SAN FRANCSICO - While most Silicon Valley companies are keeping quiet about their thoughts on the cybersecurity bill, Mozilla has come out against the legislation. Other big name tech companies - Facebook, Microsoft, and Oracle - supporting the controversial Internet surveillance bill that passed in the House last week. "While we wholeheartedly support a more
LANSING - Critics of increasing enrollment in cyberschools pushed the idea Wednesday that the way SB 619 was amended at the last minute could actually allow for five times the number of students than supporters insisted it would, but the bill's backers and the administration say the 2 percent cap will be strictly enforced. Late
SALINE ? Automotive Components Holdings has reached a deal that will keep the ACH facility in Saline open for the foreseeable future. Faurecia will acquire the Saline business, which generates $1.1 billion annual sales [euro 835 million] supplying cockpit modules, instrument panels, door panels and center consoles for 12 vehicle programs assembled at eight Ford
LANSING - States across the country are largely showing continued improvement in their overall fiscal condition for the current 2011-12 fiscal year, a report from the National Conference of State Legislatures shows, with Michigan reporting a bit of a mixed picture on its performance. According to the report, Michigan is saying income tax collections are
LANSING - The new Secretary of State online services available at ExpressSOS.Com has topped one million transactions, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced Tuesday. ?There?s never a line online,? Johnson said. ?Many of our most popular transactions now can be done in minutes from the comfort of your own home or anywhere you have Internet
LANSING - A proposal to update Michigan's oldest, but most critical information technology systems, during the next five years was outlined Tuesday before the two legislative general government appropriations subcommittees. The proposal, made to the two subcommittees, by Chief Information Officer David Behen, accompanied an outline of the final report on Michigan's IT status and
LANSING - Users of prepaid wireless phones would have to pay a 911 surcharge when purchasing their phones and any future minutes under a bill reported unanimously Tuesday by the House Energy and Technology Committee. HB 5468 would require a surcharge of 1.92 percent per retail transaction to help fund 911 services in counties across
GRAND RAPIDS ? Rick DeVos, like his grandfather Richard DeVos, co-founder of Amway, is writing a new page in the entrepreneur rule book with the announcement Thursday of Start Garden, a $15 million investment fund ? the money is put up by the DeVos family ? that will invest $5,000 in two ideas each week,
LANSING - It is not the complete removal of the cap the Senate wanted, nor is it the incredibly large cap a House committee approved, but what passed the House unexpectedly Thursday was just enough of an expansion of cyberschools to win support on a 56-54 vote. "House Republicans today approved pro-student, pro-parent education reforms
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a controversial Internet surveillance bill, rejecting increasingly vocal arguments from critics that it would do more to endanger Americans' privacy than aid cybersecurity. By a vote of 248 to 168, a bipartisan majority approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, which would