LANSING - The e-commerce website Swimtown Pool Supplies is offering an Educational Scholarship worth $1,000, to a student with an interest in technology or intention to study technology in college. Swimtown Pool Supplies hopes the scholarship will encourage students to develop skills in areas such as e-commerce, online marketing, and information technology. Opportunities in these
ANN ARBOR - Bank of Ann Arbor has opened an office in Saline, its seventh banking center. Longtime Saline resident, Walt Byers has been named Saline District President. Shelley Rankin, an active community supporter, has been selected as Branch Manager. Bank of Ann Arbor completely gutted and remodeled a former Bank of America building at
LANSING ? Two Ann Arbor Venture Capital firms will split $4.5 million from the Pure Michigan Venture Development Fund. Michigan eLab - a seed to early stage technology venture fund focused primarily on IT and life science/health care companies from the University of Michigan ecosystem (faculty, students, alumni, university research and research partner institutions). Resonant
WASHINGTON DC - The head of Homeland Security said last week that she believes a "cyber 9/11" could happen "imminently," according to Reuters. If such an event were to occur it could cripple the country - taking down the power grid, water infrastructure, transportation networks, and financial networks. "We shouldn't wait until there is a
SAN FRANCISCO - The United States is responsible for the highest number of botnet servers in the world, according to new data from McAfee. A map and a list of major countries posted by McAfee yesterday show the greatest concentration of botnet servers to be in the U.S., with 631. That's more than two and
LANSING - Michigan's University Research Corridor generated $15.5 billion in economic impact statewide, exceeded $2 billion in annual research expenditures and awarded more than 31,600 degrees in one year, placing it at or near the top of seven university innovation clusters in the U.S., according to a new Economic Impact Report released Wednesday. The URC
LANSING ? Michigan House Speaker Jase Bolger said Thursday that House Republicans are "appropriately skeptical" about expanding Medicaid or accepting a $31 million grant from the federal government to help set up a state-federal partnership for a health insurance exchange. Bolger (R-Marshall) spoke about politics vs. policy on the House floor, education, road funding, taxes
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation did not do enough to ensure that renaissance zones were creating jobs or that the businesses in them were complying with development agreements, a report from Auditor General Thomas McTavish said. The performance audit of the Renaissance Zone Program, for the period October 1, 2008, through September 30,
LANSING - The Michigan Strategic Fund Wednesday approved state incentives to support 14 business expansions that are expected to generate more than $1.1 billion in investments and add 4,590 jobs in Michigan. The MSF approved the following Michigan Business Development Program incentives: * Cosma International, an operating unit of auto supplier Magna International, plans to
LANSING - Rep. Wayne Schmidt said creating a surcharge on tires for all vehicles, including bikes and off- road vehicles, could be one way to help raise the approximately $1.6 billion needed to fix Michigan's roads. Schmidt (R-Traverse City) told Gongwer News Service Wednesday that bikes and ORVs have their own lanes or wider shoulders