LANSING - Schools would have to modify their policy prohibiting bullying to include cyberbullying and include assurance of confidentiality for an individual who reported an act of bullying, as well as procedures to safeguard that confidentiality, under a bill passed by the Senate on Thursday. SB 74 saw some perhaps unexpected debate on the Senate
LANSING - Consumers Energy has asked the Public Service Commission for an addition $160 million a year in part to cover the costs of shuttering coal plants and purchasing natural gas plants, the utility said in a filing on the rate case. The utility said the rate increase is needed to comply both with federal
LANSING - The more conservative of the two chambers of Congress has approved legislation authorizing the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which provides funds for various conservation and cleanup projects around the Great Lakes. The program has already seen some $1.6 billion in federal funds since 2010, but U.S. Rep. Sander Levin (D-Royal Oak), a co-sponsor
SAN FRANCISCO - A new product from Dashlane could take much of the hassle out of changing your major website passwords, which could be particularly handy in the event of a security breach. Available as of today, the Dashlane Password Changer works by displaying a list of your password-protected websites, CNET.Com reported. You click on
WASHINGTON - The FBI still can't prove who was - or wasn't - behind last month's cyberattack on Sony Pictures, which led to the theft of thousands of documents and revealed confidential information about the company and its employees. "There is no attribution to North Korea at this point," said Joe Demarest, assistant director of
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Mainstream tech startups have been vital to jumpstarting new firm innovation in America. Policymakers are increasingly interested in whether this will drive similar innovation in the hard-hit manufacturing sector. Among the most visible new movements of late is the maker movement, a bottom-up force representing the latest inspiration for students to
ANN ARBOR - Stewart Thornhill, executive director of the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, looks into his crystal ball for 2015 and sees technology continuing to shake up the business world. Here are his predictions: The war for connected wearables heats up The broader trend
LANSING - The Michigan Film Office on Monday announced the approval of film and digital media incentives for the final five projects of fiscal year 2014, bringing its year-end totals to 27 projects awarded more than $63.7 million in incentives. The Film Office said the incentives would generate more than $245.4 million of projected expenditures
LANSING - A major redesign of the Department of Treasury's website to make it easier to navigate and use for individuals, businesses and tax professionals will begin with the department seeking persons who would be part of focus groups or an individual review of the current site. On its homepage, the department offers payment --
DETROIT - Small and medium-sized businesses are quickly moving to the cloud. And they?re finding that cloud-based services - software as a service, infrastructure as a service, and platform as a service provided by vendors from remote locations ?in the cloud? - offer advantages over terrestrial products. For example, with these applications, SMBs can more