SOUTHFIELD - A team that called themselves Martians won first place in the open category of the first World Robot Olympiad USA state tournament in Michigan and advanced to the USA finals to be held at Lawrence Tech in September. The winners were Christian Daniels and Juan Carlos Feraro of Westland, who competed July 26-27
LANSING - Owners of Michigan's small and medium-size businesses have voiced their confidence in Michigan's economic future in the latest Future Business Index, but concerns remain regarding the challenges of retaining skilled employees and the unknown impact of the Affordable Care Act on the individual bottom lines of businesses. Published in partnership with Accident Fund
LANSING - Pure Michigan announced the launch of the Pure Michigan 400 Honorary Starter contest, which runs through August 6 on Pure Michigan?s Facebook page. Fans are invited to share why they want to wave the green flag to signal the start of the race at MIS on August 17. Entries may be submitted directly
DETROIT ? More than 700 professionals networked with automotive suppliers and auto OEMs, engaged in meetings, and heard from Michigan leaders on July 22 at the Detroit Three Matchmaking Summit hosted by Pure Michigan Business Connect at Cobo Hall. Governor Rick Snyder was the lunch keynote and spoke on continuing to strengthen the Michigan automotive
LANSING - The state Board of State Canvassers voted 3-1 Thursday against certifying a petition to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and bring tipped workers up to that wage in an unexpected bipartisan vote. People Protecting Michigan Jobs, which opposes the petition, made its case to the board that the petition should
LANSING - The Strategic Fund approved five Michigan Business Development Program incentives on Tuesday, with expansions for automotive or solar companies coming to Albion Township, Watertown Township, Troy, Benzonia and China townships, and Saginaw Township. Suniva, Incorporated, which manufactures high-efficiency solar cells and high-power solar modules, will create a new manufacturing facility in Saginaw Township,
SAGINAW TOWNSHIP - Suniva, Inc., a metro-Atlanta based manufacturer of high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells and modules, announced it is opening a second U.S. manufacturing facility in Saginaw Township. Construction will begin in August, with production in the last three months of 2014. Some 350 jobs will be created. The new facility will provide up
WASHINGTON DC - The National Security Agency is looking to grow its ranks with highly-trained college students. The government agency announced Tuesday that it has chosen five new schools to host its specialized Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program. None are in Michigan. Those handpicked schools include New York University, Towson University, United
ANN ARBOR - Arbor Networks reported that the number of distributed denial-of-service events topping 20Gbps in the first half of the year doubled in comparison to all of 2013, making the first half of 2014 the highest number and most intense DDoS attacks on record. Arbor also reported more than 100 events at 100Gbps or
BEIJING ? Hackers have succeeded in attacking a car, the Tesla Model S, Chinese security giant Qihoo 360 Security Technology announced last week. Can highly wired vehicles made by Detroit automakers be far behind? The hackers were attempting to win $10,000 in prize money at a kick-off event during the SyScan +360 security conference, which