ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business ranked 14th nationally in a new study by U.S. News & World Report 2014 Best Business School List, down one place from the year before. Michigan State University's business school was the only other university in the state to be assigned a
BIRMINGHAM - Great Lakes Angels is opening its March 27 March Madness monthly meeting to high-net worth men and women who are not yet a member of an organized angel investment group. Those would-be angels who attend will get to hear elevator pitches from three entrepreneurs offering a new way to connect digital memories to
LANSING - Some two-thirds of National Federation of Independent Business-Michigan members do not want to see the state expand Medicaid eligibility, the group announced Thursday. Small business owners feared the plan would end up costing the state in the end, NFIB State Director Charlie Owens said. "The governor and his team deserve credit for trying
DETROIT - A solemn Governor Rick Snyder confirmed on Thursday what Detroit and state residents expected by saying he would declare a financial emergency in Michigan's largest city and name an emergency financial manager, but he also hoped that with the action a process of restoring and rebuilding Detroit would begin. Flanked by Detroit Mayor
LANSING ? Michigan Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville told reporters Tuesday he still hopes his chamber will vote on a proposal to enact a state-federal exchange on the Affordable Care Act this month. Members of Mr. Richardville's (R-Monroe) caucus are still discussing various ramifications of the proposal that would have joint management of a health
DETROIT ? Compuware Corp. has partnered with IBM to deliver IBM Business Analytics with Changepoint, Compuware's professional service automation and project portfolio management software. The new alliance is aimed at the technology services sector, which is expected to reach $1.2 trillion by 2015. As companies in this sector grow and mature, they seeking to sharpen
WASHINGTON DC - Computer security breaches are a certainty for energy companies, but the best responses to them are still unclear, warned a former intelligence director. Michael Hayden, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, told executives attending the final day of the IHS CERAWeek energy conference in Houston that
DETROIT ? Hiring plans for the greater Detroit area in the second quarter are the second weakest in the nation, according to the quarterly Employment Outlook Survey from Manpower. But in Grand Rapids the hiring outlook is considerably more robust. From April to June, 10 percent of the companies interviewed in the Detroit metropolitan stistical
SAN FRANCISCO - iOS profiles, aka mobileconfig files, are used by mobile carriers to configure key settings for e-mail, Wi-Fi, and other features. But these files could be abused by attackers to sneak past Apple's normally tight security and and hijack a mobile device, researchers at Skycure Security contend. The process would be similar to
SAN FRANCISCO - More details have been revealed about the massive cyberattack that hit several tech companies last month. Not only were Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter hit -- but other industries' computer systems were also hacked, including prominent car manufacturers, U.S. government agencies, and a candy company. According to The Security Ledger, people familiar