DETROIT - Verizon on April 3 launched its Powerful Answers Award, a $10 million challenge to find innovative ideas in three core focus areas - healthcare, education and sustainability. Entries must use Verizon networks and technology (wireless, cloud, broadband, etc.) to help deliver solutions that address societal challenges, deliver social benefit and grow markets. With
SAGINAW ? Saginaw County has been selected as the seventh in the under 200,000 population category by Site Selection Magazine. The award recognizes states and metropolitan areas for the numbers of new and expanded facilities announced in the past year. Saginaw County was seventh in the United States with nine projects. Projects are qualified based
TROY ? WIT President Quaid Saifee said he hoped 70 people who show up for his Business Intelligence and Big Data Summit on March 14. Instead 178 people showed up from business and technology leaders, Fortune 500 companies as well as small to mid-sized Michigan and Ohio companies. ?It show there?s a pent up demand
SAN FRANCISCO - In September 2011, security companies first noticed a new malware scam for OS X, which posed as a fake Adobe Flash installer, and hence became known as Flashback. Unlike prior scams, this malware took on some new approaches to tricking users by infecting common browsers, disabling Apple's XProtect system, and eventually morphing
SAN FRANCISCO - Samsung has tapped Absolute Software to embed the corporate security solutions provider's patented persistence technology onto its mobile devices -- most notably onto the upcoming Galaxy S4 smartphone. Headed for Samsung Knox when it debuts this year, Absolute boasted that Samsung's mobile devices will then be the first worldwide to offer "constant,
MENLO PARK - Facebook unveiled a new Home on Android at a press event at its California headquarters - a family of apps meant to keep mobile audiences always affixed to its social network. Facebook Home consists of a set of the social network's apps that become the home of your Android phone, CNET News.Com
HOLLAND ? A West Michigan manufacturer turned a bad experience with off-the-shelf Enterprise Resource Planning systems into a business opportunity. When Fogg Filler looked to buy an ERP system and realized none of the available solutions fit its needs, it set loose an internal team to develop a system that worked for the company, said
GRAND RAPIDS - Investors attracted to deals on the coasts for years overlooked Michigan as a flyover state, but those perceptions seem to be slowly changing as more outside money sets its sights on in-state companies. Just ask Ned Tomasevic, principal of Los Angeles-based private investment firm Toma Capital Management LLC. Tomasevic, who earned his
HOLLAND - Four years ago, Fogg Filler Co. needed a new Enterprise Resource Planning system because the system it had custom-built in the 1980s was no longer efficient. The company wanted a new system to improve engineering efficiency and to offer a unified platform for enhanced visibility across the company, said Todd Kemme, engineering manager
SOUTHFIELD ? The Motor City ISSA chapter's April meeting will feature Mark Stanislav who will offer his perspective on the 10 tips for success when you hire a Pen Tester. The April 18 meeting also will feature a discussion of how to mitigate 21st century cyberthreats - a five-point plan for selecting enterprise security Stanislav,