DETROIT - Net income for Compuware Corporation fell to $10.5 million (5 cents per share) vs. $17 million (8 cents per share) a year earlier, a decline of 38.2 percent from the year-earlier quarter. Revenue fell 1.6 percent to $226.2 million from the year-earlier quarter. Compuware beat the mean analyst estimate of 4 cents per
LANSING - President Barack Obama continues to lead his Republican rival Mitt Romney in the latest poll of Michigan voters released by Rasmussen Reports, but his margin has slipped some. Released Tuesday, the latest poll showed Obama favored by 48 percent of those questioned compared to 42 percent favoring Romney. Another 5 percent favored another
TROY - The nomination due date for the Automation Alley 12th Annual Awards Gala has been extended by two days to 5 p.m. Thursday. New this year: Online voting. After the finalists have been announced, online voting will be open for two weeks. The Awards Gala is one of Southeast Michigan's most prestigious events honoring
DETROIT - Comerica Bank's Michigan Economic Activity Index jumped 1.9 points in May, to 103.9, 73 percent above the index cyclical low of 59.9 during the recent recession. The index has averaged 102 points in the first five months of 2012, 11 points above the index average for all of 2011. "The economic recovery of
NEW YORK - Computer-security experts took down the world's third-largest botnet, which they say was responsible for 18 percent of the world's spam. Command-and-control servers in Panama and the Netherlands pumping out up to 18 billion spam messages a day for the Grum botnet were taken down Tuesday, but the botnet's architects set up new
WASHINGTON D.C. - A U.S. policy report says Congress should preempt certain state and federal regulations in order to allow companies the freedom to share with the government information about cyber security threats and attacks without fear of breaking data breach and other laws. More information sharing is needed between companies and government agencies in
WASHINGTON D.C. - In a move to get cybersecurity legislation approved before the Senate recess, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and four colleagues introduced a modified version of their proposed cybersecurity legislation that adds privacy protections for consumers and removes government mandated security standards. Republicans had opposed the initial version of the Democrat-backed bill, introduced in
LAS VEGAS - Computer geeks attending the world's largest annual hacking party in Las Vegas this week will have a rare chance to rub shoulders with the head of the U.S. National Security Agency. General Keith Alexander, director of the spy agency, will speak at the Defcon conference, marking the highest-level visit to date by
DETROIT - Armed with growing revenues and strong balance sheets, and to keep up with increasing vehicle demand, U.S. auto executives expect to boost domestic headcount and expand facilities in the coming year, according to a recent survey by KPMG LLP. Despite their overall bullishness, executives cite some significant challenges ahead, including persistent pricing pressures,
NEW YORK ? A new survey shows 68 percent of respondents with a cell contract struggle to afford their monthly bill, primarily due to rising costs in phone plans and extra fees. Another 34 percent of respondents said they were struggling to afford their monthly cell bill due to other financial commitments and bills that