DETROIT ? TheFreeLunchFriday hosts its second monthly meet-up Feb. 22 at Atomic Object's Harmonie Park office. The featured speaker is Mike McGee, co-founder of The Starter League, a beginner-focused software school in Chicago. Before The Starter League, Mike's greatest claim to fame was that his High School mascot was a pretzel. He went to Northwestern
LANSING - Michigan has cut real spending on students over the past 12 years, witnesses told the House Appropriations School Aid Subcommittee on Tuesday. When inflation is considered, total spending on Michigan's K-12 system has fallen by 18 percent in 12 years, Steven Norton of Michigan Parents for Schools told the subcommittee. Subcommittee members also
STAMFORD, Conn. - Consumers will use and interact with a multitude of connected, sensor-enabled devices driven by applications and services to create cognizant ecosystems independent of a platform or operating system, predicts a new study. Gartner said consumers' digital lives have transitioned from the PC to a personal cloud-driven world that is driving a new
LANSING ? The Michigan Film Office announced today the feature film Need for Speed has been approved for a film incentive from the state. The DreamWorks Studios' film chronicles a cross-country journey at impossible speeds and will film in part in Detroit this summer. In addition to filming in the state, two Michigan businesses ?
DETROIT ? Compuware Corp. has developed a poison pill defense against takeover by New York hedge fund, Elliott Management that would pay senior executives big bonuses if the computer software and services company changes hands and they lose their jobs as a result. In a filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commisssion, Compuware
DETROIT - Wayne State University's contract to conduct federally funded research into problem pregnancies was extended another decade through a $165.9 million deal announced Thursday. Wayne State said the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Wayne State a second 10-year contract to
LANSING - A majority of Michigan voters favors changing the way the state awards electoral votes in presidential elections from winner-take-all to by congressional district, but a majority then opposes the change when told that Mitt Romney would have won more electoral votes in Michigan under this system despite President Barack Obama carrying the state.
LANSING - The Michigan Retailers Association has come out strongly against proposals to increase the sales tax to fund road repairs, saying it would be devastating to the retail industry and the state's economic recovery. In a statement released Monday, the association said its president, James Hallan, wrote a letter to all senators, who have
LANSING - The Michigan Strategic Fund would see a new $10 million Skilled Trades Training Program designed to help advance skilled trades such as engineering, IT or other vocational education under Governor Rick Snyder's proposed 2013-14 fiscal year budget. The program also would seek to help those already in the workforce, but in need of
TROY - Lori Blaker, CEO of TTi Global, will keynote the second annual Entrepreneur-YOU women's entrepreneur conference February 13 at Walsh College's Troy campus. Entrepreneur-YOU is designed to provide highly supportive resources for any woman who has a passion for growing or starting any type of business. "At Entrepreneur-YOU, women entrepreneurs will find the guidance