DETROIT - Detroit Edison has issued a Request for Proposal to add more Michigan-based renewable power to the company's energy portfolio. The notice of intent to bid is due Jan. 21, 2011. The utility is seeking about 245 megawatts of renewable energy from wind, solar, hydro, biomass or landfill gas facilities that would be operating
ANN ARBOR - While the nation's economy will gain some momentum in the second half of next year, it will take until 2012 before unemployment finally begins to subside, say economists at the University of Michigan. After losing more than 8 million payroll jobs from the end of 2007 to the end of 2009?the highest
ANN ARBOR - A team of 14 autonomous robots built by University of Michigan students has won an international competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and its Australian counterpart, officials announced in Brisbane. U-M's team of more than 20 students, mostly from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, won a $750,000 grant
ANN ARBOR - After losing nearly 850,000 jobs since 2000, the Michigan economy will gain jobs next year for the first time in more than a decade, say economists at the University of Michigan. "It is our sense that we are now approaching the turning point from negative to positive net job creation," said George
ANN ARBOR - The Great Recession may have technically ended with gross domestic product growing again, but consumer attitudes and expectations remain at such historically low levels that the current economic situation still resembles a recession, one of the nation's leading experts on consumer economic sentiment said Thursday. Unlike the 1990-91 and 2001 recessions, the
PORTAGE ? Manatron has been awarded the contracts for Iowa's Polk and Linn counties, which will use Manatron's GRM integrated property tax software and related professional services. No dollar value was announced. Through a competitive RFP process, Polk County selected Manatron. Polk, Iowa's largest county, which also includes the state?s largest city (Des Moines), serves
NEW YORK - Gains in General Motors Co.'s shares Thursday allayed concerns that the revitalized car company had priced the shares too high in its initial public offering a day earlier. The shares were ahead 3.6 percent at $34.19 in 4 p.m. composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange, after opening at $35, a
NEW YORK - Though recent reports suggest retailers are optimistic about holiday sales and expect to see better year-over-year results, shoppers disagree and are planning to be more frugal than they were last year when it comes to holiday spending, according to a survey released today by global business-advisory firm AlixPartners LLP. The survey of
SAN FRANCISCO - With a new survey finding that half of the people polled plan to shop online for the holidays, security company Webroot offers some tips and tricks for staying safe in cyberspace. Among the more than 2,660 consumers surveyed in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia by Webroot, 55 percent said they do
WASHINGTON DC - The Stuxnet worm is a "wake-up call" because of its complexity and its aim at critical infrastructure systems, a Symantec director told a U.S. congressional committee Thursday. The malware is a milestone in many ways, Dean Turner, director of Symantec Security Response's Global Intelligence Network, said in testimony before the U.S. Senate