DETROIT ? More than 700 professionals networked with automotive suppliers and auto OEMs, engaged in meetings, and heard from Michigan leaders on July 22 at the Detroit Three Matchmaking Summit hosted by Pure Michigan Business Connect at Cobo Hall. Governor Rick Snyder was the lunch keynote and spoke on continuing to strengthen the Michigan automotive
LANSING - The Strategic Fund approved five Michigan Business Development Program incentives on Tuesday, with expansions for automotive or solar companies coming to Albion Township, Watertown Township, Troy, Benzonia and China townships, and Saginaw Township. Suniva, Incorporated, which manufactures high-efficiency solar cells and high-power solar modules, will create a new manufacturing facility in Saginaw Township,
SAGINAW TOWNSHIP - Suniva, Inc., a metro-Atlanta based manufacturer of high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells and modules, announced it is opening a second U.S. manufacturing facility in Saginaw Township. Construction will begin in August, with production in the last three months of 2014. Some 350 jobs will be created. The new facility will provide up
WASHINGTON DC - The National Security Agency is looking to grow its ranks with highly-trained college students. The government agency announced Tuesday that it has chosen five new schools to host its specialized Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program. None are in Michigan. Those handpicked schools include New York University, Towson University, United
ANN ARBOR - Arbor Networks reported that the number of distributed denial-of-service events topping 20Gbps in the first half of the year doubled in comparison to all of 2013, making the first half of 2014 the highest number and most intense DDoS attacks on record. Arbor also reported more than 100 events at 100Gbps or
BEIJING ? Hackers have succeeded in attacking a car, the Tesla Model S, Chinese security giant Qihoo 360 Security Technology announced last week. Can highly wired vehicles made by Detroit automakers be far behind? The hackers were attempting to win $10,000 in prize money at a kick-off event during the SyScan +360 security conference, which
TROY - Nanette Poulios, Director of Information Assurance Center Associate Professor BIT Department at Walsh College, has retired, but plans to stay active in the cyber security world. Her last day at Walsh College was July 8. She worked at the college for 12 years and was instrumental in creating the IAC, where students get
EAST LANSING - Michigan State University welcomed dozens of girls from ages 12 to 18 this summer to explore Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in new ways at the Miss Media Michigan summer camp. The all-girls tech camp is an immersive program that features game design, interactivity, computing, web development, 3D modeling, electronics, mobile app
LANSING ? Michigan has been rated the Most Improved State for 2014 in an annual Top 10 Pro-Business States report. Overall, Michigan ranked no. 3 among the nation?s top 10 most populous states and no. 2 among the eight Great Lakes states, contends The American Economic Development Institute and Pollina Corporate Real Estate. The state?s
WASHINGTON DC - The Federal Communications Commission has extended Wednesday?s deadline for filing comments on its controversial Net neutrality proposal due to a last-minute wave of traffic that's crashing its site for some. "The deadline for filing submissions as part of the first round of public comments in the FCC's Open Internet proceeding arrived today,"