DETROIT - A coalition of unions will undertake a petition drive to place a proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot protecting the right to collectively bargain and banning the state from enacting a right-to-work law. The Detroit News reported Thursday evening that UAW President Bob King, addressing members in Washington, informed them that a
ANN ARBOR - Duo Security has been promised $5 million in venture capital financing, including cash from the investment vehicle of Google. Google Ventures, Silicon Valley-based True Ventures and Ann Arbor-based Resonant Venture Partners invested in Duo, officials announced this week. True Ventures and Resonant were previous backers of Duo, which raised $1 million in
LONDON - Global police agency says sweep in Europe and South America was in response to cyberattacks on government Web sites in Colombia and Chile. Twenty-five suspected members of the online activist group Anonymous have been arrested in sweeps across Europe and South America, the international police agency Interpol told CNET News.Com. The sweep, dubbed
ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan students' school email will look a lot like their personal Gmail accounts next week. The school finalized an agreement with Google in October to transfer its email, calendar systems and other collaborative tools to the Google platform. The switch to Google - dubbed the NextGen Collaboration Project - is
BARCELONA, Span - Tech will be in the driver's seat, steering the auto industry into a future with coordinated networks of self-driving cars. Without it, expect "global gridlock" to paralyze cities, Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford predicted at the Mobile World Congress mobile-technology show. Ford predicts a future, though, in which computing and
ANN ARBOR ? The University of Michigan is leading a $2.4 million statewide program aimed at turning inventions in the classroom into marketable products by increasing the supply of seasoned entrepreneurs. The Tech Transfer Talent Network, funded through a grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, includes seven universities and regions with strong research-based technology
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Michigan and other states to require the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to take several immediate steps to prevent the introduction of Asian carp into the Great Lakes. Attorney General Bill Schuette and his colleagues in other states had asked the court to
DETROIT - A significant shift in support occurred after Wednesday's debate between the Republican presidential candidates in Michigan to the benefit of Mitt Romney, according to a new poll out Friday. Romney now has 39 percent to 31 percent for Rick Santorum, according to the survey from the Foster McCollum White and Associates and Baydoun
DETROIT - Challenge Detroit said Thursday that Credit Acceptance Corp. chairman and founder, Donald A. Foss, has personally pledged $500,000 to the initiative focused on revitalizing Detroit by attracting young entrepreneurs to the city. ?Challenge Detroit is dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship and has a passion for revitalizing Detroit through this program. This initiative is very
ADA - Worldwide sales of Amway products jumped 17 percent to a record $10.9 billion, corporate parent Alticor reported Thursday, the sixth consecutive year of growth for the company. The 17 percent increase over 2010 sales of $9.2 billion was driven by broad global growth in sales from Russia to Thailand. The privately held company