ROYAL OAK ? Attend the June 28 Check Point GAiA Technical Brief Webinar on June 28 and receive up to four tickets to the Detroit Tigers game on July 6. The webinar is presented by Sequris Group. Quantities are limited. Check Point GAiA Technical Brief will be roughly 30-40 minutes in duration, leaving 10-15 minutes
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation Thursday announced Michigan Strategic Fund approval of loans of up to $6.8 million for five growing Michigan companies through the Michigan Business Growth Fund Loan Participation Program. ?The Loan Participation Program will allow these companies to move forward and continue to grow, which in turn brings jobs and
WASHINGTON D.C. - According to several sources who spoke with the Washington Post, Flame helped "prepare the battlefield" for other cyberattacks, including Stuxnet. The Washington Post reports, citing sources, that Flame was the brainchild of the U.S. National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Israel's military. The focus of the malware was to surreptitiously
GRAND RAPIDS - Tetra Discovery Partners LLC has been awarded a five-year $10 million cooperative agreement by the National Institutes of Health to support Tetra's efforts to develop a new drug to treat mild cognitive impairment associated, which often precedes and accompanies Alzheimer's disease. Tetra?s award includes up to $1.5 million in direct funding and
BOSTON - 2012 will see the PC market refreshed by Windows 8, and the arrival of commercial ultrabooks. But will that likely translate into improved PC shipment numbers? IDC says no, forecasting worldwide PC market growth of 5 percent, but growth in mature markets to be under 2 percent. In addition to rising consumer saturation
LANSING - The agreement between Michigan and Canada setting up the framework to build the new bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, contains wording that seems to inoculate it from the ballot proposal that would mandate a statewide vote in favor of a new international border crossing, one of Lansing's top attorneys says. Attorney Richard
WINDSOR, Ontario - The deal to build a new bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, is signed and sealed, and now the question for U.S. and Canadian motorists and commercial traffic interests is whether Governor Rick Snyder and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper can deliver despite continued opposition from the owners of the nearby Ambassador
DETROIT - The 54-page "Crossing Agreement" that sets up the authority overseeing the construction of the new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, goes to great pains to emphasize that Michigan will bear no costs for the project. One example is Article X. "The Michigan Parties shall not be required to fund any International Crossing
DETROIT ? TechTown's biggest tenant, Asterand, the human tissue business, has reached agreement to be sold to Stemgent, a Massachusetts-based biotech company, for $9 million, the amount that Asterand is in debt. What is not known is if Asterand will remain at TechTown. But TechTown CEO Leslie Smith is in talks with the company about
HOLLAND ? More than two-thirds of west Michigan companies adding information technology positions need mid-level applications staff, such as analysts, programmers, and web developers, a new employment survey predicts. Many companies have multiple openings. Half the companies are looking for senior workers and a third can use junior employees. There is a slight decrease in