DETROIT - ACTIVATE, which offers women the opportunity to start their own technology companies, is offering complimentary introductory sessions in person or online starting April 23 for women to learn more about the program. In-person sessions are offered in Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids and Troy. "ACTiVATE focuses on women with early start ups, a technology
DEARBORN - Ford in the first quarter of 2013 sold more than 20,000 hybrids, the best hybrid sales quarter ever for Ford. Ford's hybrid sales were up 324 percent nationally over 2012, achieving 16 percent share of the electrified vehicle market - up from 4 percent last year. This was the first quarter in which
DETROIT - A free workshop designed to inspire entrepreneurship and economic self-sufficiency will be held at Focus: HOPE on April 23 as part of the 2013 Money Smart Week. The workshop will be held in the Center for Advanced Technologies, 1400 Oakman Boulevard, and is open to all aspiring entrepreneurs. Topics which will be presented
SEOUL - South Korea has accused North Korea of launching a recent cyberattack that hit tens of thousands of PCs. A spokesman for South Korea's Internet agency said today that six computers in North Korea were identified as the source of the attack, according to The Guardian. Those computers used more than 1,000 IP addresses
SOUTHFIELD - Technology PR firm Airfoil and Newell PR, a China-based independent public relations firm that has won more technology awards than any other national firm, announced an exclusive affiliate relationship to provide services to each firm's respective technology client interests in the Asia Pacific and U.S. markets. "Airfoil Global Group chose Newell as our
MOUNT PLEASANT - Central Michigan University engineering students are constructing a new way to create electrical energy using the vibrations of pedestrian footsteps walking in and out of CMU's Engineering and Technology building. This energy harvester has been used so far to power a temperature display. But should this research be successful, CMU could create
FENTON - Digital marketing agency 3Sixty Interactive was recently listed on topseos.com list of the Top 100 Best SEO Companies for April 2013. Each month topseo.com releases a list of the one hundred best SEO consultants in he digital marketing industry based on independent research done by a research team which covers thousands of online
REDMOND - Microsoft will toughen up its products' security by adding dual-factor authentication soon, according to a report by Liveside.net. Judging by details in the Microsoft-focused blog, the approach closely mirrors what Google did years ago: authorization requiring both a password (the first factor) and a special six-digit code retrieved from an authenticator app on
SAN FRANCISCO - Video service Vudu began warning users today that it has instituted a systemwide password reset following an office break-in last month. A burglary March 24 resulted in the loss of hard drives that contained users' sensitive personal information, including names, e-mail addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, account activity, dates of birth, and
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced Tuesday the completion of Round 1 REACH-3MC construction. All infrastructure is installed with fiber-optic cable along the 1,017-mile network extension through rural and underserved areas in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, including all 55 fiber-optic lateral connections to Merit Members from the middle-mile infrastructure. "Merit is proud to announce the completion