SOUTHFIELD ? Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) have always been part of the Lawrence Technology University's curriculum, and now through a $20 million donation ? the largest ever received - LTU will create the Marburger STEM Center to expand those efforts. Earlier this week, LTU announced the $20 million anonymous donation and said the
LANSING - Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville on Thursday confirmed that a majority of the caucus desires to vote, whether that's yes or no, on the main Medicaid reform and expansion bill that has loomed over senators all summer. "I don't think we were ready last time," Richardville (R-Monroe) said in a phone interview, referring
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft co-founder Steve Ballmer will retire from his role as CEO within the next 12 months, the software giant announced Friday. Ballmer will remain as chief executive until the board chooses someone to succeed him. "There is never a perfect time for this type of transition, but now is the right time,"
GRAND RAPIDS ? A thousand or more computer hackers and the corporate and government cyber professionals who battle them will call an uneasy truce on Sept. 12-13 when they all attend GRRCon, Midwest Information Security & Hacker CON at DeVos Place. It?s the third year of the event produced by West Michigan security professionals Chris
ANN ARBOR ? MichBio, the state's biotech trade association, is the latest technology group in Michigan to partner with MITechNews.Com and the Internet Advisor on WJR 760 AM in the co-branded Weekly Tech Update eNewsletter. The co-branding deal covers promoting the 2013 MichBio Expo & Conference Oct. 15-16 at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Kalamazoo.
LANSING ? The Pure Michigan advertising campaign has won two Mercury Awards for best tourism television and radio advertising campaign. The awards were presented Tuesday by the U.S. Travel Association and the National Council of State Tourism Directors. The Pure Michigan brand was created by the Birmingham office of McCann Erickson. ?We are expanding the
DETROIT ? Activate Michigan, a entrepreneurial mentoring program offering by The Inforum Center For Leadership, is now taking applications until Aug. 31 for an expanded class in Grand Rapids and Detroit. Activate is for women who have an idea or technology they want to commercialize, or who already have an early start-up, or who want
LANSING - If a Michigan ballot proposal is what it will take politically to advance a measure for new transportation funding, the chances of doing so have grown much slimmer now that one would face voters in 2014, House Minority Leader Tim Greimel says. Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville (R-Monroe) and Senate Minority Leader Gretchen
WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency, which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens, has built a surveillance network that covers more Americans' Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed, current and former officials told the Wall Street Journal. The system has the capacity to reach roughly 75 percent of all U.S.
LANSING - Rep. Jeff Farrington, chair of the House Tax Policy Committee, said he expects a vote on the legislation supporters call main street fairness when session resumes, and legislation to clean up the personal property tax changes passed last year has been drafted. When the committee last tried to report the bills (HB 4202