TROY - Applications for the third annual Entrepreneur-YOU business plan competition are now being accepted from women owned businesses or women with business ideas. Entrepreneur-YOU is a program of education and resources to assist women in starting and running a business created through the collaboration of Walsh College, Michigan Women's Foundation and Inforum Michigan. The
WASHINGTON DC - The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a measure late Thursday to disarm two of the National Security Agency's surveillance tactics. The House voted 293-123 in favor of an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act 2015 that would cut off funding for programs engineering security vulnerabilities in US-made tech products,
NORTHVILLE - Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America introduced its FLEXConnect audio-video bridging system. This next generation in-vehicle infotainment system provides flexibility for multiple displays and multiple content streams, allowing passengers to enjoy individual entertainment preferences. ?FLEXConnect is an exciting development for in-vehicle infotainment systems,? said Doug Ray, director, audio, video and communications, Mitsubishi Electric. ?Our new
ANN ARBOR ? Llamasoft will host its fourth annual customer conference, SummerCon, at the Michigan League in Ann Arbor June 25-27 with more than 550 registrants gathering to learn and network, a record attendance. John Phillips, Senior Vice President of Customer Supply Chain and Global Go-to-Market for PepsiCo, Inc. will present a keynote address on
LANSING ? More than 350 small business owners and supporters attended the Small Business Association of Michigan?s 45th annual meeting on June 19 in Lansing where Sen. Mike Kowall was recognized as its Legislator of the Year. ?Sen. Kowall has been a champion for small business during his years in both the state house and
LANSING - Michigan's expanded Medicaid eligibility plan, the Healthy Michigan plan, has gained more than 300,000 enrollees in about 11 weeks since it went live on April 1. Department of Community Health officials said the program had 301,645 enrollees on Wednesday. The state updates publicly the enrollee figures every Monday, and two days ago the
LANSING - A new state-by-state analysis shows how little the nation supports and protects working mothers and fathers when a new child arrives ? and Michigan is among the states with the worst records. The study, Expecting Better: A State-by-State Analysis of Laws That Help New Parents, is the most comprehensive analysis to date of
ANN ARBOR - SimuQuest announced the debut of its all new server-based version of UniPhi for centralized data and architecture management at the recent Mathworks Automotive Conference, providing a new level of automation in the design and development of model-based systems. "SimuQuest's UniPhi product has undergone a major transformation over the last three years due
LANSING - The Public Service Commission on Thursday approved most of Consumers Energy Company's revised renewable energy plan that includes a complete elimination of the renewable energy charge effective with the July billing month. "The elimination of the renewable energy surcharge reflects the falling cost of wind-generated energy," PSC Chair John Quackenbush said in a
ANN ARBOR ? It will cost an instate undergraduate student $13,158 in tuition ? the highest in the state - to attend the University of Michigan this fall, 1.6 percent more than a year ago after The University of Michigan's Board of Regents approved a 2014-15 budget on Thursday. The increase, university officials said, is