LANSING - Michigan residents are slightly less confident about their personal economics than they were earlier in the year, the most recent State of the State Survey shows, though a larger number of respondents felt they were better off today than a year ago. Most also felt they would be better still in another year,
DETROIT - From January 2011 through June 2013, 44 companies that NextEnergy supported secured $115 million in funding and created or retained 383 jobs, according to a new survey. As a result, those companies also commercialized 67 products, filed 443 patents, copyrights and trademarks and invested $89 million on plant and capital expansions. ?For more
LANSING - The Michigan Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee unanimously approved legislation Thursday that would allow businesses seeking investors through crowdfunding to avoid having to register the stocks sold to those investors. No major changes were made in the S-2 substitute for HB 4996 , which would allow companies to seek up to $1
SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter is beefing up its security to make it harder for outsiders ? read especially the NSA - to uncover data, the company announced. Twitter has added forward secrecy, a security measure that uses temporary, individual keys to encrypt each Web session, instead of relying on a single master key. Championed by
SAN FRANCISCO - Computer scientists have developed malware capable of establishing communications between devices that don't have active network connections. The discovery threatens the perceived protection of the "air gap" that separates standalone devices. Using the built-in microphones and speakers found on PCs, the lab-created prototype malware uses inaudible audio signals to transmit small amounts
SAN FRANCISCO - Researchers have unearthed an online database full to the brim of stolen account information from popular services including Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, and Google. On Tuesday, the security team at Trustwave's SpiderLabs revealed in a blog post that the database contained 1.58 million stolen usernames and passwords, CNET News.Com reported. The login credentials
EAST LANSING - Michigan State University has developed its Transportation Center on Highway Pavement Preservation to develop new strategies for extending pavement life. The new center will receive $1.4 million during the first year of the program and is expected to receive similar funding levels for the next year, with funding through 2017. Karim Chatti,
DETROIT - Few of us were math majors in college. Even fewer of us ever worked as a detective. Yet the Department of Labor?s 401(k) provider and participant disclosure rules require both skills! As a quick refresher, the DOL issued regulations in 2012 requiring that most parties being paid out of 401(k) plan assets inform
SEATTLE - Amazon is testing a delivery service that uses drones to deliver packages within 30 minutes of an order getting placed. Dubbed Amazon Prime Air, the service uses 8-propeller drones about the size of a remote-controlled airplane to transport shoebox-size plastic bins from fulfillment centers to customers' homes. The service, which still requires more
ANN ARBOR - Llamasoft has released Data Guru, a desktop data productivity tool that enables business analysts and supply chain modelers to connect to all of their different data sources in a single window, apply transforms in a powerful visual interface, and publish the resulting intelligence to any application or reporting environment, including LLamasoft Supply