ANN ARBOR - Seven Michigan companies have received a combined total of more than $232,000 through the Michigan Microloan Fund Program, bringing the total amount loaned through the Fund to more than $2.8 million. ?This latest round of Michigan Microloan Fund Program investments support an impressive range of innovations from around the state,? said Skip
LANSING - Michigan would pay nothing under the terms of the Crossing Agreement with Canada to build the new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan House Fiscal Agency. Other analyses of the proposal have been done, but usually they have been funded by organizations with a vested interested
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. military has the ability to act pre-emptively when it detects an imminent cyberattack threat, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned. During his first major policy speech on cybersecurity, Panetta echoed previous statements that the United States was facing the possibility of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor" perpetrated by foreign hackers, painting a grim
ANN ARBOR -The University of Michigan Tech Transfer Officer set a record in fiscal 2012 with 123 licenses and options, up from 101 in fiscal 2011. Researchers also reported 368 new inventions in FY12, which ended on June 30, another record high, demonstrating the broadened participation of U-M faculty in tech transfer activities. Eleven new
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder appears open to expanding Medicaid coverage under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as a study to be released Sunday showed the state could save $1 billion over 10 years by expanding the program. The state currently has 1.9 million people in its Medicaid program, and expanding eligibility
DETROIT - Democrats and Republicans alike say they are flabbergasted at the discussions occurring between the United Auto Workers and Moroun family about a deal in which the UAW would back the ballot proposal sought by the Morouns designed to block the proposed new bridge to Canada in exchange for the Morouns supporting the collective
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation Thursday announced a second year of financial assistance to Michigan small and medium businesses for export-related activities through the Pure Michigan export incentive program. ?My recent trip to China reaffirmed that foreign countries offer new markets, distributorships and other business partnerships to Michigan companies. The Pure Michigan export
LANSING - A new forecast published by the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics at the University of Michigan projects continued slow job growth in Michigan through 2014, by which time the state may have recouped just one-third of the jobs it lost during the decade-long recession. The forecast said that after job growth at a
GRAND RAPIDS - Davenport University announced it is developing two new degree programs for its College of Technology - a Master of Science in Technology Management and a Bachelor of Science in Digital Forensics. ?We are excited to be developing these new programs to help Davenport students get where the world is going in the
STAMFORD, Conn. - Worldwide PC shipments totaled 87.5 million units in the third quarter of 2012, a decline of 8.3 percent compared with the third quarter of 2011, according to preliminary results by Gartner. "A continuing slowdown in consumer PC shipments played a big part in the overall PC market decline," said Mikako Kitagawa, principal