LANSING - After a positive January, 80 percent of Michigan retailers expect to increase sales this year, the most by mid-single digits, the Michigan Retail Index said on Wednesday. Thirty-eight percent of those polled said they expect to increase sales by more than 5 percent this year, 45 percent put sales growth at 5 percent
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
DEXTER - VI-grade GmbH, which provides software products and services for advanced applications in the field of system level simulation, announced that fiat do Brasil, the Brazilian division of Fiat Group Automobiles, installed VI-DriveSim Static, its driving simulator technology, at their premises in Belo Horizonte, Brasil. The driving simulator will be used for vehicle set
LANSING - The Michigan House Appropriations Committee took the first step in setting up a federally mandated health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday when it approved appropriating federal funds for a federal-state partnership. The committee voted 24-3 to report HB 4111 , which would accept $30.67 million in federal grant money
DETROIT - Comerica Bank's Michigan Economic Activity Index saw a bounce back in December, rising 1.7 points to a level of 102.7. The December index reading is 43 points, or 71 percent, above the index cyclical low of 59.9. The index averaged 103 for all of 2012, 12 points above the index average for full-year
RESTON, VA ? 2012 was a milestone year for the U.S. smartphone market as it finally surpassed 50 percent market penetration and now enters the ?late majority? stage of the technology adoption curve, said comScore in a report called 2013 Mobile Future In Focus. The report examines the U.S. mobile and connected device landscape in
TROY - Center for Computer Resources announced Wednesday said that it has successfully completed a secondary SOC reporting examination in regards to its security and availability. The examination, which was performed by Godfrey Hammell, Danneels & Company, P.C., a nationally recognized, independent auditing firm located in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, involves testing the design and
GRANDVILLE - Trivalent Group will host a no-cost workshop March 14 to help businesses learn how to move their desktops to the cloud. Move Your Desktop to the Cloud will be held from 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Trivalent?s Grandville headquarters, 3145 Prairie St. SW. Attendees have the option to join the workshop virtually
BAY CITY - Troop Health Initiatives has received a contract from the Office of Emergency Management of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Ann Arbor for the JEMS Technology Disaster Relief Telehealth System. The JEMS systems will be used by the VA as a disaster relief telehealth unit, connecting medical professionals and first responders in
LANSING - Macomb Chief Circuit Judge David Viviano will become Michigan's 108th Supreme Court Justice after he was named Wednesday by Governor Rick Snyder to succeed disgraced former Justice Diane Hathaway. Viviano, 41, was praised by Snyder for being a "rule of law" judge - "which is critically important" - and for playing a major