WASHINGTON ? U.S. House lawmakers on Wednesday defeated an attempt to drastically curb a national-security program that collects the phone records of millions of Americans, after a tense debate on the balance between privacy rights and government efforts to find terrorists. The measure was narrowly defeated, 205-217, after last-minute lobbying by the Obama administration and
DEARBORN - Ford Motor Company reported second quarter 2013 pre-tax profits of $2.6 billion, reflecting improvement by all business units compared with a year ago. North America, the company's largest region, set records for second quarter and first half pre-tax profits. Asia Pacific Africa, the company's fastest-growing region, achieved its best-ever quarterly pre-tax profit. Ford
MUSKEGON ? The Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center is hosting a briefing on Aug. 15 to update the public on a wind turbine floating platform system, what has been described as the next generation of marine wind turbine design. Charles Nordstrom, naval architect and marine engineer with Glosten Associates, will discuss the Glosten Pelastar
MOSCOW -Security vendors are busy adding and upgrading defensive technologies into their products, but security experts say an end to the cat-and-mouse game with organized cybercriminals is nowhere in sight. Strong and often complex business networks that support the delivery of malware and other attacks designed to steal credit card data, passwords and personal information
DETROIT ? Angelique Johnson, interim CEO and CTO of MEMStim LLC, won first place and $15,000 plus in-kind support in the Entrepreneur-YOU business plan and pitch competition. Johnson?s company developed a fully automated manufacturing process for electrode lead production employing nanofabrication of thin films. MEMStim LLC intends to disrupt the neurostimulator market with a new
DETROIT - Strategic Staffing Solutions, a global IT and business services company, has opened an office in Riga, Latvia, to service its customers in the region and expand its growth in Europe. ?Our customers have asked us to expand our capabilities in Eastern Europe and Latvia is a perfect place for S3 to grow in
GRAND RAPIDS ? If you'd like to hear the 5-minute MITechNews Updates that are available each Saturday on WJR 760 AM's Internet Advisor, the updates are now available as audio podcasts on demand. The podcasts will soon become part of a co-branded Weekly eNewsletter with the Internet Advisor that will also feature links to the
LANSING ? David Behen, Michigan government's chief information officer, was told by his 21st Century Advisory Board more than a year ago that Michigan needed to develop a contest for developers to write mobile application code to spur the nascent industry in Michigan. This week the state's first Code Michigan event was announced. In October,
DETROIT - As part of the city of Detroit?s Chapter 9 bankruptcy petition filing, Governor Rick Snyder in a four-page letter outlines his reasons for allowing the city to do so, saying it is the only ?reasonable way? to address the city?s insolvency. ?I have reached the conclusion that this step is necessary after a
LANSING - A study funded by the Marketplace Fairness Coalition suggests passing legislation closing the loopholes that currently allow Internet retailers not to charge the state's 6 percent sales tax would create a larger base and create the potential for reduce tax rates. The study shows the state could increase jobs by 44,000 and gross