WASHINGTON DC - The National Security Agency has a secret program that allows it to see just about everything a person does on the Internet, according to a new report. NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who is still holed up in a Moscow airport, has reportedly leaked to The Guardian new details on a high-powered, secret
LONDON - Computers manufactured by the world's biggest personal computer maker, Lenovo, have been banned from the ?secret? and top secret - networks of the intelligence and defense services of Australia, the US, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand, because of concerns they are vulnerable to being hacked. Multiple intelligence and defense sources in Britain and
LANSING - Internet retailing giant Amazon has established several physical presences in Michigan, and under Michigan's own definition, should be assessed sales and use tax, the Michigan Retailers Association has urged the Department of Treasury. In several letters, one issued earlier this month and one in July 2012, MRA President James Hallan said Amazon has
LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission on Monday approved five settlement agreements reconciling 2012 energy optimization costs and revenues and revising those surcharges for five separate electric and natural gas utilities. Northern States Power Company customers using 500 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month will see an increase of 27 cents on their monthly bill,
DETROIT - TiE Detroit ? Talent, Ideas, Enterprise - invites high school students to enroll in a life changing unique program TiE Young Entrepreneurs. Seats are limited. Application deadline is Aug. 15. TYE will accomplish this objective by offering training and mentoring program to selected high school students who learn about the challenges and rewards
LANSING - A proposal unveiled late Wednesday to help control Asian carp from getting in the Great Lakes is not strong enough because it does not call for isolating the lakes from the Mississippi River, officials said. Attorney General Bill Schuette issued some of the strongest statements against the proposal outlined, saying it would not
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University has received an in-kind software grant with a commercial value of $40 million from Siemens PLM Software. It is one of the largest in-kind grants in the university's history. The in-kind grant gives LTU students access to the same technology that companies around the world use every day to develop
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 - Compuware Corp. surprised Wall Street and beat first quarter earnings estimates, which has been rewarded with more favorable ratings from some analysts. The computer software and services company reported this week adjusted earnings per share increased 100 percent to a penny in the first quarter of fiscal year 2014 ended June 30 compared
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