LANSING - For Michigan's more than 10 million residents, the new federal economic stimulus package approved on Friday will mean $7 billion over the next two years for education, health care and infrastructure spending and a tax cut for working families. H.R. 1, which passed the U.S. House on a 246-183 vote, totals $787 billion
LANSING - Michigan's economy will continue to get worse Governor Jennifer Granholm said in releasing a proposed 2009-10 budget that would spend $8.9 billion in general funds and see layoffs of 1,500 state workers by the end of 2010. "The cuts and reforms I propose will be painful, but they are critical to help us
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. Valentine's Day is coming this weekend and instead of a bouquet of flowers, box of chocolates, or love notes, many lovers around the world are getting inundated with Valentine's Day related spam and e-cards. "It still fascinates me how successful Valentine's Day spam is," said Dave Marcus, security researcher and communications manager
RESTON, Va. - comScore released its Fourth Quarter 2008 retail e-commerce sales estimates, which showed that online retail spending declined 3 percent versus year ago, the first recorded quarter of negative growth since comScore began tracking e-commerce spending in 2001. Nonetheless, for the full year 2008, retail e-commerce grew 6 percent to $130.1 billion, but
SAN FRANCISCO - On Thursday, a coalition of tech companies and nonprofit groups ranging from Microsoft to ICANN, AOL, Symantec, F-Secure and Verisign announced that they've teamed up to put an end to the Conficker worm, also known as Downadup, that has infected as many as 12 million computers, Microsoft has even offered $250,000 to
LANSING - While a bleak picture is likely to be painted in the governor's 2009-10 budget, which will include layoffs as the proposal seeks overall general fund cuts of at least $600 million, it appears there will be no cuts to revenue sharing nor to Michigan's 28 community colleges. But the state's per-pupil foundation grant
GRAND RAPIDS - The Van Andel Institute has created an alliance with the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, which will share newly appointed VAI Research Director Jeffrey Trent to speed cancer research into commercialized products. Trent, Ph.D., will succeed founding VAI Research Director George Vande Woude, Ph.D., who stays on as head of the
DETROIT - Next Tuesday GM and Chrysler have to go before the US Treasury to prove they can be viable and get more government money. At the same time, the French government will give Renault, Peugeot, Citroen, and French auto suppliers nearly 8 billion Euros in aid, or about $10.5 billion. They get it as
LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm's budget proposal will be released to the public on Thursday, but top legislators and other officials have started to get a glimpse at what is being called "a grim" budget document. A spokesperson for Granholm said the administration will not outline any aspects of the budget before Thursday's presentation. But
LANSING - For the second year in a row, Michigan's tourism web site received more traffic than any other state tourism web site in the country - a record 11.7 million visits. Click-throughs to Michigan tourism industry Web sites also set a record, averaging 16,074 clicks per day. Among the custom category of the 50