SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University will launch a bachelor's degree in robotics engineering this fall, what university officials described as the first undergraduate program of its kind in Michigan and only the second in the country. The interdisciplinary degree program blends mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science with robotics. In keeping with Lawrence Tech?s
WARREN ? Corp! magazine has named its Metropolitan Detroit 101 Best and Brightest Companies To Work For, a group of winners that practice innovative strategies and represent best practices in human resources in industries as diverse as automotive, insurance, hospitality, communications and nonprofit organizations. An independent research firm evaluates each company?s entry based on key
ANN ARBOR - The U.S. Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration announced a $250,000 grant award to Ann Arbor SPARK to support development of a business accelerator model that can be used by communities throughout the U.S. Initially, the model will be deployed in Washtenaw and Wayne counties, providing a full range of business development services
LANSING - A plan by Zeeland-based Gentex to hire 1,100 new employees over the next five years received support from the Michigan Economic Growth Authority on Tuesday as it approved a Michigan Business Tax credit for the jobs equal to $2.4 million. The credit will run for the next three years while the automotive parts
LANSING - A new website to launch Monday aims to be the home to all state-level data covering preschool through postsecondary education. The Center for Educational Performance and Information partnered with the Department of Education and intermediate school districts to complete the first phase of the site, on MISchoolData.Org Some of what can be found
DETROIT ? If you missed the WJR Newsradio 760 interview of MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan and cyber security expert Richard Stiennon discussing their new cyber crime novella, you can listen to it on demand. To listen to the 10-minute segment that provides the back story on Cyber Styletto ? an insider?s look at the cyber
EGHAM, United Kingdom - Worldwide sales of mobile devices to end users totaled 428.7 million units in the second quarter of 2011, a 16.5 percent increase from the second quarter of 2010, according to Gartner Inc. Sales of smartphones were up 74 percent year-on-year and accounted for 25 percent of overall sales in the second
HONG KONG - Hackers broke into the Hong Kong stock exchange news Web site today, forcing the exchange to suspend trading of seven companies, according to The Wall Street Journal. The affected companies, which included HSBC, Cathay Pacific Airways and the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing, which runs the bourse, had all released price-sensitive information
LANSING - Three organization representing retired workers have joined together in a brief before the Michigan Supreme Court arguing the recently enacted income tax on pensions is unconstitutional. The State Employees Retirement Association, the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association and AARP jointly made the argument to the court in an amicus brief. The
LANSING - This past spring the likelihood the United States would fall into another recession was at 10 percent in Lawrence Yun's mind; now that estimation has grown to 30 percent. Yun, the chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, told the National Conference of State Legislatures summit the "economic weapons" to combat a