GRAND RAPIDS - TechShop, a membership-based do-it-yourself workshop and fabrication center, Monday said it hopes to raise $60 million to build more franchises nationwide, including one in Grand Rapids. TechShop already has a Michigan location in Allen Park. The new fundraising by TechShop is possible because a critical part of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups
LANSING - Adults who never graduated from high school might have the opportunity under a partnership between Michigan Virtual University, ed2go and Smart Horizons Career Online Education announced Tuesday. The program would allow adults to earn a high school diploma as well as a career certificate. "Too many Michigan adults do not have a high
LANSING - Michigan has an opportunity to lead other states in development and deployment of talent, Governor Rick Snyder said Tuesday, and he hoped Michigan would be a "first mover" on talent needs and the ability to find a job that will provide an individual a career. Speaking to the Inforum Center for Leadership, a
LANSING - The other state universities have now benefited from the funds Wayne State University officials forfeited in June when they approved an 8.9 percent tuition increase. The WSU Board of Governors had acknowledged when it approved the increase that $534,700 in performance funding would be lost. Because WSU was the only school to break
LANSING - While private sector employment has shown some rebound since the end of the Great Recession, employment by Michigan local governments continues to fall, a report from the Citizens Research Council said. K-12 education has been especially hard hit with overall employment down by job losses. Total employment in the sector is down by
AUBURN HILLS - Chrysler Group has filed plans for an initial public offering as the U.S. auto maker takes its first step to return to the market, a move that has angered Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne. Fiat owns majority interest in Chrysler and wants to acquire the 41.5 percent owned by the United Auto Workers
WATERLOO, Canada - BlackBerry announced Monday it reached a preliminary deal with one of its biggest shareholders to try to take the company private for about $4.7 billion, which could let the struggling mobile device maker find a suitor. Fairfax Financial Holdings, a Canadian insurance firm, signed a letter of intent with the BlackBerry board
SAN FRANCISCO - Security company Intego has found a new malware package for OS X, called OSX/Leverage.A, which appears to be yet another targeted command-and-control Trojan horse, this time with apparent associations with the Syrian Electronic Army; however, Apple has blocked its ability to run with an XProtect update only days after its discovery. The
LANSING ? The Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council said a draft report released last week by the state showed that Michigan could boost its Renewable Portfolio Standard without sacrificing electric reliability. Current law calls for all electric utilities in the state must generate 10 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2015. Mi-EIBC praised
BRUSSELS, Belgium ? The European Union Commissioner for Justice said Europe needs new cross-national data protection laws to countermand the ongoing backlash against business following the NSA PRISM spying scandal that rocked the world earlier this year. Vivian Reding claimed the region's economy will suffer unless new uniform data protection laws are created. "Trust has