CUPERTINO - Apple has asked assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry company to begin shipping both a new high-end and low-end iPhone in early September, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. The shipping plans suggest that two new iPhone models could be launched as soon as next month, pointing to a strategy
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced this week the $4 million Downtown Infrastructure Grant Program aimed at helping low and moderate income Michigan non-entitlement communities to improve their downtown infrastructure quality and reduce redevelopment costs for future projects. ?Improving our downtowns will ensure the continued vitality of communities and strengthen our ability to
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation Thursday announced Michigan Strategic Fund approval of $200,000 in grants for 10 farmers markets around the state. "Farmers markets improve our downtowns and bring vitality and a sense of place to our communities,"� said MEDC President and CEO Michael A. Finney. "These grants will support local markets, strengthen
LANSING - A new service launched Wednesday by the Small Business Association of Michigan will help small employers comply with important Health Insurance Exchange notification requirements. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires that by Oct. 1 every employer provides all of their part-time and full-time employees with a notice regarding the Health Insurance Exchange. To
EGJAM, UK ? Smartphones sales worldwide in the second quarter leaped 46.5 percent, while mobile phone sales only increased 3.6 percent, according to think tank Gartner. At the same time, sales of feature phones declined 21 percent year-over-year. ?Smartphones accounted for 51.8 percent of mobile phone sales in the second quarter of 2013, resulting in
LANSING ? A Chicago logistics and transportation company has been given a $1 million incentive from the state to establish a new location in Ann Arbor, a project that the state says will generate about $1.2 million in new private investment and up to 125 new jobs. Coyote Logistics provides shippers with full-scale, third party
LANSING - The Public Service Commission on Tuesday approved three settlements involving DTE Gas Company, Alpena Power Company and Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation and SEMCO Energy Gas Company, respectively. In the case of DTE Gas Company, the settlement authorizes a $927,000 refund, including interest, to its natural gas customers, the PSC said. Customers are due
LANSING - Michigan schools need to provide incentives for students to take computer science courses, representatives from Microsoft said separately to a joint House Appropriations Education and School Aid Subcommittee and the Senate Appropriations K-12, School Aid and Education Subcommittee on Tuesday. Allyson Knox, academic program manager at Microsoft, said currently Microsoft has 6,000 job
ANN ARBOR - BBC Entrepreneurial Training & Consulting was awarded a $95,000 U.S. Small Business Administration grant to provide support to growing Michigan technology companies. The amount was matched by the Michigan Economic Development Corp. to help BBC continue its FASTconnect Program. FASTConnect is aimed at stimulating economic development among small, high-technology businesses through federally-funded
SOUTHFIELD - The Engineering Society of Detroit has become the latest technology group in Michigan to partner with the new co-branded eNewsletter published by MITechNews.Com and WJR 760 AM's Internet Advisor. The engineering group will post ads in the Weekly Tech News Update while MITechNews.Com and WJR?s Internet Advisor will do the same in EDS?s