DETROIT ? Wayne State University Labor Studies Center, under pressure from the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, took down a web site Monday advocating the approval of a ballet proposal to increase the minimum wage. The action came after the Michigan Chamber of Commerce filed a complaint Friday alleging a campaign financing law violation because public
LANSING - Tuesday is tax cut day, Michigan legislative Republicans are saying, as both the House and Senate are scheduled to vote on the Single Business Tax proposal they unveiled to help manufacturing in the state. The Senate part of the plan that would boost personal property tax credits in the tax is already on
LANSING ? Robert Kleine, a former Michigan Department of Treasury official and co-author of the Single Business Tax, said in order for Michigan's current business tax system to function, lawmakers must go back to the original wording of the SBT. Kleine made those remarks during a taping of Michigan Public Television's "Off the Record" show
ANN ARBOR ? Fifty one teams are now registered for the fall session of the Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest business plan writing contest. Thirty one registrations came in right at the deadline, Nov. 29. ?We?ve had an increased flow of entrepreneurs registering for the competition in recent weeks and want to ensure that teams have
REDMOND, WA. - The pesky Sober worm is to blame for disrupting e-mail traffic between Comcast account holders and users of Microsoft-based e-mail, the company said on Friday. A variant of Sober known as Win32/Sober.Z@mm is pummeling servers at Hotmail and MSN with "unusually high mail load," causing delays in e-mail delivery to Hotmail and
GRAND RAPIDS - U.S. technology shares rose on Friday, sending the NASDAQ Composite index to its seventh straight week of gains as investors bought semiconductor stocks, amid signs of continued growth in the economy. A government report showed robust U.S. job growth in November, slightly above market expectations, but the report also revived concerns that
GRAND RAPIDS - The number of worms that targeted instant-messaging services hit 62 in November, up 226 percent from October a record, Akonix Systems said Tuesday. Of the worms, 58 were variants of previous pests, and four were new. In the same month, a total of 14 attacks hit peer-to-peer networks, such as Kazaa and
LANSING ? Gov. Jennifer Granholm should have no problem signing the latest package of Single Business Tax changes, Michigan's Republican legislative leaders said Tuesday, since the proposal consists only of elements already agreed to by the administration. But more proposals are coming. House Speaker Craig DeRoche (R-Novi) and Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema (R-Wyoming) said
STAMFORD, CT. - Demand for IT specialists could shrink as much as 40 percent within the next five years as businesses increasingly look to employ "IT versatilists," employees who not only specialize in IT but who demonstrate business smarts by handling multidisciplinary assignments, a new report by Gartner contends. "The long-term value of today's IT
DETROIT ? The first employee of SpaceForm, a start up based at Wayne State University?s TechTown, was named on Monday as recipient of WSU?s First Adams Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Alain Piette is the first employee of a start-up called SpaceForm ? a spin out from Delphi Technologies, a Delphi Corporation subsidiary. The inventor of DRW, Anthony