LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder will get the personal property tax phase-out he wanted, but only if voters approve it as the administration won a hard-fought effort for legislative passage. Thursday was a wild day for the personal property tax legislation as it emerged that the plan had serious problems in the House, resulting in
KALAMAZOO - Michigan will get about $1.3 million from Pfizer in a deceptive marketing practice settlement with 33 states, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Bill Schuette said. The settlement resolves allegations that the New York-based drugmaker engaged in deceptive marketing practices in relation to two of its drugs, Zyvox and Lyrica. The judgment awarding Michigan's
GRAND RAPIDS ? West Michigan will see a 1.2 percent bump in employment growth in 2013 followed by another 1.6 percent in 2014, lead by manufacturing and service jobs, so says economist George Erickcek in his annual forecast he prepared for the Right Place 2013 Economic Outlook for West Michigan. Goods producings jobs, which include
LANSING ? MGTV, which provides video access to state government, will transition from a part-time cable TV show to a web portal starting New Year?s Day, the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget and Michigan Government Television announced Friday. MGTV has served as the part-time, non-commercial cable channel providing programming from 10 a.m. to
WASHINGTON DC - FBI credits the social-networking giant with helping take down the suspects behind one of the largest cybercrime hauls in history. Facebook helped the FBI take down an international crime ring that used a botnet to infect 11 million computers and steal more than $850 million, one of the largest cybercrime hauls in
SAN FRANCISCO - The threat is minimal, but perhaps costly for those who fall for it. The Russian security firm Dr. Web has uncovered another malware attempt on OS X systems that tries to exploit users with SMS fraud. The new malware is a Trojan horse, dubbed "Trojan.SMSSend.3666," and is part of a family of
NORTHVILLE - DataFactZ, a Northville based highly specialized system and data integration company, donated two large boxes filled with new toys as well as $1,500 to the Ennis Center for Children, a non-profit that works with abused and neglected children in Pontiac and four other Southeastern Michigan locations. Each December, the Ennis Center strives to
LANSING - A strong majority of Michigan adults believe that a college education is important for a successful career, according to the latest State of the State Survey from Michigan State University. ?About 72 percent of those questioned in the phone survey said that a college education is very important for Michigan?s young people to
HOLLAND - Information technology workers remain in high demand in West Michigan. About 60 percent of responding companies plan to hire tech staffers in the next six months, continuing at the level of the past twelve months. Over two-thirds of small companies (fewer than 50 employees) will add IT staff. There will be three times
LANSING - Liquid Web, a rapidly expanding managed hosting company with hubs in Michigan and Arizona, just announced updates to its recently introduced block storage product, Storm HPBS. HPBS stands for ?High Performance Block Storage,? and consists of isolated storage volumes, ranging from 150GB to 15TB in size, that can be attached and detached from