MUSKEGON - Edgewood Elementary students in Muskegon Heights will find a post-holiday surprise arriving at their door soon when donated school supplies from Media 1 and other local business are delivered later this month. Several boxes of Scholastic books, notebooks, binder, copy paper, pencils, pens, glue and various other classroom supplies will be donated to
GRAND RAPIDS ? As I was typing out the issue number on this eNewsletter, it hit me ? Vol. 10, No. 1. Means MITechNews.Com ? the first web portal site in Michigan to offer news about Michigan technology and entrepreneurs ? is celebrating its 10th birthday. It?s hard to believe when I left the Detroit
WASHINGTON DC ? The U.S. Labor Department reported Friday that nonfarm payrolls rose by 200,000 last month. The unemployment rate, obtained by a separate survey of U.S. households, sank to 8.5 percent in December, its lowest level since February 2009. November's rate was revised up to 8.7 percent. The Labor Department said private companies added
ATLANTA - A Poll Position national scientific telephone survey found that the majority of Americans (50 percent) said people who are caught texting while driving should lose their driver's license for a period of time. The survey also showed 38 percent said you should not lose your license for a period of time and 12
GRAND RAPIDS - MiBiz announced Wednesday that veteran business journalist Mark Sanchez has begun working for the region's largest business publication as a Senior Writer. Sanchez will cover the West Michigan health care, finance and small business beats for MiBiz and its affiliated print and online publications. For the last 25 years, Sanchez has been
LANSING - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was the favorite to win the Michigan Republican presidential primary next month before last night's Iowa caucuses, and his eight-vote victory there over former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum appeared to do little to change that dynamic. There are still seven states that will hold primaries and caucuses between
WATERFORD - Single, childless women in their 20s are more likely than their male counterparts to graduate from college, reports Inforum in a study called "Women & the Workplace," a new installment of an ongoing research partnership to examine trends affecting women in the second decade of the 21st century. Maxine Lauer, CEO for Sphere
GRANDVILLE ? Cloud computing, agile methodology, tablet computers, mobile applications, and IT security are among the top technology trends for 2012, says Dawn Simpson, VP of Market Development for Trivalent, an IT services and data management company. Trivalent compiled its top ten technology trends list from a variety of sources including Forrester Research, Gartner, JP
GRAND RAPIDS ? I'd like to wish all the readers of MITechNews.Com, Advertisers and Content Partners a Happy Holiday season. Certainly, with all the changes in the offing, our growing audience will be able to get their news in many ways ? including video - making 2012 a prosperous New Year as well. Starting in
WASHINGTON DC - A group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of America's top business-lobbying group and gained access to everything stored on its systems, including information about its three million members, several people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. The break-in at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is one