LANSING - As congressional negotiators drew closer to reaching an agreement on financial assistance for the ailing domestic auto manufacturers, a report was issued that argued the cost of a bailout for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler will be less than the cost of enduring bankruptcy by any or all of the manufacturers - one-fourth
BURLINGAME, Ca. - Rising unemployment and reports of a worsening economy have forced consumers to pinch pennies in recent months. Still, many opened their wallets a little the week after Thanksgiving and spent 9 percent more on online purchases than they did in the same period a year ago, comScore said Monday. Electronics got a
LANSING -Department of Treasury officials on Monday announced they would move $150 million of the state's common cash into commercial banks and credit unions, available for lending, by purchasing certificates of deposit through state banks. The program, called the Michigan CD Stimulus Program, began Monday and will run through February 6, 2009. Under the program
ORLANDO - Did your brother-in-law really send you a singing holiday card? Did a long-lost friend from college really include you on this year's list? Security vendor AVG warned on Tuesday that online criminals are taking advantage of the fact most people don't know the difference between a legitimate e-card and one hosting malware. Last
LOS ANGELES - Former Detroit 3 auto executive Lee Iacocca took Congress to task in a letter issued Tuesday that said replacing the current CEOs at General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Chrysler would hurt, not help, the chances of avoiding bankruptcy for US-based automakers. Iacocca, is the former Chairman and CEO of Chrysler and
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - On Tuesday, Mozilla released Firefox 3.1 beta 2 and Google released Chrome 0.4.154.33, so it's time for the latest installment of JavaScript performance testing. Here's the highlight from CNET News.Com: Though Firefox remains the leader on the SunSpider test, with a score of 2,110, Chrome edged very close with 2,140. A
CUPERTINO - Problems with Apple's newly redesigned MacBooks have been reported on Apple discussion boards and across the Internet, CNET News.Com reported Tuesday. The new notebooks, which have already run into problems with the trackpad, are said to have problems with video performance, third-party memory chips, and staying in sleep mode. It's always difficult to
REDMOND, Wa. - On Monday, Microsoft launched Oxite, an open-source blogging platform. However, the software maker was quick to underline that the product is aimed at developers and not intended to directly compete with popular blogging software such as WordPress or Movable Type. Microsoft posted the Oxite code on its CodePlex Web site on Friday
PARIS - As part of the Le Web conference in Paris, News Corp.'s MySpace announced that it has taken a deeper plunge into the data portability pool. The social network has announced its support for Google Friend Connect, which launched in full last week, and is using the standard to help power a new set
DETROIT - The 2008 Election and the Future of Labor and Employment Law: What will President Obama and the new Congress do is the focus of a Butzel Long complimentary program on Dec. 18. The Obama victory and a filibuster-proof, or effectively filibuster-proof, Senate could mean the most change in federal labor and employment law