DETROIT - About.com editor Wendy Boswell joins the show to uncover the massive presence of the sinister Darknet or Deep Web as it is sometimes know where massive volumes of information are illegally traded along with guns and pornography. Author Joe Bastian talks about the launch of the third in the series of books about
JACKSON - An independent national survey has ranked Consumers Energy as the top "environmental champion" among providers of electricity and natural gas in the Midwest. The new survey results, released by Cogent Reports, a division of Market Strategies International, also rank Consumers Energy as the second-most trusted electric and natural gas provider in the Midwest,
ZEELAND - Herman Miller announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Design Within Reach, a Stamford, Connecticut-based marketer and seller of modern furniture, lighting and accessories, for $154 million in cash. The Company will acquire an ownership interest in DWR equal to approximately 84 percent, subject to adjustment for net debt, changes
TROY - Altair plans to acquire Visual Solutions, makers of VisSim, an innovative visual language for mathematical modeling, simulation, and model-based embedded system development used by scientists and engineers around the world. The transaction is expected to close by the end of July. Terms were not announced. "Product innovation is increasingly driven by embedded systems,
DETROIT - Almost everybody thinks that the systems that power our society are secure. Nonetheless, computer crime has officially surpassed the drug trade for profitability and God only knows what the world?s various nation states are up to when it comes to stealing each other?s secrets. So, ?What?s the problem?? The problem stems from the
LONDON - Apple and IBM announced a strategic partnership whereby IBM will sell iPhones and iPads to its business customers, and will develop cloud services optimized for Apple?s iOS. Apple will provide hardware support for devices through a dedicated large-enterprise AppleCare program. Apple?s need to develop the enterprise market for iPhones is imperative ? and
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - Great Lakes Angels announced Monday that one of its portfolio companies, Blaze Medical Devices, has been selected to present at AdvaMed 2014 in Chicago in October. The AdvaMed 2014 Business Development Committee reviewed 110 applications and selected 29 Emerging Growth Company Scholarships across 4 categories. ?We are honored to be selected to
WASHINGTON DC - The National Security Agency is looking to grow its ranks with highly-trained college students. The government agency announced Tuesday that it has chosen five new schools to host its specialized Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program. None are in Michigan. Those handpicked schools include New York University, Towson University, United
ANN ARBOR - Arbor Networks reported that the number of distributed denial-of-service events topping 20Gbps in the first half of the year doubled in comparison to all of 2013, making the first half of 2014 the highest number and most intense DDoS attacks on record. Arbor also reported more than 100 events at 100Gbps or
BEIJING ? Hackers have succeeded in attacking a car, the Tesla Model S, Chinese security giant Qihoo 360 Security Technology announced last week. Can highly wired vehicles made by Detroit automakers be far behind? The hackers were attempting to win $10,000 in prize money at a kick-off event during the SyScan +360 security conference, which