SAN FRANCISCO - In a digital heist reminiscent of a John le Carre novel, more than $9 million worth of greenhouse-gas emissions permits were stolen from the Czech Republic electricity and carbon trading registry earlier this month and transferred to accounts in other countries, at the same time as the Prague-based registry office was evacuated
TRAVERSE CITY - Appia Communications has landed on Nine Lives Media's fourth-annual MSPmentor 100, a research report identifying the world's top 100 managed service providers. This year's MSPmentor 100 report includes MSPs from North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australia. "We are again honored to appear on the MSP100," said Victor von Schlegell,
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - PayPal was hit by an outage early Friday morning that prevented customers from using the online payment service for more than an hour. The outage started at 12:11 am PT, according to PayPal's Developer Network. PayPal said it was resolved by 1:23 a.m. PT, though the company acknowledged that access to
LANSING - Gov. Snyder proposed major changes Thursday to the Michigan?s tax system, which includes the promised elimination of the Michigan Business Tax, to be replaced with a flat Corporate Income Tax set at 6 percent. The plan includes the scheduled reduction in the individual income tax rate from 4.35 percent to 4.25 percent. Because
DETROIT - The College of Engineering at Wayne State University will be the first in the country to offer graduate and undergraduate certificate programs in advanced energy storage systems as the state's automotive industry transitions into producing more electric drive vehicles. The new certificate programs draw from Wayne State's curriculum and research in electric drive
OTTAWA, Canada - A cyberattack against Canada that tried to access classified government information and forced two key departments to go offline has been traced back to China, according to a story today from CBC News. Sources told the CBC that the attacks were initially discovered in early January but that it's unknown whether the
GRAND RAPIDS - The Michigan Strategic Fund Board has approved an additional $1.4 million to be allocated to the Michigan Emerging Technologies Fund, managed by the Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center in partnership with the Michigan Economic Development Corp. The ETF provides commercialization funding to match federal Small Business Innovation Research and Small
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Growth Authority Tuesday approved tax incentives for 15 companies choosing to expand or locate in Michigan, as well as two brownfield redevelopment projects. The companies estimate the projects will generate up to $205.2 million in new private investment, adding or retaining a projected 4,022 jobs. ?The reinvention of Michigan starts
ANN ARBOR - NSF International said Tuesday that it has acquired Pharmalytica Services, a pharmaceutical contract laboratory based in Bristol, Conn. Financial terms were not announced. Pharmalytica provides a full range of official ?good laboratory practices? and ?good manufacturing practices? analytical services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry from discovery support through commercialization. The company
LANSING - The first shockwaves already are emanating from Gov. Rick Snyder's expected budget proposal for the 2011-12 fiscal year with sources telling Gongwer News Service that Snyder plans a 15 percent cut in aid to public universities and a cut of about $200 million in revenue sharing to local governments. Sources also told Gongwer