DETROIT ? If you want to submit a crime tip anonymously to the Detroit Police Department, there?s now an app for that. Detroit Labs has churned out yet another smart phone application, this one for the DPD that provides information about the city and departments, allows tips to be submitted anonymously through the app and
SAGINAW TOWNSHIP ? Suniva has announced it will recruit another 75 people by mid-January to work at its factory near Saginaw, formerly a Sears Warehouse, joining about 30 people who already are building high efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells and modules. Suniva has partnered with Great Lakes Bay Michigan Works! Qualified candidates will take the
WASHINGTON - The FBI still can't prove who was - or wasn't - behind last month's cyberattack on Sony Pictures, which led to the theft of thousands of documents and revealed confidential information about the company and its employees. "There is no attribution to North Korea at this point," said Joe Demarest, assistant director of
ANN ARBOR - Stewart Thornhill, executive director of the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, looks into his crystal ball for 2015 and sees technology continuing to shake up the business world. Here are his predictions: The war for connected wearables heats up The broader trend
LANSING - The Michigan Film Office on Monday announced the approval of film and digital media incentives for the final five projects of fiscal year 2014, bringing its year-end totals to 27 projects awarded more than $63.7 million in incentives. The Film Office said the incentives would generate more than $245.4 million of projected expenditures
LANSING - The Michigan House narrowly approved bills Thursday to remove the sales tax from gasoline over six years, a move that would deny schools and local governments hundreds of millions of dollars they otherwise would receive, and switch to a percentage-based wholesale tax on gasoline that tops off at 13.5 percent to raise money
LANSING - Unemployment rates in 16 of Michigan's 17 labor markets fell in October when compared to September, figures released Tuesday by the Department of Technology, Management and Budget showed. Only in the Detroit-Warren-Livonia market, the state's largest, did October's unemployment rate remain unchanged from the 8.1 percent in September, the state said. The jobless
WARREN ? If you want to meet the ITINTheD.Com gang, as well as donate a new toy to a Southeast Michigan boy or girl in need, then the next ITINTheD in-person networking event Thursday Dec. 11 at Falling Down Beer Company is where you want to be. ITINTheD.Com is teaming up with Operation Kid Equip
LIVONIA - The tight talent market in Michigan is driving employers to increase variable compensation programs - better known as incentive pay - in order to compete for and retain high-performing employees, a recent survey contends. The survey shows in 2014, by the American Society of Employers, with 73 percent of employers offering bonuses to
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor has been chosen by Global Trade magazine as one of "America's Best Cities for Global Trade". Ann Arbor was recognized for being a hub for innovative research and education, and for having one of the lowest unemployment rates in Michigan. Every year, the editors at Global Trade magazine compile the