DETROIT ? In a filing disclosed Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Compuware and a New York investment fund have extended a standstill agreement between them to Sept. 15. New York based Elliot Management and its subsidiaries said the agreement was to have expired Monday, but the parties agreed Friday to extend it
LANSING - The revelation that Iowa-based Midwest Living magazine writes the state's Pure Michigan Travel Guide prompted Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer to question why Governor Rick Snyder's administration did not pick a Michigan-based company for the job. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reported Saturday that Des Moines, Iowa-based Midwest Living publishes the guide, which is
HOUGHTON ? The MTEC SmartZone has been awarded a $36,000 grant from the Business Accelerator Fund to assist a tenant company, Endres Machining Innovations, develop innovative tooling products for the metal-cutting industry. The BAF will help EMI launch its first product. EMI is using the BAF grant to cover the installation of and employee training
ANN ARBOR ? Supply chain design software solutions provider, LLamasoft, has released Data Services, a new product that provides reference and benchmark data to LLamasoft customers and others in the supply chain design community. By providing easy access to this data, LLamasoft Data Services provides significant reduction in model building time and validates model outputs
GRAND RAPIDS - Michigan Health Connect is the first health information exchange in the state to effectively transfer infectious disease lab reports from hospitals to the state health department, saving valuable response time during disease outbreaks. Seven McLaren Heath Care hospitals in Michigan ? McLaren Bay Region, McLaren Central Michigan, McLaren Flint, McLaren Greater Lansing,
DEARBORN - The SME Education Foundation has awarded $120,000 in Family and Director Scholarships to eight students pursuing engineering careers. In addition, the 2013 SME-EF scholarship winner?s circle includes 224 students who were awarded $521,500 in scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $7,000, with some receiving multiple awards. Family Scholarships were presented to the following students:
SAN FRANCISCO - Forget the National Security Agency and other government intelligence bureaus. One doesn't need a taxpayer-funded agency to maintain a nearly comprehensive and constant library of your visage as you travel near and far. There are, in fact, a number of products and services from both startups and tech giants aimed at capturing
SAN FRANCISCO - Signed with a valid Apple ID, Backdoor:Python/Janicab.A uses a Unicode trick to pass as a standard document instead of an application. F-Secure is reporting that some new malware attempts in OS X are using a spoofing technique to disguise malicious installations as standard files. The technique involves using a special Unicode character
ANN ARBOR ? The New Enterprise Forum is celebrating its tenth anniversary in July during its unusual entrepreneurs month, featuring business success stories hinging on a wacky product or service idea, lucky timing in a market segment, or a chance encounter that become the big break. To celebrate the decade mark, this year NEF will
DETROIT - One of the most innovative new in-field technologies used by the U.S. Army during its campaign in the Middle East was developed at Focus: HOPE, a nonprofit civil rights organization based in Detroit. The Mobile Parts Hospital, a portable manufacturing unit, has been onsite at as many as six separate battlefield locations at