ANN ARBOR - A team of 14 autonomous robots built by University of Michigan students has won an international competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and its Australian counterpart, officials announced in Brisbane. U-M's team of more than 20 students, mostly from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, won a $750,000 grant
ANN ARBOR - After losing nearly 850,000 jobs since 2000, the Michigan economy will gain jobs next year for the first time in more than a decade, say economists at the University of Michigan. "It is our sense that we are now approaching the turning point from negative to positive net job creation," said George
ANN ARBOR - The Great Recession may have technically ended with gross domestic product growing again, but consumer attitudes and expectations remain at such historically low levels that the current economic situation still resembles a recession, one of the nation's leading experts on consumer economic sentiment said Thursday. Unlike the 1990-91 and 2001 recessions, the
PORTAGE ? Manatron has been awarded the contracts for Iowa's Polk and Linn counties, which will use Manatron's GRM integrated property tax software and related professional services. No dollar value was announced. Through a competitive RFP process, Polk County selected Manatron. Polk, Iowa's largest county, which also includes the state?s largest city (Des Moines), serves
DEARBORN ? Mike Finney, rumored to be soon named as the next president and CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp., warmed up several hundred people attending Wednesday's Michigan Emerging event at the Ford Conference Center with his version of comedian David Letterman's Top 10 list. But Finney's list was focused on economic development objectives
ANN ARBOR - Government assistance to General Motors and Chrysler enabled orderly bankruptcy proceedings and led to the saving of more than 1.14 million jobs in 2009 alone, according to a new study from the Center for Automotive Research. The research also showed the bailout averted huge unemployment and welfare payments and as a result
SAN FRANCISCO - With a new survey finding that half of the people polled plan to shop online for the holidays, security company Webroot offers some tips and tricks for staying safe in cyberspace. Among the more than 2,660 consumers surveyed in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia by Webroot, 55 percent said they do
WASHINGTON DC - The Stuxnet worm is a "wake-up call" because of its complexity and its aim at critical infrastructure systems, a Symantec director told a U.S. congressional committee Thursday. The malware is a milestone in many ways, Dean Turner, director of Symantec Security Response's Global Intelligence Network, said in testimony before the U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON DC - A report delivered Thursday to Congress by a commission on U.S.-Chinese relations is pointing the finger at the Chinese government for continued hacking attempts and computer exploits. "Recent high-profile, China-based computer exploitations continue to suggest some level of state support, CNET News.Com reported. Indicators include the massive scale of these exploitations and
NEW YORK - Gains in General Motors Co.'s shares Thursday allayed concerns that the revitalized car company had priced the shares too high in its initial public offering a day earlier. The shares were ahead 3.6 percent at $34.19 in 4 p.m. composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange, after opening at $35, a