LANSING - A new service launched Wednesday by the Small Business Association of Michigan will help small employers comply with important Health Insurance Exchange notification requirements. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires that by Oct. 1 every employer provides all of their part-time and full-time employees with a notice regarding the Health Insurance Exchange. To
EGJAM, UK ? Smartphones sales worldwide in the second quarter leaped 46.5 percent, while mobile phone sales only increased 3.6 percent, according to think tank Gartner. At the same time, sales of feature phones declined 21 percent year-over-year. ?Smartphones accounted for 51.8 percent of mobile phone sales in the second quarter of 2013, resulting in
LANSING ? A Chicago logistics and transportation company has been given a $1 million incentive from the state to establish a new location in Ann Arbor, a project that the state says will generate about $1.2 million in new private investment and up to 125 new jobs. Coyote Logistics provides shippers with full-scale, third party
LANSING - Michigan schools need to provide incentives for students to take computer science courses, representatives from Microsoft said separately to a joint House Appropriations Education and School Aid Subcommittee and the Senate Appropriations K-12, School Aid and Education Subcommittee on Tuesday. Allyson Knox, academic program manager at Microsoft, said currently Microsoft has 6,000 job
ANN ARBOR - BBC Entrepreneurial Training & Consulting was awarded a $95,000 U.S. Small Business Administration grant to provide support to growing Michigan technology companies. The amount was matched by the Michigan Economic Development Corp. to help BBC continue its FASTconnect Program. FASTConnect is aimed at stimulating economic development among small, high-technology businesses through federally-funded
LANSING - The Public Service Commission on Tuesday approved three settlements involving DTE Gas Company, Alpena Power Company and Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation and SEMCO Energy Gas Company, respectively. In the case of DTE Gas Company, the settlement authorizes a $927,000 refund, including interest, to its natural gas customers, the PSC said. Customers are due
SOUTHFIELD - The Engineering Society of Detroit has become the latest technology group in Michigan to partner with the new co-branded eNewsletter published by MITechNews.Com and WJR 760 AM's Internet Advisor. The engineering group will post ads in the Weekly Tech News Update while MITechNews.Com and WJR?s Internet Advisor will do the same in EDS?s
GRAND RAPIDS ? A new survey says the West Michigan industrial economy continues to grow, albeit at a slower pace, while the national economy remains modestly positive. This lukewarm economic news came from Brian G. Long, director of Supply Management Research in the Seidman College of Business at Grand Valley State University. Long said the
GRAND RAPIDS ? Grand Rapids GiveCamp is now accepting applications from West Michigan non-profit organizations to gain free technology services during a weekend-long event this November. The application deadline is October 1. Through Grand Rapids GiveCamp, non-profit organizations with specific technology needs are matched with local technology professionals who volunteer their time over the course
TRAVERSE CITY - Chrysler Group will invest $52 million in two Michigan plants and hire 298 more workers to build much more fuel ?efficient engines 2.0-liter Tigershark engine for use in vehicles like the new Dodge Dart. The Trenton North assembly plant will receive $11.5 million to add an assembly line for the four-cylinder Tigershark