LANSING - In a surprise move on Tuesday, Governor Rick Snyder announced that Nick Khouri, a vice president at DTE Energy and a former chief deputy treasurer, will become Michigan's new treasurer. Khouri succeeds current Treasurer Kevin Clinton who is stepping down from the post he took in 2013 to rejoin the private sector, somewhere
DETROIT ? In the episode of the Internet Advisor, hosts Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Shane Hamelin and Foster Braun look at the Apple Spring forward event and ask was it really about Apple Watch or even about the 12-inch MacBook Retina? Rick Broida, the Gadget Guy and Cheapskate blogger, joins us in studio to give
ANN ARBOR ? MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan reads the top headlines from last week?s MITechNews.Com Weekly eNewsletter, including Engineering Society of Detroit?s new executive director, Robotics Day coming up on April 9 on the University of Michigan North Campus in Ann Arbor, 53 teams to compete in the Restaurant ProStart Culinary Competition. To listen, Click
ANN ARBOR ? MichBio's Jobs Bank has added two new Life Sciences positions, an Inside Sales Account Manager in Ann Arbor and a Chemical Production Engineer in Fraser. Inside Sales Account Manager Gene Codes Corporation - Ann Arbor Gene Codes is a worldwide leader in developing bioinformatics solutions for DNA Sequence Analysis. Our primary product
EAST LANSING ? Three Michigan State University College of Engineering researchers are developing a new technology known as substrate computing that could let a bridge or dam sense a structural defect before it happens. Substrate computing will allow sensing, communication and diagnostic computing, all within the substrate ? the building material ? of a structure,
GRAND RAPIDS ? Davenport University has named Pamela R. Imperato, Ph.D., as Dean of the Donald W. Maine College of Business and of the College of Technology. She will start in July. Imperato comes to Davenport from Bellevue University in Nebraska where she has served as Dean of the College of Business, overseeing 24 academic
WASHIGTON DC - The US Senate Intelligence Committee approved a controversial cyberscurity bill last week that's designed to help companies and the federal government better defend against the growing threat of data breaches. Approved by a 14-1 vote, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) aims - by providing expanded legal liability protections to companies sharing
WASHINGTON DC - The hackers who breached JPMorgan Chase's cyberdefenses to gain access to 83 million records may soon be caught. Federal investigators are closing in on the hackers responsible for last summer's hack on the banking and investment firm and feel confident that indictments could be coming down soon, the New York Times reported
AUSTIN, Texas - Turns out nobody can remember their Yahoo passwords. Now the company wants to make it so no one has to. Yahoo on Sunday launched a new service called "on-demand" passwords, which lets someone log into a Yahoo account using a short password the company texts to their phone instead of having to
ANN ARBOR - When developing an idea into a medical business product, addressing the reimbursement strategy at the onset should not be ignored. Entrepreneurs need to create a clinical use scenario for their product so that they can best determine what patients will be using the product, what providers will be prescribing it and what