LANSING - Michigan House Republicans were nearly evenly divided on Thursday over legislation allocating federal funding for a federal-state partnership on the federally mandated health insurance exchange under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but the legislation still passed by a comfortable margin. HB 4111 was passed by the House on a 78-31 vote,
LANSING - Bills overhauling Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan were passed Thursday by the House without language regarding abortion insurance coverage. The vote was 92-18 for both SB 61 and SB 62, which will now head to the Senate for a concurrence vote. The bills would turn Blue Cross into a nonprofit mutual company,
LANSING - A proposal to raise $1.2 billion in revenue for roads whose key pieces are raising the gasoline tax, ending the sales tax on fuel and increasing the sales tax from 6 to 7 percent has the momentum, for now, in the Legislature. Those involved in the discussions said no deal has been struck.
LANSING - The Public Service Commission on Thursday approved a settlement agreement authorizing The Detroit Edison Company to refund $9.3 million to customers, or a credit of just shy of $2 for residential customers using 500 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month. Customers should see the credit in April, the PSC said, but the commission also
GRAND RAPIDS - US Signal has enhanced its infrastructure as a service offering by adding another cloud ready data center located within its Midwest fiber footprint to let customers custom craft a secure and cost-effective backup and recovery solution. Customer data traditionally utilizes a leased private network or the public Internet when accessing cloud services.
SAN FRANCISCO ? A new study says that state-sponsored overseas hackers are stealing as much as one terabyte of data per day from governments, businesses, militaries, and academic facilities, using a network of 500 computer servers. According to a lengthy article by The Verge, Team Cymru concludes that the hackers are so sophisticated and are
SAN FRANCISCO - A new attack is targeting European governments through flaws exploited in Adobe's Reader software, according to security researchers. Kaspersky Lab and CrySys Lab today detailed a new malicious program in the wild, called "MiniDuke," that has been attacking government entities and institutions across Europe. Government entities in the Ukraine, Portugal, Romania, and
NOVI - ITC Holdings Corp. reported 2012 net income of $187.9 million, or $3.60 a share, up from $171.7 million, or $3.31 per diluted common share for the same period last year. For the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, net income reported was $48.3 million, or $0.92 per diluted common share, compared to $42.7 million
BEIJING, China - China's Ministry of National Defense said that cyberattacks against its military sites have increased over the past few years. Based on checks of IP addresses, the Defense Ministry claimed an average of 144,000 cyberattacks per month last year, and it fingered the U.S. for almost 63 percent of them. The allegations from
LANSING - The Michigan Strategic Fund on Wednesday approved $6 million for the Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization Program, as well as Michigan Business Development and Community Revitalization program incentives to eight companies expanding in the state. The expansions, funded by the 21st Century Jobs Fund to create high-tech jobs through commercialization of university research