DETROIT ? The wave of West Michigan technology companies opening offices in Detroit continued this week when Open Systems Technologies, an $80 million IT infrastructure company based in Grand Rapids, but with field offices in Ann Arbor, Minneapolis and London, England, opened its latest branch in the Grand Park Centre Building in downtown Detroit. OST
DETROIT ? Caroline Dobbins when she graduated last year from Albion College and took an internship with Challenge Detroit didn?t know what to expect working in downtown Detroit. She only ventured there to attend the occasional Detroit Tigers and Red Wings game, but never gave working and living in Motown any serious thought. A year
LANSING - Despite inconsistent sales trends this summer, Michigan Retailers reported the highest level of optimism since 2004 in the future outlook component of the June Michigan Retail Index, which rose to 79.3 on a 100-point scale. There doesn't seem a reason to be optimistic - MRA president and CEO James Hallan said Michigan Retailers
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SAN FRANCISCO - Cybercrimes cost the global economy up to $500 billion annually, and can potentially result in the loss of 500,000 jobs in the United States alone. These findings were highlighted in a report released Tuesday by the Center of Strategic and International Studies and commissioned by McAfee and reported by CNET News.Com. Aimed
WASHINGTON ? U.S. House lawmakers on Wednesday defeated an attempt to drastically curb a national-security program that collects the phone records of millions of Americans, after a tense debate on the balance between privacy rights and government efforts to find terrorists. The measure was narrowly defeated, 205-217, after last-minute lobbying by the Obama administration and
DEARBORN - Ford Motor Company reported second quarter 2013 pre-tax profits of $2.6 billion, reflecting improvement by all business units compared with a year ago. North America, the company's largest region, set records for second quarter and first half pre-tax profits. Asia Pacific Africa, the company's fastest-growing region, achieved its best-ever quarterly pre-tax profit. Ford
MUSKEGON ? The Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center is hosting a briefing on Aug. 15 to update the public on a wind turbine floating platform system, what has been described as the next generation of marine wind turbine design. Charles Nordstrom, naval architect and marine engineer with Glosten Associates, will discuss the Glosten Pelastar
MOSCOW -Security vendors are busy adding and upgrading defensive technologies into their products, but security experts say an end to the cat-and-mouse game with organized cybercriminals is nowhere in sight. Strong and often complex business networks that support the delivery of malware and other attacks designed to steal credit card data, passwords and personal information
DETROIT ? Angelique Johnson, interim CEO and CTO of MEMStim LLC, won first place and $15,000 plus in-kind support in the Entrepreneur-YOU business plan and pitch competition. Johnson?s company developed a fully automated manufacturing process for electrode lead production employing nanofabrication of thin films. MEMStim LLC intends to disrupt the neurostimulator market with a new