DETROIT ? FilmEmerge, a TechTown tenant, has launched its Commercial Film Challenge, which helps bring small business and film makers together to create 30- and 60-second video commercials for less than $150. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Retailers aren't the only ones gearing up for the holiday season. Criminals are also out in force to scam you with malware and fraud. To highlight the increased crime during the holidays, security company McAfee told CNET News.Com about its 12 Scams of Christmas ranging from bogus electronic greeting cards that deliver
LANSING - Municipal utilities will have to notify the Michigan Public Service Commission of a shutoff resulting in death or serious injury of a customer under legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Jennifer Granholm. The legislation permits the PSC to investigate these cases and refer matters to the Department of Attorney General if needed.
LANSING - Cisco is offering a free iPhone app that will allow people to get customized alerts on new security threats and other information for safe Web browsing. The app, which will be available on Friday in the Apple iTunes store, provides information about new malware signatures, bulletins for how to mitigate against threats, ways
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J.- Becton,Dickinson and Company announced on Friday the completion of its $275 million acquisition of Ann Arbor-based HandyLab, an exit that brought a record setting $2 million return to early investor, the University of Michigan Wolverine Venture Fund. The Wolverine Venture Fund, part of the University of Michigan's Samuel Zell & Robert H.
ANN ARBOR - Although the Legislature receives outstanding short-term analysis from its House and Senate Fiscal agencies, it needs a similar nonpartisan arm with a more long-term approach, an economist said Friday. Timothy Bartik, senior economist for the Kalamazoo-based W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, said Washington state has had success with this approach and
ANN ARBOR - Amid the carnage of Michigan's shredded economy, economists at the University of Michigan found some glimmers of good news in their annual forecast issued Friday, saying the pace of job losses would slow substantially during 2010 and 2011. But the bottom line for the next two years will be a continued overall
ANN ARBOR - With the severe national recession of the past two years finally behind us, the pace of economic recovery will be slow and unemployment will remain high for quite some time, say economists at the University of Michigan in their annual forecast for the year ahead. "Based on the data currently available, the
LANSING - Studio owners, laborers and producers flooded a committee hearing Wednesday on the future of the state's film credits, telling lawmakers that Michigan's on-again, off-again love affair with providing incentives to the industry is a bad way to do business. The Senate has passed legislation scaling back the film credits, but at the start
LANSING - Businesses would potentially be able to get venture capital funding earlier in their development process and the state could see more venture capitalists under a proposal unveiled Wednesday to the Strategic Fund Board. Under the plan, $6 million of the funds that had gone through the Strategic Economic Investment and Commercialization Board for