TRAVERSE CITY ? Two teenage brothers came up with an idea when they were snowboarding: ?Wouldn?t it be cool to light up your board and stand out from the crowd?? A business was born. Now the boys are trying to woo investors on an Internet crowd funding platform to help take their LED light kits
WASHINGTON ? A new report says clean energy employers announced plans involving at least 137 projects in 42 states during the first quarter of this year ? Michigan?s clean energy jobs growth was significant, with upwards of 1,200 new clean energy jobs announced in the first three months of 2012. Environmental Entrepreneurs said Dow Chemical?s
ANN ARBOR - Seven hospitals in Michigan won recognition from Thomson Reuters ranked among the nation's top 100 hospitals. In the major teaching hospital category, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor was listed along with Beaumont Hospital in Troy in the teaching hospital category. Joining Beaumont in that category was Munson Medical Center in
DETROIT ? Longtime technology public relations professional Larry Eiler was named Wednesday as Small Business Journalist of the Year for his NEW Michigan Radio show on 1290 WLBY in Ann Arbor. Eiler, co founder of Eiler Public Relations, was among a dozen award winners announced by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The awards will be
WASHINGTON D.C. - The White House expressed concerns about a controversial cybersecurity bill that would authorize Internet companies to divulge confidential customer records and communications. Opposition from the Obama administration -- which stopped short of a veto threat -- could imperil the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which is scheduled for a House of
LANSING - Questioning whether the Mackinac Center for Public Policy engaged in lobbying activities when it claimed on its tax disclosure forms it did not, U.S. Rep. Sander Levin (D-Royal Oak) has sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service asking it to review the organization and take "appropriate actions" to ensure it complies with
ANN ARBOR - In 2010, the production, sales, service and use of the automobile contributed $91.5 billion to state government tax revenues and at least $43 billion to federal government tax revenues contends a new study by the Center for Automotive Research. ?The automotive industry accounts for 13 percent of all state government tax revenues,?
WASHINGTON D.C. - Foreign spies have become much more common in America's higher education institutions over the last five years, reports Bloomberg. The FBI says many of them are Chinese nationals. The end of the Cold War did a lot to deepen international scientific collaboration, prompting universities to broaden their global activities. Students on American
NEW YORK ? With the Titanic sinking centennial Sunday April 15, there's every indication that modern science and technology in combination with a much greater awareness of seaborne hazards, make such a tragedy - at least on the scale of Titanic ? extremely unlikely today, experts say. It's not, of course, that icebergs are no
GRAND RAPIDS ? Cyber Styletto, a cyber crime novella that chronicles this life of a black hat hacker, is now available as an eBook on Amazon.Com's Kindle service. The book is co-authored by MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan. The novella is available for free for any Amazon Prime members, in Amazon?s electronic lending library. ?Cyber Styletto