DETROIT - Software maker Compuware Corp on Wednesday posted first-quarter results above market estimates, helped by a 30 percent jump in software license fees revenue. On Thursday, the company?s stock was nearly 5 percent higher on Wall Street. Compuware posted first-quarter earnings of $34.7 million, or 13 cents a share, compared with $189,000, or breakeven
LANSING - Charging that supporters of the Reform Michigan Government Now effort cannot seriously claim their campaign efforts did not begin in 2007, the Michigan Chamber of Commerce filed a campaign finance complaint against the organization demanding that the state order it to no longer violate state law. The complaint relies on the PowerPoint presentation
LANSING - The Michigan House on Wednesday rejected Senate changes to a main piece of energy legislation altering the regulation of the state's electric market, sending the measure to conference committee. Senate and House leaders are planning a mid-August session to deal with the legislation, providing an agreement is reached by then. House conferees were
LANSING - The Michigan House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved two bills that would increase penalties for identity thieves by including felony convictions under racketeering laws and by allowing law enforcement to seize property from felons in the same way they currently take the valuables involved in narcotics crimes. HB 5953 expands the definition of
WASHINGTON - A majority of commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission have reached a deal to approve Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.'s long-pending purchase of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. The final hold-out, Republican commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate, agreed to vote to approve the deal after winning several concessions from
DETROIT - Tony Scott, the former chief technology officer for General Motors, who now works as the chief information officer for Microsoft, talks about the five fundamentals all CIOs need to know. Scott was a keynote speaker at the Midwest Technology Leaders Conference. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
NEW ORLEANS - A study looking at the potential impact of global warming on the states has projected that Michigan could see an impact in terms of billions of dollars in lost trade as a result of lower Great Lakes levels alone. The report, which looks at the impact on a number of other states
LANSING - The Strategic Economic Investment and Commercialization Board received 117 applications, in the final count, for the current year round of 21st Century Jobs Fund investments that will divvy up $30 million. But at least two and as many as 26 of those proposals will not be reviewed because they did not meet the
LANSING - Plenty has been said to date of the Reform Michigan Government Now's proposal to reduce the size of the Legislature, but how will the Senate decide who runs for two-year terms in 2010 and who runs for four-year terms in that election, as the proposal requires? What does it mean within the proposal
LANSING - Michigan's population growth has slowed significantly from the period of 2000-06, but ironically the population of young adults increased during that time period even as officials worry about the loss of young people to other states, according to a report issued Monday by the Land Policy Institute at Michigan State University. In fact,