ANN ARBOR - New Jersey medical devices maker Becton, Dickinson and Co. revealed Wednesday during an investor's call that it paid $205 million for Ann Arbor-area based Accuri Cytometers, making it one of the largest exits in Michigan history. It's the first time BD has publicly discussed the deal's price, which makes Accuri's acquisition one
LANSING - The Department of State Police isn't using devices that extract information from individuals' cell phones in an illegal manner, department officials told the House Oversight, Reform and Ethics Committee following a dust-up over whether the department is overreaching privacy laws and Fourth Amendment protections against unlawful search and seizure. Greg Zarotney, a State
LANSING - Gov. Rick Snyder Wednesday proposed sweeping education reforms aimed at transforming Michigan's educational system from one still rooted in the days of a mostly farm-based society to one that prepares students for the technological age of today and jobs of tomorrow. To bring greater accountability to Michigan?s educational system, the governor is implementing
GRAND RAPIDS - Merging online and in-store shopping, Meijer is introducing a program where shoppers can place an order on Meijer.com and have the merchandise shipped ? at no cost ? directly to their local Meijer store for pick-up. The online program, called "Order-to-Store," will include thousands of items found on OrderToStore.Meijer.Com including furniture and
TOKYO - A year after Apple Inc. launched the iPad, Sony Corp. told The Wall Street Journal Tuesday it plans to enter the tablet-computer segment later this year with two models running Google Inc.'s Android operating system. Sony's two tablets?code-named S1 and S2?will be released late this year. The S1 is a slate-style tablet computer
CHICAGO - Video conferencing can help businesses reduce operating costs, improve their decision making capabilities and increase their customer contact. Yet, just half of businesses use video conferencing today. In November and December 2010, distributor CDW surveyed IT and telecommunications managers to understand video conferencing adoption, examine key drivers and identify implementation challenges. The Video
TROY - The Venture Michigan Fund II Tuesday announced its first investment commitment to MK Capital II, a technology venture capital fund that focuses on emerging companies in the digital media, software and education industries. MK Capital has offices in Ann Arbor, Chicago and Los Angeles. ?We are very pleased with the quality responses we
PONTIAC - Penny auction sites may be a dime a dozen on the Internet, but Michigan-based BidDogz.Com bounded into the pack with its own breed of auction site last week. Its slogan: "Where Bidding Doesn't Bite." Founder Michael Falk, who describes himself as a seasoned marketing veteran, said he came up with the idea for
SAN FRANCISCO - Want to wipe location-tracking data that's being stored on your iPhone without your permission? There's an app for that, but you've got to jailbreak your iPhone first. Several tools have cropped up as a fix for people riled up about the fact that iPhones (and iPads) are surreptitiously logging unencrypted location-related data
NEW YORK - Apple Inc.'s iPhones and Google Inc.'s Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to Apple and Google, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journal?intensifying concerns over privacy and the widening trade in personal data. Google and Apple are gathering location information as part of their race to