ANN ARBOR - Rubicon Genomics Monday announced that it signed agreements with seven distributors in Europe to expand the availability of its DNA library preparation products. The new distributors include Cambridge Bioscience in the UK and Ireland, Biozym Scientific GmbH in Germany and Austria, AB ANALITICA in Italy, Sopachem in the Benelux countries, Nordic Biolabs
LANSING - Increasing the state's Earned Income Tax Credit would be a sensible way to provide some tax relief to the working poor if the state is going to increasing gasoline taxes to raise money for roads, the Michigan League for Public Policy said Monday. Gilda Jacobs, president of the MLPP, urged the Legislature not
LANSING - The conference report adopted for the Michigan higher education budget includes a 5.9 percent increase for universities and removes language that would have docked Michigan State University $500,000 for its role in a course regarding so-called "prohibited instruction activity" on unions. Overall, the items of difference amount to about $85.9 million gross (about
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder and Republican legislative leaders came to agreement Thursday on a framework to finalize the 2014-15 fiscal year budget that assures a hefty General Fund commitment to roads and funding increases throughout most of the government. Besides an overall agreement, House-Senate conference committees approved budgets for 11 of the 17 departments
LANSING - A sales tax increase to finance road construction and improvements would "put a dagger in the state's economic recovery," a letter from the Michigan Retailers Association to Governor Rick Snyder and the Legislature says. The letter, dated Wednesday and signed by James Hallan, CEO of the retailers association, said increasing the sales tax
LIVONIA - Technology Solutions announced Thursday that the company received Technology Assurance Group's top award at the association?s 14th Annual Convention event held in Nashville. Technology Assurance Group (TAG), an international organization of independently owned unified communications companies in the United States and Canada, selected Technology Solutions as the winner of the ?Performance Excellence Award?
SEATTLE - Amazon has made Kindles for years; is a phone next? Though Amazon continues to deny that it's building a smartphone, all signs point to yes. That's especially true now that Amazon announced it's holding a press event on June 18 to unveil a new device. The company released a video with the invite
LANSING - The Michigan Legislature might have given Clean Corporate Citizen Program enrollees too much protection, at least one observer said in comments on the state's federal Clean Air Act implementation plan. New law guiding the program allows enrollees to avoid penalties if they can show a violation was not intentional or due to gross
LANSING - The Michigan Senate also passed a pair of bills (SB 924 and SB 925 ) to criminalize cyber revenge, or the posting of sexually explicit images on the Internet without the consent of an individual, and images given with consent in a private relationship. "In a split second a sexually explicit photo can
LANSING - The proposed emission rules announced earlier this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would be more stringent on Michigan than other Midwestern states and changes should be made to the proposal, U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, the Democratic candidate for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat, said on Wednesday. Peters made his comments two