TROY - MartinJay Digital, an online agency, said Tuesday that it had acquired the intellectual assets ? including patent rights, source code and associated domain names ? of Los Angeles, Calif.-based Social Blaze, a developer of analytics technologies and social media management applications. Financial terms of the deal, which closed June 14, were not disclosed.
TROY ? Stage 2 Innovations Fund, which made a big splash last month announcing it had $100 million to invest in Michigan second-stage companies, now says it's willing to take a look at companies that don't have patented technologies ? a requirement when the fund was launched. The company is co-founded by former Chrysler CEO
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Police are investigating a possible data breach at a NATO-related Web site. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said the "probable data breach" involved NATO's e-Bookshop, a service for releasing documents to the public that's operated by an external company. The site does not contain classified documents, NATO said in a statement Thursday,
SAN FRANCISCO - Anonymous is picking up where the apparently disbanded LulzSec left off. The hacking organization released information to the Web last night that came from the Cyberterrorism Defense Initiative's Security and Network Training Initiative and National Education Laboratory (Sentinel) program. The Sentinel program is administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and
SAN FRANCISCO - Ryan Cleary, the alleged hacker who was arrested last week and subsequently charged in the U.K. with five counts of hacking, has been released from jail. Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith granted Cleary bail today but imposed some limitations on the 19-year-old, CNET News.Com reported. According to the U.K.'s Mirror, Cleary has a 9
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday reaffirmed the principle that the First Amendment protects free speech in the digital age, rejecting a 2005 California law that severely restricted the sale of "violent" video games to minors. The statute had been blocked from taking effect by lower court rulings in suits brought by industry
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Google Android chief Andy Rubin tweeted today that "over 500,000 Android devices" are now activated each day around the world. Moreover, he said that activations are growing at a rate of 4.4 percent week-over-week. That figure becomes more significant when one considers that just last month at Google's I/O Conference, the
NEW YORK - Online social gaming company Zynga is preparing to file for an initial public offering as early as Wednesday and hopes to raise up to $2 billion, people familiar with the matter said. The maker of the popular FarmVille and CityVille games has picked Morgan Stanley to lead the offering, they said. Goldman
FREMONT - Consumers Energy has contracted to purchase the total renewable energy output produced by the $22 million Fremont Community Digester, a 3.1 megawatt expected to go online summer 2012. "This is the first time that Consumers Energy will be buying renewable energy from fuel produced by processed food waste. This innovative facility is another
AUBURN HILLS ? Plex Systems and Implementation partner Revolution Group are offering a free online webinar geared to manufacturers on Thursday, July 14 at 1 p.m. EDT. to demonstrate how manufacturers can create a collaborative work environment and facilitate communication. By integrating Salesforce Chatter features with Plex Online Cloud ERP, manufacturers improve inventory management, customer