ANN ARBOR - The Michigan economy will add 63,000 total net jobs in 2011 and another 77,000 jobs over the next two years, say University of Michigan economists. "For Michigan, 2011 will go down as a year of solid job growth and one that saw the higher-wage segment of the labor market grow more rapidly
SEATTLE - Thursday at the 24th annual SC Conference researchers demonstrated advancements in developing 100 Gbps networks within the U.S. and internationally that are necessary for the next generation of research and discovery. ?Next generation science increasingly requires investigations based on extremely large volumes of data that must be transported across wide distances with exceptionally
ANN ARBOR - Consumers have low expectations for the near-term U.S. economic outlook because they still believe the country is in a recession despite it officially being over for more than two years, the research professor and director of consumer surveys for Thomson Reuters said Thursday. Richard Curtin said while policymakers have tried unemployment benefit
ANN ARBOR - Although talk of a double-dip recession has subsided, the U.S. economy will still only grow moderately over the next two years, economists at the University of Michigan's Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics said Thursday. It's expected the U.S. Gross Domestic Product will increase 1.8 percent this year and economists said to expect
SAN FRANCISCO - A new survey indicates that 55 percent of users globally, and 64 percent in the U.S., are leveraging Next-Generation Firewalls to augment their current security deployments, rather than replacing legacy technology. The survey, conducted by Ponemon Institute, and sponsored by Sourcefire, also highlights the need for NGFWs to prioritize quality of Intrusion
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems Inc., provider of Plex Online FSMS, the leading enterprise Food Safety Management System, announced its latest food safety webinar on Dec. 1 called Getting Started with GFSI: Implementation Strategies and Tips. Presented by Jeff Chilton, president and founder of Chilton Consulting Group Inc., this webinar is the latest in the
TROY ? Walsh College is offering a lunchtime webinar on Nov. 18 to busy working professionals interested in pursuing an online master's degree in Information Assurance, or a related certificate program. MSIA program overview: course / program content, available careers, etc. IASP Scholarships available to MSIA students IA certificate program overview: offerings and courses Online
DETROIT - Gov. Rick Snyder, speaking at the Michigan Emerging conference on Monday, once again highlighted his five keys to reinventing Michigan. The first term Republican governor also defended his decision to do away with most state tax breaks, saying his simplified business tax code has already begun paying dividends by creating new jobs. Snyder
LANSING - In what environmentalists view as a threat to efforts by Michigan and other Great Lake states to control the introduction of new invasive species to those waters, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a U.S. Coast Guard funding bill Tuesday that sets a lesser ballast water standard than Michigan and other states now
LANSING - Five years of Pure Michigan national advertising is just beginning to buff up the state's rust-belt image. After the state had spent $67 million for the slick campaign featuring the voice of Michigan native Tim Allen, a survey done for the state found that Michigan still ranked in the middle of the pack