ANN ARBOR ? Llamasoft has expanded operations in the Asia-Pacific region, establishing LLamasoft Asia as a new business venture based in Tokyo, where a team of more than a dozen industry veterans will be on staff. ?We are excited about the latest LLamasoft expansion,? said LLamasoft Executive Vice President Toby Brzoznowski. ?Our rapid global growth
TROY - Automation Alley is partnering with Plante Moran to sponsor a four-part business breakfast series titled Toast + Tech Talk. The first session, Business Basics for Growing Firms ? What You Need to Know to Succeed, will be held at Plante Moran?s Detroit office on July 29. This first session will feature a panel
GRAND RAPIDS - Openings are now available for Grand Valley State University?s fall Emerging Leader Workshop, What Leaders Do - The Leadership Development Series, and Leading High Performance Teams programs beginning in September and October 2014. Emerging Leader Workshop This one-day workshop will provide prospective leaders with deep insight into their own work styles and
STAMFORD, Conn. - After eight quarters of decline, worldwide Personal Computer shipments experienced flat growth in the second quarter of 2014, totaling 75.8 million units, a 0.1 percent increase from the same three months of 2013. ?While the worldwide PC market stopped two years of declining shipments in the second quarter, there were mixed results,
TROY - Packaging Concepts + Design announced that O2 Investment Partners, a private equity firm in Bloomfield Hills, along with PC&D?s management team have acquired the business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Midwest Mezzanine provided subordinated financing and equity and Comerica Bank provided senior financing. Packaging Concepts + Design designs and delivers highly
LANSING - The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs announced a new art tour app that can be downloaded to mobile devices and will lead art lovers through various tours of public art around the state of Michigan. ?We know there are many amazing things to discover in Michigan, and public art is one
LANSING - Passwords are becoming a thing of the past and we might want to consider an alternative. With all the account access needed from day to day, it becomes increasingly difficult to come up with unique new complex passwords that can be remembered. Instead, we could start using passphrases. Passphrases can easily exceed the
WASHINGTON DC - Use of common Web privacy tools or even mere curiosity about them could get you added to a National Security Agency watch list, according to a new report. The NSA surveillance program called X-Keyscore, first revealed last summer in documents leaked by Edward Snowden, has been found to contain selection rules that
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Smartphone locking is often seen as a necessary but sometimes annoying tool. Punching in a pincode or even using the newer fingerprint scanners can be a pain when just tooling around at home or sitting in a car. It appears Apple is looking into this issue. The US Patent and Trademark Office
WASHINGTON DC - A US federal privacy watchdog deemed that a National Security Agency program that snoops on foreign citizens on foreign soil was "valuable and effective," claiming it helps protect national security and produces useful foreign intelligence. The 191-page report, disclosed Tuesday night by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, was in sharp