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WASHINGTON DC - President Obama wants the United States to spend $19 billion across a broad range of initiatives, all with the aim of making it harder for hackers to steal information from individuals, companies and government agencies - a whopping 35 percent increase over the previous year's budget. That money, for example, would promote
DETROIT - DTX Launch Detroit, a 10-week technology startup accelerator for college students and recent graduates, is accepting applications for summer 2016. The application period closes on April 22. An information session will be held on February 24 from 6-8pm at TechTown Detroit, 440 Burroughs, Detroit. “DTX Launch Detroit is an intensive, real-world acceleration program,”
DETROIT – How could your business use technology to help enhance your business? If you can answer that question in a 250-word essay you could have a chance to win up to $30,000 and participate in a day of mentoring with teams of business experts courtesy of Comcast Business and its Innovations 4 Entrepreneurs competition.
GAINES TOWNSHIP - Switch Communications Group LLC has selected Lansing-based The Christman Co. to serve as the general contractor for the company’s data center project at the former Steelcase pyramid building, MiBiz reported Monday. The Las Vegas-based operator of co-located cloud-based data centers plans to invest up to $5 billion into the West Michigan facility,
EAST LANSING - A new report predicts California would be the state with the largest potential market for legalized Cannabis Products in the United States, while Wyoming would be the smallest. Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio rank among the top 10 largest potential markets. Supported Intelligence, an East Lansing-based software startup, recently partnered with Anderson Economic
HOLLAND - Grand Angels, one of nearly a dozen angel investing groups in Michigan, announced it invested more than $3.5 million in 12 companies during 2015, the private equity finance group’s most active year since it was founded in 2004. Grand Angels has deployed $19.6 million in the past 11 years. The group expects it
GRAND RAPIDS - Student, alumni and faculty volunteers from Davenport University are trained and ready to kick off free income tax preparation sessions, available to low- and middle- income tax-filers (less than $58,000 in total family income) at locations across West Michigan. Every year, millions of dollars in tax refunds and credits go unclaimed by
WASHINGTON DC - Virginia Tech professor Marc Edwards and Flint resident LeeAnne Walters told a U.S. House committee Wednesday that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality engaged in a cover-up to prevent its failure to enforce drinking water laws in Flint from coming to light, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was complicit in that
GRAND RAPIDS - Steelcase is getting into wind power in an even bigger way. On Tuesday, the office furniture maker announced a 12-year power purchase agreement with Apex Clean Energy for 25 megawatts of wind power, nearly half of Steelcase’s renewable energy purchases. Under Steelcase’s long-term PPA with Apex’s Grant Plains Wind project, a 150-megawatt
SAN FRANCISCO - By 2020, 5.4 billion people around the world will have a phone, more people than will have electricity, running water or cars on the road. This sobering prediction comes from Cisco’s annual report on mobile traffic growth. Cisco's report forecasts a tenfold growth in mobile data traffic to 366.8 exabytes by 2020. What
