GRAND RAPIDS - The West Michigan Science & Technology Initiative has expanded its membership program previously known as BioTech Connect. Now it's called Connect2, a collection of more than 100 companies, corporations and organizations. WMSTI officials said the new name was selected to better reflect the wide range of industries served by the program, and
DETROIT - Automation Alley members will soon have the opportunity to rent 5000 square feet of dedicated space at TechTown, the Wayne State University research and technology park - in a new partnership that could redefine what entrepreneurial supports groups can do in Michigan. In exchange, Automation Alley will provide TechTown with what the technology
ANN ARBOR - Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan. Cloud computing refers to applications and services provided seamlessly on the Internet. Traditional antivirus software is installed on millions of individual computers
SAN FRANCSICO - Twitter's time has finally come. The microblogging service, once the playground of the Web 2.0 digerati, is now mainstream enough to be targeted by online criminals. Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a fake Twitter profile created solely for the purpose of infecting people's computers, CNET News.Com reported. The profile, with an alias that
DETROIT - After a rash of negative publicity, biofuels backers say that advanced technologies will reshape the industry, making ethanol from sustainably grown sources cost-effective within a few years. General Motors on Friday convened a panel of experts from cutting-edge ethanol companies that described different technologies--acid hydrolysis, specialty microbes, and genetically engineered energy crops--which they
WASHINGTON DC - The Federal Reserve, on Tuesday held overnight interest rates charged its largest customers - primarily banks - at 2 percent, while indicating it had continued worries about weaker economic growth ahead. In a statement accompanying its decision, the Fed sought to straddle the line between continuing inflation concerns and the risk of
LANSING - The full U.S. Senate approved the Great Lakes Compact on Thursday, leaving U.S. House approval and the president's signature as the final obstacles for a proposal that has bounced around the region since eight governors approved framework for the measure in late 2005. The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact is
LANSING - Processing an initiative petition to amend the Constitution is essentially a ministerial duty that does not include having the state review a proposed amendment to see if it is constitutional, the state said in its reply to the lawsuit attempting to stop placement of the Reform Michigan Government Now! proposal on the November
AUBURN HILLS - Chrysler LLC on Monday named Jan Bertsch, Senior Vice President Treasurer and Chief Information Officer, to lead the automaker's efforts to consolidate Information Technology Management and Treasury into a new integrated structure. Under this integrated structure, Bertsch is responsible for the Company's global treasury operations. She continues to direct the Company's systems
GRAND RAPIDS - Researchers in the Laboratory of Structural Sciences at Van Andel Institute have determined how the parathyroid hormone, which is currently used to treat osteoporosis, precisely binds to its receptor. Drug developers can use this information to aid in the design of more potent therapies for osteoporosis that lack the undesired side effects