LANSING - While private sector employment has shown some rebound since the end of the Great Recession, employment by Michigan local governments continues to fall, a report from the Citizens Research Council said. K-12 education has been especially hard hit with overall employment down by job losses. Total employment in the sector is down by
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Apple's iPhone sales topped nine million during the first three days of sale, what Apple described as "our best iPhone launch yet." Apple didn't break out specific sales numbers for the high-end 5S versus the colorful 5C, but did say that the combined unit sales set a launch-weekend record. Apple is also
BRUSSELS, Belgium ? The European Union Commissioner for Justice said Europe needs new cross-national data protection laws to countermand the ongoing backlash against business following the NSA PRISM spying scandal that rocked the world earlier this year. Vivian Reding claimed the region's economy will suffer unless new uniform data protection laws are created. "Trust has
AUBURN HILLS - Chrysler Group has filed plans for an initial public offering as the U.S. auto maker takes its first step to return to the market, a move that has angered Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne. Fiat owns majority interest in Chrysler and wants to acquire the 41.5 percent owned by the United Auto Workers
GRAND RAPIDS - F7Studios, a podcasting production and distribution company co-founded by MITechNews.Com Publisher Mike Brennan, has thrown its hat in the Start Garden funding mix for the third time to land $5000 in seed capital. Endorse the project to help us land the dough. The money will be used to pay for the equipment
DETROIT ? Gov. Rick Snyder, the state?s biggest self-proclaimed nerd, keynoted the second annual Techonomy Detroit conference at Wayne State University where he told a packed house of 600 plus Detroit?s comeback is going on in spite of the way government was operating. Snyder?s comments came during an informal conversation with David Kirkpatrick of Techonomy
GRAND RAPIDS - GRRCon began Day 2 last week with a keynote from Georgia Weidman who presented on "Burning the Enterprise with BYOD," which expanded into the multiple threats introduced with an increase of mobile devices. In a survey from more than 50 attendees at this year?s conference, Bring Your Own Device was listed as
WASHINGTON DC ? Gov. Rick Snyder will unveil next week at the National Governor?s Conference an electronic dashboard designed to provide all governors an overview of their state?s cybersecurity environment, part of a Call To Action For Governors for Cybersecurity. Snyder, co-chair of the NGA Resource Center for State Cybersecurity, will release the dashboard Sept.
LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission Thursday commended Livingston County for becoming the fifth community in Michigan ? and the tenth in the nation ? to be certified as a ?connected? community that has developed a broadband and technology plan to expand broadband access, adoption and use. Livingston County joins Charlevoix, Antrim, St. Clair
NOVI ? Thousands of attendees and hundreds of exhibitors packed the Suburban Showcase this week for the Battery Show, which this year added the Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo. The show, which began life four years ago in California, was moved to Michigan because of the state?s strong engineering community, said Marketing Manager Blanca