DETROIT - Changes under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to U.S. Small Business Administration loan programs has led to a rebound in SBA-backed loans for small businesses and greater access to much needed capital. The SBA Michigan District Office statistics for October show a significant increase in both dollar amounts and the number of
LANSING - In a move to stave off some of the budget cuts hitting K-12 schools, the Michigan House approved a supplemental Thursday that would tap federal stimulus funds and yet-to-be-approved state revenues in order to reduce the governor's $127 per-student proration and restore funding for higher-funded schools and early education programs. Gov. Jennifer Granholm
LANSING - About $6.9 million in funding for horse racing programs vetoed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm would be restored under a bill that passed the Senate on Thursday. The bill (HB 4311 ) replaces all but $1.7 million of the funding Granholm vetoed in the 2009-10 fiscal year budget for those programs. It uses money
LANSING ? AT&T Michigan has been ordered by an Ingham County Circuit Court judge to pay ACD Telecom $7,994.590 for breach of contract. From January 2003 to December 2003 AT&T offered to enter into a "Mutual Waiver Agreement," or MWA, with Michigan CLECs. Under the MWA, the parties agreed that they would not charge termination
DETROIT - Eastern Michigan University's Center for Regional and National Security hosted a day-long security seminar in October that matched security students with business that need security services. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
DETROIT - Clean Emissions Fluids, a Wayne State University on TechTown Tenant, has come up with a revolutionary way to deliver biofuels of many kinds to gasoline service stations. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
DETROIT - B.A. Maze, which makes devices to more easily remove caps from such products as medicine bottles, has landed a major new distributor, Bed, Bath & Beyond. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
DETROIT - Wayne State University's TechTown will soon open its Stem Cell Commercialization Center to help find cures for some of the world's killer diseases, including cancer. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
WASHINGTON DC - For the last decade or so, Internet service providers have been dealing with requests to block access to pornographic or copyright-infringing Web sites, or in China, ones that dare to criticize the government. Now a U.S. House of Representatives bill is taking the unusual step of requiring Internet providers to block access
SAN FRANCISCO - T-Mobile said on Wednesday that a software glitch was to blame for a massive outage on Tuesday that left many customers unable to send or receive calls or text messages. "After investigating the cause, we have determined that a back-end system software error had generated abnormal congestion on the network," T-Mobile said