Archive

Suniva Looking To Hire 75 Factory Workers In Saginaw By Mid January

SAGINAW TOWNSHIP ? Suniva has announced it will recruit another 75 people by mid-January to work at its factory near Saginaw, formerly a Sears Warehouse, joining about 30 people who already are building high efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells and modules. Suniva has partnered with Great Lakes Bay Michigan Works! Qualified candidates will take the

By |2014-12-10T00:00:00-05:00December 10th, 2014|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Internet Advisor Podcast: Online Shopping, Website Design Competition, North Korea Behind Sony Attack, MITechNews.Com Headlines

DETROIT ? Internet Advisor Podcast: How To Shop Instantly On Instagram, Shop Locally On Etsy, High School Winners of Michigan Council of Women in Technology website competition, North Korea?s elite Bureau 121 Hacker Unit Behind Sony Attack, MITechNews.Com headlines. To listen, Click on InternetAdvisor.net

By |2014-12-10T00:00:00-05:00December 10th, 2014|Archive, Internet Advisor|

With the Cloud, SMBs Can Compete Differently

DETROIT - Small and medium-sized businesses are quickly moving to the cloud. And they?re finding that cloud-based services - software as a service, infrastructure as a service, and platform as a service provided by vendors from remote locations ?in the cloud? - offer advantages over terrestrial products. For example, with these applications, SMBs can more

By |2014-12-09T00:00:00-05:00December 9th, 2014|Archive, Guest Columns|

Dashlane Takes Hassle Out Of Changing Website Passwords

SAN FRANCISCO - A new product from Dashlane could take much of the hassle out of changing your major website passwords, which could be particularly handy in the event of a security breach. Available as of today, the Dashlane Password Changer works by displaying a list of your password-protected websites, CNET.Com reported. You click on

By |2014-12-09T00:00:00-05:00December 9th, 2014|Archive, Cyber Defense|

FBI Still Can’t – Or Won’t – Blaim North Korea For Sony Cyber Attack

WASHINGTON - The FBI still can't prove who was - or wasn't - behind last month's cyberattack on Sony Pictures, which led to the theft of thousands of documents and revealed confidential information about the company and its employees. "There is no attribution to North Korea at this point," said Joe Demarest, assistant director of

By |2014-12-09T00:00:00-05:00December 9th, 2014|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Maker Movement Innovates Manufacturing Sector

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Mainstream tech startups have been vital to jumpstarting new firm innovation in America. Policymakers are increasingly interested in whether this will drive similar innovation in the hard-hit manufacturing sector. Among the most visible new movements of late is the maker movement, a bottom-up force representing the latest inspiration for students to

By |2014-12-09T00:00:00-05:00December 9th, 2014|Archive, Entrepreneur Corner|

Forecast 2015: Zell Lurie Institute Entrepreneurial Trends

ANN ARBOR - Stewart Thornhill, executive director of the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, looks into his crystal ball for 2015 and sees technology continuing to shake up the business world. Here are his predictions: The war for connected wearables heats up The broader trend

By |2014-12-09T00:00:00-05:00December 9th, 2014|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Michigan Film Office OKs $64 Million Worth Of Incentives In Final 5 Projects

LANSING - The Michigan Film Office on Monday announced the approval of film and digital media incentives for the final five projects of fiscal year 2014, bringing its year-end totals to 27 projects awarded more than $63.7 million in incentives. The Film Office said the incentives would generate more than $245.4 million of projected expenditures

By |2014-12-09T00:00:00-05:00December 9th, 2014|Archive, Events/Announcements|