LANSING - Almost two months ago in his State of the State address, Governor Rick Snyder called for campaign finance reforms, but none have made it to his desk so far. Specifically, Snyder said he wanted to have better and more frequent disclosure of campaign contributions. Legislators do not have disclose fundraising or spending activity
SAN FRANCISCO - Jennifer Emick, who picketed Scientology with Anonymous, says it took her four hours to put a real name to the well-known hacker handle. The trail to the New York apartment where a hacker named "Sabu" of LulzSec and Anonymous fame was arrested last June can be traced back to a former Anonymous
LANSING ? More than 600 tourism representatives, economic development professionals and meeting planners from across Michigan will come together in Grand Rapids March 25-27 for the Pure Michigan Governor?s Conference on Tourism 2012. The theme of this year?s conference is ?Delivering on the Pure Michigan Promise.? The conference will feature keynote presentations by Governor Rick
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems announced an independent auditing firm has confirmed its compliance with SSAE 16, an auditing standard that replaces SAS 70. Plex Systems has received a SOC 1 report and the SOC 2 report is in progress. Presented by the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
SAN FRANCISCO - An online hacker group associated with Anonymous responded to the arrest of six suspected hackers by hacking and defacing Panda Security?s web site. Members of AntiSec hacked the Web site of antivirus company Panda after it was revealed that five men in the U.K., Ireland, New York, and Chicago had been charged
GRANDVILLE - Trivalent Group ranked 54 on Nine Lives Media Inc.'s fifth annual MSPmentor 100 Global Edition, a distinguished list and research report identifying the world?s top 100 managed service providers. This year?s MSPmentor 100 report has been expanded to include MSPs from North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, New Zeeland and Australia.
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced Wednesday the selection of Juniper Networks as Ethernet routing and switching hardware vendor for Merit's REACH-3MC broadband stimulus project. Juniper will supply routing and switching equipment for both funding rounds. Terms were not announced. "Merit Network is pleased to announce the selection of Juniper Networks as Ethernet routing and
JACKSON - Commerce Guys, developers of the Drupal Commerce e-commerce system, Tuesday announced $5 million in venture funding. Commerce Guys is based in Paris, France, with its North American headquarters in Jackson. The round represents Series A funding for the company and was led by the Paris-based investment firm Alven Capital, an independent venture capital
DEARBORN - Ford Motor Co. President and CEO Alan Mulally received $58.3 million in company stock this week as part of a 2009 long-term incentive pay package, the automaker disclosed Tuesday. Mulally received 4.82 million shares of stock, but Ford withheld 1.97 million shares to pay the taxes on the stock award. After taxes, Mulally
SAN FRANCISCO - CNET has learned that Apple's next tablet will be called the iPad HD instead of the iPad 3. A developer who's previously provided reliable information with respect to things Apple and otherwise tells us the next iPad uses the HD moniker instead of going with "iPad 3." That matches up well with