LANSING - Michigan was a long way out of the top 16 in its application for federal "Race to the Top" grant funds, and the dispute between the Michigan Education Association and Department of Education over the document and the plan behind it appears to have been a primary reason for that poor showing. While
ANN ARBOR ? If you want to participate in the May Ann Arbor SPARK Entrepreneur Boot Camp, you have to apply by April 1. If you?re accepted, you'll spend two days and evenings learning how to identify critical issues for your business plan. Entrepreneur Boot Camp is an intensive and instructive way to gain critical
GRAND RAPIDS - Grand Rapids Community College created Tuesday the first American training center for a top European turbine safety program. College leaders signed a deal with companies based in the United Kingdom and Spain, creating a center training employees to work on off- and on-shore wind energy machinery, The Grand Rapids Press reported. The
DETROIT - A new resource for Metro Detroit residents, business leaders and communities looking for ideas on sustainability, green products and services is now available through GreeningDetroit.Com. Developers launched the site as a resource to help protect and prepare the environment for the next generation, a ?green? generation. GreeningDetroit.com is a unique resource to help
BIRMINGHAM - Wired's ThreatLevel reported that a disgruntled ex-employee of a car dealership in Austin, Texas, used a black box lock-out device on over a hundred vehicles to disable them or make their horns sound. The service he used is provided by Payment Technologies in Cleveland. The product is well thought out with safety features
CUPERTINO - Apple is developing a new iPhone to debut this summer and also appears to be working on a model for U.S. mobile phone operator Verizon Wireless, sources told the Wall Street Journal Monday. While Apple has unveiled a new iPhone every June or July since launching the product in 2007, the new model
LANSING - The final bills in a legislative package to allow motorists to pay a $10 fee when they renew their annual vehicle registration to receive a permit to use any state park or boating access site are on their way to Gov. Jennifer Granholm. The Passport Bill, SB 389, passed last Thursday in the
LANSING - The Michigan Senate made a major change Thursday to legislation that would ban motorists from texting while driving as they made the violation a primary offense, allowing police to ticket drivers for texting without having to first pull them over for committing another infraction. What made the move so surprising is that the
LANSING ? If you're a business executive that wants to compete in the second round of the Emerging 200 Initiative developed by the Small Business Administration, you need to apply by close of business March 31. Last year, 16 Detroit-based small businesses successfully completed this in-depth training program for senior executives. Graduates of the program
NEW YORK - In the basement of the HarperCollins building in midtown Manhattan, headquarters of Global Rainmakers, a group of physicists and computer engineers are hunting identity thieves. Their weapon: an agile and inexpensive iris scanner that can identify people at a glance with a nearly zero margin of error. Hector Hoyos, Global Rainmakers' founder,