CUPERTINO, Ca. - Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is continuing to bare his angst about the seemingly endless revelations concerning the National Security Agency's liberal use of technology. Last week, he expressed his frustrations to Latin American journalists when they chatted with him at San Francisco Airport. He compared America to Russia, CNET News.Com reported. Appearing
LANSING - The Senate is required to return on Wednesday, July 3, and while Senate officials intend that to be a pro-forma session with no voting, supporters of Medicaid expansion are targeting that day to get the Senate to act on the measure. A spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville (R-Monroe) said Senate officials
DETROIT - Wayne State University announced Thursday two research grants totaling $1.8 million in the Multidisciplinary Research Group Incubator Program, an internal funding program at the university. The seed-funding program is aimed at fostering the development of multidisciplinary research groups with significant growth potential for external funding through centers of excellence grant programs, program project
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation Friday announced Michigan Strategic Fund approval of Michigan Business Development Program $1.8 million in incentives to four companies that as a result are expected to generate nearly $14.5 million in investments and add 442 new jobs. ?Michigan?s comeback story is being documented almost daily with news of companies
TROY - Walsh College alumni see the Michigan economy as trending upward since 2011, yet continue to express caution regarding the state?s economic condition, a new survey shows. On the national front, economic sentiment has been marked by volatility since 2011, but has improved slightly over the past 6 months, according to preliminary findings of
LANSING - The chance that Michigan could expand Medicaid eligibility was in serious doubt Thursday as the Senate adjourned without voting on the issue, and Governor Rick Snyder essentially called on the state's population to nag Senate Republicans back to action. The stunning development late Thursday left Snyder as close to enraged - though he
WASHINGTON DC - The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to relax the ban on using some types of personal-electronic devices at low altitudes, allowing passengers leeway during taxiing and even takeoffs and landings, according to industry officials and draft recommendations prepared by a high-level advisory panel to the agency. For fliers, the new rules would
KALAMAZOO ? mophie, which is commercializing the next generation batteries for mobile phones, should close June with $100 million in sales so far this year and might crash through the $250 million sales threshold by year's end, a senior executive said this week. Shawn Dougherty, chief operating officer and co-founder, said the company closed 2012
JACKSON - Consumers Energy, Michigan's largest supplier of renewable energy, has signed a contract with General Electric to supply 62 more wind turbine generators for the Cross Winds Energy Park in Tuscola County in the thumb region of the state. The contract calls for GE to provide the turbine units, each with a capacity of
EAST LANSING - Michigan State University on Wednesday broke ground on a new $60.8 million Bioengineering Facility, which will serve as a hub for interdisciplinary research in MSU's colleges of Engineering, Human Medicine and Natural Science. Some $30 million came from the state and the rest from the university. The facility will cover about 130,000