for expected Democratic challenger Mark Schauer, a poll released Wednesday by Lambert, Edwards and Associates and Denno Research shows. Snyder had a 44 percent favorable rating in
LANSING - In a wide ranging consolidated case covering four separate issues involving the Detroit-based utility DTE Energy, the Court of Appeals held on Wednesday that the Public Service Commission was wrong in allowing the utility to charge for updating meters and a particular method to recover costs, but that it could charge customers for
LANSING - The Michigan Film Office announced Wednesday the feature film Money is Money has been approved for a film incentive from the state. The twist-filled thriller is set in Detroit and the surrounding areas and is scheduled to film later this summer. Money is Money was awarded an incentive of $2,009,298 on $6,453,717 of
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced Wednesday that it has completed milestones for its REACH-3MC Round II fiber-optic construction project. REACH-3MC Round II began in August 2010 when Merit received grant funding to construct 1,270 miles of fiber-optic infrastructure across 29 counties in Michigan's Northern Lower and Upper Peninsula with additional paths to key interconnection
LANSING ? The Michigan Strategic Fund has approved $1.85 million in Michigan Business Development Program incentives to three companies planning on spending $86 million to expand their operations and hire 600 new workers. The projects approved today: Detroit Diesel Corporation, a member of the Daimler group, is a leading manufacturer of heavy duty diesel engines
SOUTHFIELD - Brooks Kushman has established an Open Sourcing Management practice group. Brooks Kushman's OSM group helps companies understand and select OSS, and comply with OSS license terms. As an intellectual property law firm, Brooks Kushman can assist organizations in this area both to identify a company?s current and future OSS status, as well as
WASHINGTON DC - The National Security Agency has a secret program that allows it to see just about everything a person does on the Internet, according to a new report. NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who is still holed up in a Moscow airport, has reportedly leaked to The Guardian new details on a high-powered, secret
LANSING - Internet retailing giant Amazon has established several physical presences in Michigan, and under Michigan's own definition, should be assessed sales and use tax, the Michigan Retailers Association has urged the Department of Treasury. In several letters, one issued earlier this month and one in July 2012, MRA President James Hallan said Amazon has
LONDON - Computers manufactured by the world's biggest personal computer maker, Lenovo, have been banned from the ?secret? and top secret - networks of the intelligence and defense services of Australia, the US, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand, because of concerns they are vulnerable to being hacked. Multiple intelligence and defense sources in Britain and