SAN FRANCISCO - Best Buy, Amazon, Verizon, and Dell launched Cyber Monday deals featuring discounted laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Best Buy is calling its sale "Cyber Week" and puts Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard, and Toshiba laptops at the top of the list on its launch page. All three come with Windows 7 Home Premium, CNET News. Com
DETROIT - State and federal officials Monday announced a $2.1 million federal grant for a collaborative effort to create new jobs and technologies related to the rapidly emerging advanced energy storage system in Southeast Michigan. The Michigan Economic Development Corporation will award up to $500,000 in Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge funds in support of
CHICAGO - U.S. Consumers spent $816 million online on Black Friday, a 26 percent increase over 2010's Black Friday, according to ComScore data released today. The results buttress numbers released Saturday by IBM Coremetrics that showed online sales on Black Friday grew by 24.3 percent compared with the same period last year. Some 50 million
SAN FRANCISCO - In addition to the usual online scams designed to defraud shoppers during the holiday season, several malls will be tracking people via their cell phones. Beginning on Black Friday, Promenade Temecula, south of Los Angeles, and Short Pump Town Center in Richmond, Va., will be monitoring signals from shoppers' cell phones, CNN
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc. is targeting dates between April 2012 and June 2012 for an initial public offering of its stock, said people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. Facebook is in internal discussions over the timing of its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the IPO, and is
LANSING - As retailers entered holiday shopping mode in October more than half expected higher sales than the year prior - 45 percent of them got their wish, according to the Michigan Retail Index. The index, a joint survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Michigan Retailers Association, found along with the 45
ANN ARBOR - WriteSteps, an Ann Arbor-based K-5 writing program focused on innovative writing improvement programs for students, announced that it has incorporated the new Common Core State Standards into its programs, in an effort to prepare students for national writing tests that will begin with the 2014-2015 school year. Forty-five states have now embraced
LANSING - Voters hold former President George W. Bush and former Governor Jennifer Granholm responsible for the state of Michigan's economy, not President Barack Obama, nor Governor Rick Snyder, according to a Gongwer News Service poll. The poll showed that 40 percent blamed Granholm, 34 percent blamed Bush, 7 percent blamed Obama and just 5
DEARBORN ? Ypsilanti-based De Novo Sciences, a company developing an alternative to traditionally painful and invasive biopsies, won the $500,000 grand prize Thursday night at the $1 million Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition. Runner-up was Fusion Coolant Systems Inc., a company spun out of the University of Michigan that provides an advanced coolant and lubrication system
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan economy will add 63,000 total net jobs in 2011 and another 77,000 jobs over the next two years, say University of Michigan economists. "For Michigan, 2011 will go down as a year of solid job growth and one that saw the higher-wage segment of the labor market grow more rapidly