WASHINGTON - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski on Monday outlined his plan for requiring Internet service providers to keep their networks open to legal content and external devices. The plan, which is a top priority of Internet advocates who aggressively supported President Barack Obama in his run for the White House, would put into
ANN ARBOR - The Detroit area could lose more jobs in 2009 than it has during the previous decade, but the economy could start to improve staring in 2010, two economists from the University of Michigan said Friday. That doesn't mean the region will see job growth next year, said George Fulton and Donald Grimes,
LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm is prepared to "assert her constitutional authority," administration sources said Thursday, and while no one would say the governor would outright veto an agreement cutting the 2009-10 general fund budget by $1.2 billion, they did say the agreement is not likely to take effect in its current form. Officials said
DETROIT - In today's economy, employers are confronted with a wide variety of labor, employment, employee benefits and immigration issues. Butzel Long will offer discussion and strategies for human resources managers, business owners, in-house attorneys, and anyone involved in human resources or employment issues during the firm's 22nd Annual Labor and Employment Law Forum on
LANSING - House Speaker Andy Dillon and other top House Democrats may have cut a budget deal with Senate Republicans, but rank-and-file Democratic representatives voiced growing concern Thursday against the substance of the deal and the possibility of getting enough votes to pass it. House Democrats met behind closed doors for two hours on the
DETROIT- According to the Wall Street Journal, Toyota is planning a $1 billion marketing push in the fourth quarter in the American market. The strategy was formulated in part by Akio Toyoda himself, and aims to invigorate the company's sagging North American operations. $1 billion is a huge amount of money for an automaker to
SAN FRANCISCO - The study released Tuesday by the security-focused SANS Institute states that the cybersecurity community is facing an epidemic of unpatched software, particularly widely used applications like Adobe Flash, Java and Microsoft programs like Word and PowerPoint. The report, which used data that vulnerability assessment firm Qualys collected from about 100 million scans
ANN ARBOR - Research spending at the University of Michigan in 2008-09 exceeded $1 billion for the first time, a 9.4 percent gain over the previous fiscal year. The federal government provided 64.4 percent of the funds, and federal research spending at the U-M rose 7.1 percent over 2007-08. The exact total was $1.02 billion.
FRANKFURT, Germany - Electric cars are all the rage at the Frankfurt auto show, and Renault is clearly out to grab the high ground. Renault introduced four different electric cars, in three different sizes. The smallest is the Twizy, a two-passenger city car with tandem seating. It's 2.3 meters long, about seven-and-a-half feet, and only
LANSING - Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop clarified comments he made earlier this morning to a Detroit radio station about the state of budget talks, saying he and House Speaker Andy Dillon have not agreed on a budget plan. However, Bishop (R-Rochester) said he and Dillon (D-Redford Twp.) have agreed to ask the House and