EAST LANSING - As the nation elected a new president, Michigan citizens were as uneasy about the economy as they had been in more than a decade, the latest State of the State Survey shows. Michigan citizens described their financial circumstances in the weakest terms in the survey's 15 years, said Charles Ballard, Ph.D., MSU
TROY - Midwest Technology Leaders is asking for nominations for the 2009 Midwest Collaboration Award, created in 2005 to identify, create, support and honor partnerships between Midwest company and local groups and individuals that benefited the technology community. Information technology is one of the fastest growing sectors of the Midwest economy. As the regional economy
ANN ARBOR - The deadline to apply for the spring competition of Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest is 5 pm March 30. You do not have to submit your executive summary or business plan with your application. But if you register, you'll get a shot at winning the grand prize of $25,000 and move into the
SAN FRANCISCO - Online scammers are making a lucrative business out of redirecting visitors from legitimate Web sites to sites that try to install rogue antivirus software, according to a report due to be released by security firm Finjan on Monday. Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center came across a traffic management server in Ukraine used
LANSING - Michigan would start spending $2 billion of its federal stimulus dollars under a supplemental that passed the House Thursday. But Republicans held up giving HB 4258 immediate effect, arguing more accountability measures need to be added before the bill heads to the governor's desk. The bill passed on a vote of 92-16. The
LANSING - For the second time in as long as Democrats have controlled the House, legislation repealing state lawsuit protections for pharmaceutical companies has been passed. But a measure allowing residents harmed by a drug since 1996, when the protection was enacted, to retroactively sue saw the narrowest support in the chamber. Eleven Democrats joined
LANSING - In unanimously approving an income tax credit for persons buying a house in the state, the Senate last week apparently unwittingly approved a total tax cut of better than $2.6 billion for the current and next two fiscal years. An analysis of the passed version of SB 346 , now in the House,
WASHINGTON DC - Now small businesses that need surety bonds to compete for construction and service contracts can qualify for U.S. Small Business Administration-backed surety bonds of up to $5 million. The higher amount, a result of the Recovery Act, is more than double the previous $2 million maximum surety bond guaranteed by SBA. Through
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Google said Thursday it would cut about 200 jobs in sales and marketing, in the third set of layoffs in three months for the company. The search engine company did not say if the layoffs would impact its AdWords headquarters in Ann Arbor. But n a post on the company?s blog, sales
WASHINGTON DC - President Barack Obama last month handed his auto-industry team a seemingly impossible task: to engineer the most complicated industrial restructuring ever attempted by the federal government, and to do it fast. With almost no experience in the car business, the team's dozen core members have undergone a crash course in the myriad