LANSING - In one of the most blatant political moves in years, the Michigan Republican legislative majorities powered to passage Wednesday a bill that would end the ability of voters to choose a party's entire slate of candidates with a single selection. With final passage in the House about 10:30 p.m., SB 13 will soon
TRAVERSE ÇITY - In this interview with Rich Hanson, Academy of Model Aeronautics Regulatory Affairs Representative, agrees that some sort of registration is appropriate to reduce the number of safety incidents between drones and manned aircraft. However, the AMA’s position is that the FAA went too fast in arriving at this Interim Final Regulation (IFR) and should
DEARBORN - Ford Motor Co. announced several technology initiatives this week, including road tests of a fully autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid and an effort with the girls’ computer science organization Girls Who Code. Ford said its autonomous cars would take to the California roads next year under the leadership of its Palo Alto, Calif. Research
DETROIT - Twenty percent of surveyed Detroit-area technology executives plan to expand their IT teams in the first half of 2016, according to the just-released Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Forecast and Local Trend Report. That’s down a bit from 23 percent in the previous six months, covering July to December 2015, but up from
ANN ARBOR - Duo Security announced this week that is has opened an office in London as part of an expansion into Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Leading operations for the region will be is Henry Seddon, who has been named vice president of the EMEA region. Seddon brings a wealth of industry experience
LANSING - The size of tax credits General Motors can claim annually and in total through the remaining life of a large, Michigan Economic Growth Authority credit the state provided it in 2009 would be capped, but GM declined to reveal by how much and state officials said it is up to GM to disclose
LANSING - Five of the six bills creating an electronic filing system for courts and assigning fees were sent to Governor Rick Snyder on Tuesday. SB 531, SB 532 and SB 533 cleared the House 100-6, 97-8 and 98-8, respectively. The Senate then concurred in House changes sending the bills to Snyder. HB 5028, HB
LANSING - After the Michigan House spent more than nine hours gathering the votes to approve sales and use exemptions for collocated data centers in the state, including Nevada-based Switch, which encouraged the Legislature to implement the exemptions so they can open an east coast hub in the Grand Rapids area, the Senate immediately concurred
FERNDALE - On the Dec. 21 edition of M2 (squared) TechCast, cyber security experts Dan Lohrmann and Richard Stiennon take a look at the biggest cyber attacks of 2015 and conjecture on what cybersecurity threats might await businesses, governments and consumers in 2016. Also on the show, Max Muncey from the Detroit Auto Dealers Association talks
FERNDALE - On the December 14 M2 (Squared) TechCast, BeMYDD (Be My Designated Driver) announces its Puppy Love campaign for New Year’s Eve revelers, the Michigan Venture Capital Association’s Maureen Miller-Bronson explain how the private equity group funds entrepreneurs, and Wayne Dyksen, MSU Professor of Computer Science and Engineering talks about the MSU student engineers
