DETROIT ? Challenge Detroit has extended the deadline to apply for its one-year entrepreneur internship until March 25 to give college students on spring break time to apply. So far, Challenge Detroit has received 700 applications from Michigan and several other states, as well as some foreign countries, said executive director Deirdre Greene. The original
GRAND RAPIDS ? Four Western Michigan residents are the richest people in the state, according to Forbes magazine, amassing some $12.5 billion on total wealth during 2011. Amway Co-Founder Richard DeVos, 86, is Michigan?s richest man, at $5 billion in net worth (No. 205), Hank and Doug Meijer are worth $4.9 billion (No. 216) and
ROYAL OAK - Boocoo.com, the online auction Web site launched by Royal Oak-based Ranger Data Technologies and approximately 300 newspaper and television partners in June 2010, now has more than one million items for sale, a major milestone for the company. The inventory includes everything from designer handbags to antique postcards, from electronics to clothing
FARMINGTON HILLS - Beringea said it has invested $4 million in Cross Solar, a United Kingdom-based residential rooftop solar photovoltaics developer managed by Isis Solar. Isis Solar is experienced in residential and commercial PV, with a proven model resulting in exceptional uptime and efficiency. The company is one of the UK?s largest residential solar developers
SOUTHFIELD - Verizon Wireless said Thursday it is closing a call center in Southfield, costing 750 jobs in Michigan, because it doesn't have the capacity to expand at that location. But the company also announced it is closing call centers in Bellevue, Wash., costing 850 jobs, and Houston, Texas, costing another 1,000 jobs. Verizon?s Southfield
JACKSON - Commerce Guys, developers of the Drupal Commerce e-commerce system, Tuesday announced $5 million in venture funding. Commerce Guys is based in Paris, France, with its North American headquarters in Jackson. The round represents Series A funding for the company and was led by the Paris-based investment firm Alven Capital, an independent venture capital
DEARBORN - Ford Motor Co. President and CEO Alan Mulally received $58.3 million in company stock this week as part of a 2009 long-term incentive pay package, the automaker disclosed Tuesday. Mulally received 4.82 million shares of stock, but Ford withheld 1.97 million shares to pay the taxes on the stock award. After taxes, Mulally
WASHINGTON DC - Four U.S. senators sound a warning on cybersecurity, comparing our time to the days prior to September 11, 2001-the system is blinking red, and we are failing to connect the dots. Again. Editor's note: This op-ed was co-authored by Sens. John D. Rockefeller IV, (D-W.Va.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and
SAN FRANCISCO - CNET has learned that Apple's next tablet will be called the iPad HD instead of the iPad 3. A developer who's previously provided reliable information with respect to things Apple and otherwise tells us the next iPad uses the HD moniker instead of going with "iPad 3." That matches up well with
SAN FRANCISCO - According to Richard A. Clarke's book ?Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to do about It,? North Korea, one of the least connected countries in the world, has one of the most advanced cyberwar programs. So how can this be? North Korea has four known cyber warfare units