SAN FRANCISCO - Two US whistleblowers, Syria's president, a Mexican drug lord ? and Evgeny Kaspersky, the founder of Kaspersky Lab., one of the biggest international malware-fighting companies ? make it into the list of Wired magazine's Most Dangerous People. �Why dangerous though? What brings together Paula Broadwell whose book cost the CIA?s director David
TEL AVIV - Israel is developing a national program that trains young people for cyber warfare to boost its ability to deal with the increasing number of online attacks. According to The Jerusalem Post's report Wednesday, the program named "Magshimim Le'umit" has been in development for the past three years and targets outstanding pupils aged
ANN ARBOR - Internet-retail giant Amazon remains at the head of the class, according to the annual Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index released by customer experience analytics firm ForeSee. The eighth annual report?based on more than 24,000 customer surveys collected during the prime holiday shopping season between Thanksgiving and Christmas?expands from measuring satisfaction with 40 top
DEARBORN - Ford Motor Company is spending more than $773 million on new equipment and capacity expansions across six manufacturing facilities in southeast Michigan as it delivers on a commitment to invest $6.2 billion in U.S. plants by 2015. The investments in Michigan will create 2,350 new hourly jobs and allow the company to retain
BIRMINGHAM - Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of The Eriksen Group in Birmingham. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 2005, is a retirement consulting firm that provides ongoing and project-based retirement consulting services to their clients throughout the Central United States. Their consulting services include plan design, fiduciary governance,
ALLEGAN - Perrigo Company has completed the acquisition of Cobrek Pharmaceuticals, a privately-held, Chicago, Illinois-based drug development company, for approximately $45 million on a cash free and debt free basis. In May 2008, Perrigo acquired an 18.5 percent minority stake in Cobrek in conjunction with entering into a product development collaborative partnership agreement with the
ALBION - Caster Concepts has promoted Kurtis Myers to Territory Sales Representative for the East Coast region. Myers had previously served as CCI's purchasing and inventory manager for the past five years prior to accepting this assignment. ?Kurtis has played a key role for Caster Concepts over the past five years," stated William Dobbins, President
ANN ARBOR - Bank of Ann Arbor announced Wednesday that it has acquired Ervin Leasing Company, a privately held national equipment leasing and finance company founded in 1978 and headquartered in Ann Arbor. Ervin Leasing, a subsidiary of parent company Ervin Industries, successfully navigated the economic downturn in 2008 and 2009, then ramped up sales
LANSING - Michigan's employment, per capita GDP and per capital personal income have grown more quickly than those of most other states since 2009, but it's still far behind the top 10 states, according to the 2012 Business Leaders for Michigan Benchmarking Report. Perceptions of Michigan's business climate are low and improving slowly, the report
WASHINGTON DC - Detroit and Grand Rapids had two of the best recoveries in the country from the depths of the recession three years ago, according to a study of 100 metropolitan areas by the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Both of the Michigan metropolitan areas had top 20