EAST LANSING - Oregon, Louisiana and North Carolina have the lowest tax burdens of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, while Alaska, North Dakota and West Virginia the highest, so says Anderson Economic Group's 2015 Business Tax Burden Rankings. Michigan improved from 28th in the survey a year ago to 23rd today. This
MARSHALL - Universite Laval from Quebec, Canada, achieved 2,098 miles per gallon with its student-designed and built vehicle that met the strict SAE Supermileage competition criteria of a single occupant, and a one-cylinder, four-cycle engine. Two other college teams achieved more than 1,000 mpg in the 36th annual competition, held last week at the Eaton
PLYMOUTH - Comcast Business has announced it will provide 1 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) Ethernet connections to Michigan International Speedway, and four other tracks hosting NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR XFINITY Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series events - enough bandwidth to easily transfer large videos and graphics, reviewing replays, or sending inspection data. In
LIVONIA - A new survey shows employers are paying a 3 percent merit raise in 2015, the same as the year before - the findings may indicate the need for employers to think more broadly and proactively to properly lure and reward top talent. The survey comes from the American Society of Employers in its
ANN ARBOR - Gas mileage of new vehicles sold in the U.S. was up last month - its highest mark since last August, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. Average fuel economy (window-sticker values) of cars, light trucks, vans and SUVs purchased in May was 25.5 mpg, up from 25.2
NASHUA, N.H. - Open source devotees aren't quite as addicted to Apple as other people online, but they still use Apple overwhelmingly over other products and systems, a new survey contends. Web application developer Eldarion conducted an online survey of people who use and contribute to open source, people who use open source but don't
NOVI - Magellan announced its new Off Road Vehicle Navigation platform available to automotive OEMs and power sport vehicle OEMs at the TU-Automotive Detroit trade show at the Novi Expo Center. Designed specifically for the off-roading enthusiast, the Magellan ORV Navigation platform allows off-road enthusiasts to plan, track and save trail rides and dirt
ANN ARBOR - ArborBike, Ann Arbor's bike share program, will celebrate its full system launch June 5 with 14 stations and 125 bicycles throughout the downtown and university campus areas. The ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place in the quad located at South University and East University at 11:30 am. Like other bike share programs,
SHANGHAI - Automakers head to Shanghai for the inaugural CES Asia, as Chevrolet rolls out CarPlay and Android Auto to 14 of its models in 2016. Apple and Google can breathe a sigh of relief, as GM confirmed last week that Apple CarPlay and Android Auto will come as standard across the majority of 2016
EAST LANSING - A $400,000 cash gift will honor one of the world's foremost authorities on pattern recognition, computer vision, and biometric recognition with the creation of an endowed fund in his name at Michigan State University. The Anil K. Jain Endowed Graduate Fellowship is an anonymous gift from an international businessman who was