ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan students' school email will look a lot like their personal Gmail accounts next week. The school finalized an agreement with Google in October to transfer its email, calendar systems and other collaborative tools to the Google platform. The switch to Google - dubbed the NextGen Collaboration Project - is
BARCELONA, Span - Tech will be in the driver's seat, steering the auto industry into a future with coordinated networks of self-driving cars. Without it, expect "global gridlock" to paralyze cities, Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford predicted at the Mobile World Congress mobile-technology show. Ford predicts a future, though, in which computing and
ANN ARBOR ? The University of Michigan is leading a $2.4 million statewide program aimed at turning inventions in the classroom into marketable products by increasing the supply of seasoned entrepreneurs. The Tech Transfer Talent Network, funded through a grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, includes seven universities and regions with strong research-based technology
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Michigan and other states to require the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to take several immediate steps to prevent the introduction of Asian carp into the Great Lakes. Attorney General Bill Schuette and his colleagues in other states had asked the court to
DETROIT - A significant shift in support occurred after Wednesday's debate between the Republican presidential candidates in Michigan to the benefit of Mitt Romney, according to a new poll out Friday. Romney now has 39 percent to 31 percent for Rick Santorum, according to the survey from the Foster McCollum White and Associates and Baydoun
DETROIT - Challenge Detroit said Thursday that Credit Acceptance Corp. chairman and founder, Donald A. Foss, has personally pledged $500,000 to the initiative focused on revitalizing Detroit by attracting young entrepreneurs to the city. ?Challenge Detroit is dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship and has a passion for revitalizing Detroit through this program. This initiative is very
ADA - Worldwide sales of Amway products jumped 17 percent to a record $10.9 billion, corporate parent Alticor reported Thursday, the sixth consecutive year of growth for the company. The 17 percent increase over 2010 sales of $9.2 billion was driven by broad global growth in sales from Russia to Thailand. The privately held company
LANSING - Where students at Highland Park schools will end up for the rest of the academic year is still an open question after the Michigan House and Senate pushed through an emergency bill late Thursday afternoon. Those who show up to their classroom on Monday may not see many teachers, and if there are
LANSING - Michigan's urban areas could lead the state to a new recovery with some readjustment of the state's economic development priorities, a report commissioned by Business Leaders for Michigan said. The report, Michigan's Urban and Metropolitan Strategy, developed by Public Sector Consultants and the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, said Michigan's cities already lead
CLIMAX - Stephen Jessup, principal of the Jessup Group, is a Battle Creek native who used to travel to large cities for his healthcare accounting business. But when CTS Telecom Inc. installed high-speed optic fiber to a building in his hometown, he cut back on his travel and did more business with his clients in