DETROIT ? Eco-Motors announced Tuesday that a Chinese automotive supplier, Zhonding, will build a $200 million factory in Eastern China to build 150,000 of the fuel efficient engines a year. The engine design called OPOC, which stands for opposed piston, opposed cylinder, has half the number of parts of a typical piston engine and could
TROY - Billhighway has landed another client, Phi Lambda, a national women's Christian sorority headquartered in Lubbock, Texas. Billhighway will implement its online group payment system to automate invoicing and dues collection for the sorority's 30 chapters and 2,200 members. Billhighway?s enterprise financial management solution integrates payment processing, online banking and accounting into one system,
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 ? The New Enterprise Forum's April 18 meeting will take a look at how social media fits in the general marketing mix of new ventures and how a company can accurately measure and improve Return on Investment with the new digital marketing and networking methods. Panelists include: Linda Girard, Co-Founder/President of Pure Visibility
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
NEW YORK - A major cyberattack against a European spam tracking company last week appears to have originated from a gang of Russian hackers, The Wall Street Journal reported. Spamhaus, a Geneva-based spam tracking firm, had been the target of a massive distributed-denial-of-service attack, where at one point traffic flowing to the site reached levels
LANSING ? The Port Huron Area School District was awarded a $99,365 grant for installation of energy efficient lighting in seven elementary schools, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced Tuesday. ?Replacing obsolete lighting equipment will make the school environment healthier for students and also bring energy and cost saving benefits to the school district,? said
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
GRAND RAPIDS - The West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum announce the winners of its 2013 Essay Contest ? A Master of Management & Master Gardener; a Locavore and Foodbeet blogger; and a writer, researcher, builder and remodeler. Michele VanHouten wins highest honors with her essay The Country Cemetery. Honorable Mentions go to Theresa Hogerheide (From
MIDLAND - The MidMichigan Innovation Center and BlueWater Angels along with the Office for Innovation at Covenant HealthCare will be co-hosting a health technology forum April 10 to showcase five new Michigan companies - each company having potential to dramatically impact the future of medicine. One of the roles of the Covenant HealthCare Office for