ANN ARBOR - Blaze Medical Devices, which is developing novel blood analysis technologies, announced that it has been awarded a $200,000 Phase I SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health in collaboration with University of Michigan Health System?s Blood Bank. The focus of this grant is to study the strength of correlation between red
DETROIT - Gov. Rick Snyder unveiled the Michigan Cyber Initiative 2015 to an audience of nearly 700 information technology experts and professionals on Monday during what he billed as the North American International Cyber Summit in Detroit. Snyder, who was re-elected earlier this month for a second four-year term, outlined an ambitious plan over the
LANSING - Long-stymied efforts to increase funding for Michigan's battered roads won a momentous victory Thursday in the Senate with the passage of legislation that hopes to eventually raise more than $1 billion through doubling the gasoline tax. It took several attempts on an updated version of the bill it last attempted to pass in
WASHINGTON DC - In the wake of President Obama's call for the Federal Communications Commission to adopt tighter regulations to preserve a free and open Internet, the agency's chairman is reportedly considering a different tack. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said during a meeting Monday with executives from major Internet companies that he was considering an
LANSING ? You know when we told you last week that you had to get your nominations in by Nov. 7 for the 2015 Small Business Innovation Awards and the Michigan Celebrates Small Business? Well, the deadline has been extended to this Friday, Nov. 14. So there?s still time to nominate your favorite company, even
DETROIT ? John Bailey, founder of John Bailey & Associates Public Relations, has come out of retirement to join Truscott Rossman as its first business strategist. Bailey sold his PR firm to Lambert, Edwards & Associates, a West Michigan public and investor relations agency, in Aug. 2009. Bailey, a member of the Public Relations Society
SAN FRANCISCO - Hackers have a new way to break into Apple mobile devices using Web pages, text messages and emails to fool users into downloading fake apps that can leak their information, according to a new report from cybersecurity company FireEye. There's no evidence hackers have started doing this in the US, but FireEye
WASHINGTON DC - President Obama came out strongly Monday for the concept of net neutrality, saying that "an open Internet is essential to the American economy, and increasingly to our very way of life." In a written statement, Obama asked the Federal Communications Commission to "create a new set of rules protecting net neutrality," and
BEIJING - The U.S. and China reached an agreement to drop tariffs on a wide range of technology products, according to a senior U.S. trade official, in a deal that its backers say could cover $1 trillion in trade. The U.S. has been pushing to include medical devices, advanced semiconductors and other items in the
LANSING - Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville on Thursday said he is hopeful that people will work together and set a good tone for the next term that he will not be a part of, and that could start with a vote on a comprehensive solution to funding the state's $1 billion-plus problem with infrastructure