LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder and the Republican-led Legislature appear well on their way to wrapping up the 2012-13 fiscal year budget by their self-imposed deadline of June 1 after they inked an agreement Wednesday on an overall framework for the budget that provides more funding for many programs than initially anticipated. The agreement calls
WASHINGTON DC - CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications. The FBI has recently formed a secretive surveillance unit with an ambitious goal: to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop
DETROIT - Compuware Corp. said Tuesday that its fiscal fourth-quarter profit fell 22 percent, and it gave a more somber outlook for the current year than analysts were expecting, but the company's revenue rose, and its shares climbed in aftermarket trading. Compuware, Michigan largest software company, offers products and services designed to help information technology
LANSING ? Five West Michigan businesses has granted grants, loans and other economic assistance Wednesday from the Michigan Strategic Fund that will generate up to $15.7 million in private investment and add 465 new jobs. ?These new investments show once more Michigan?s highly competitive business climate and tremendous workforce capabilities mean real opportunities for leading
LANSING ? The Michigan Economic Growth Authority Wednesday approved work plans for four brownfield redevelopment projects expected to generate $39.4 million in new investment and create or retain 512 direct jobs. ?These projects will help transform blighted, contaminated or functionally obsolete properties into a variety of new uses that will add jobs and diversify Michigan's
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder Tuesday urged eligible Michigan veterans to apply for a new federal program that will cover the cost of up to one year of training for in-demand jobs. To participate, a veteran must be between 35 and 60 years of age, unemployed, and enroll in training for one of more than
KALAMAZOO - Kalamazoo Valley Community College is offering its first Production Technician Academy May 29 which will provide free training to prepare for careers in Advanced Manufacturing. An informational session about the new Academy is set for May 23 at 5:30 at M-TEC at the Groves Campus of Kalamazoo Valley Community College, 7107 Elm Valley
YPSILANTI ? Michigan is rapidly evolving from a heavy manufacturing, unionized state into one where an entrepreneurial-oriented population understands each has the responsibility for manifesting their own future, said David Brophy, founder of the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium. ?Historically, people in this state never thought that way,? said Brophy, a professor at the Stephen M.
GRAND RAPIDS ? What makes Lean Entrepreneurship so different from more traditional business development is the market decides the value of the product or service developed, experts said Thursday during the Michigan Lean Startup Conference, sponsored by Start Garden. Brant Cooper, author of the popular Lean Startup book, ?The Entrepreneur?s Guide to Customer Development,? summed
LANSING - The State of Michigan Land Bank Fast Track Authority Board of Directors has approved and issued a Request for Proposal for the development of the former Michigan State Fairgrounds. ?This represents another in a series of positive moves forward for Detroit,? said Gov. Rick Snyder. ?The state is committed to working cooperatively to