RESTON ? Consumer spending on non travel goods at U.S. Internet sites will exceed $19 billion during the November-December Holiday shopping season, a 24 percent increase from 2004, comScore Networks announced Monday. "Expectations across all channels for this holiday season have been dampened slightly by high gas prices and wavering consumer confidence," said Gian Fulgoni,
FORT WORTH, Texas ? RadioShack is expected to announce Monday that it will offer net telephone service Skype Technogies as part of its 2005 Holiday shopping promotions. The Luxembourg-based Net telephony company, founded by the people behind the Kazaa peer-to-peer service, will go direct to US consumers at more than 3,000 RadioShack location nationwide. Each
LANSING ? Former Michigan Governor William Milliken in an interview with Gongwer News Service said Michigan?s government leaders must find deliberate ways to ease the growing partisan bickering that has plagued Lansing this year and change or possibly eliminate the Single Business Tax. As it now stands, politics now stands in the way of a
DETROIT ? Another critical vulnerability, found in some versions of Apple Computer's iTunes software, could let attackers remotely seize a user's computer, even if users applied the Apple security patch released last week. eEye Digital Security said the latest flaw existed on the earlier version of iTunes 6 for Windows and was not addressed by
Over the past five years, Michigan's economy has lost 308,900 jobs and will lose another 9,600 jobs in 2006. The state's manufacturing workforce has declined by about 25 percent since 2000 and will lose another 28,600 jobs in the next two years. Six straight years of job losses in Michigan is unprecedented since World War
DETROIT ? SBC Communications - the former Southwestern Bell Company spun out in 1984 by AT&T when Ma Bell was broken up by the federal government ? is again known as AT&T. SBC closed the books Friday on its $16.9 billion acquisition of the former American Telephone & Telegraph Company and adopted its former parent
ANN ARBOR ? The good news in this year?s U.S. Economic forecast from the University of Michigan is the nation will add nearly four million new jobs through 2007, but the bad news for investors is interest rates and inflation will rise as well. In their annual forecast of the U.S. economy, economist Saul Hymans
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation has reorganized some positions within the agency that became effective this week, including scaling down the number of its vice presidents from 21 to eight. However, as the MEDC continues to work out its strategic plan through the end of the year, MEDC spokesperson Mike Shore warned the
LANSING - Federal action on tariffs, health care and pensions will help domestic manufacturers in their competition against foreign rivals, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and members of the Michigan Congressional delegation said Wednesday following an hour-long meeting in Washington D.C. Among the tangible results of the meeting was a bipartisan letter that the delegation will send
BIRMINGHAM - If you've ever dreamed of working for yourself and starting your own business, now is the time to start. Small business owners currently make an average of $112,800 per year, more than twice the average for employees - only $45,200 - and technology levels the playing field so you can compete with big