LANSING - The Office of Regulatory Reinvention within the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs announced Thursday it had eliminated more than 1,500 state rules and implemented more than 100 recommendations. The ORR has reviewed more than 19,000 rules and collected nearly 35,000 pages of non-rule regulatory actions. To date, it has rescinded 1,950 "unnecessary,
LANSING - A survey says 98.37 percent of Michigan residents now have access to broadband speeds of 10 megabits per seconds download and 1.5 megabits per second upload, a 2 percent increase from the 95.89 percent reported in April 2013. The report came from Connect Michigan to celebrate GIS Day ? geographic information systems used
ANN ARBOR - The Omnia Group and the AutoHarvest Foundation announced that the AutoHarvest.org public facing website is now translated into 5 languages: Chinese, English, French, German and Italian. The two organizations expanded access to millions in their native language to the AutoHarvest ecollaboration marketplace for advanced manufacturing intellectual property. Within the AutoHarvest ecosystem, innovators
MATTAWAN ? William Parfet, MPI Research Chairman and CEO, has been inducted into the Financial Executives International Hall of Fame. Parfet founded MPI Research in 1995 and, under his leadership, the company has become one of the top CROs in the world. He has also held executive positions at Richard-Allan Medical and The Upjohn Company
WATERFORD - HistoSonics and its Vortx Rx medical device which uses sound energy to treat tissue inside the body without the need for traditional surgery is the Medical Main Street INNO-VATOR of the Year. The award will be given to the Ann Arbor-based company on Thursday during INNO-VENTION 2013 ? a Medical Main Street conference,
TENAFLY, N.J. - Private cloud computing is a reality for half of large enterprises with agility being the key driver, according to Gartner Inc. In a recent research report, "Private Cloud Matures, Hybrid Cloud Is Next," the industry analyst firm said cost was an important consideration as well. Security, often cited by IT professionals as
WASHINGTON DC - Could online privacy one day be a thing of the past as we share more and more details about ourselves through social networks? Vint Cerf certainly believes that privacy will become much harder to ensure. The father of the Internet spoke Tuesday about online privacy at a US Federal Trade Commission workshop
DETROIT ? Rick Broida, The Gadget Guy, raves about Republic Wireless MotoX and rants about Windows 8.1! Plua a look ahead at the electronic buying season with the ultimate Cheapskate. AT&T talks about its totally automated, home security system called Digital Life. To listen, click on Gongwer.Com
TROY - Tim Moore, Managing Shareholder at Doeren Mayhew Houston, with wife Sandra, pledged the second largest donation from an alumnus in the history of Walsh College, establishing an Endowed Scholarship Fund. The scholarship will help deserving students earn a degree at Walsh College and will be available to all enrolled Walsh students, regardless of
ANN ARBOR - PlanReaction was awarded Best of Boot Camp at the conclusion of Ann Arbor SPARK's 23rd Entrepreneurial Boot Camp by a panel of investors and industry experts who rated Boot Camp participants' pitches. As Best of Boot Camp winner, PlanReaction received membership to the New Enterprise Forum (NEF) and a NEF coaching team