DETROIT - The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center and Eastern Michigan University recognize the sacrifice our soldiers have made and want to help those veterans seeking to start their own businesses by offering a veteran-specific New Venture program at no-cost, starting October 13 at the EMU Livonia campus. The New Venture class normally
WASHINGTON DC - The commander of U.S Cyber Command says the military has good offensive cyber capabilities and good defensive cyber capabilities. The problem is they're operating as two separate teams that need to be melded into one. The Defense Department rarely talks publicly about its offensive cyber capabilities or precisely what its cyber warriors
GRAND RAPIDS - Come to an aimWest panel on Sept. 12 and learn how media outlets are using Social to enhance and distribute their content as well as expand their audience. How are television, radio, print and online news organizations utilizing what some thought would kill them? Panelists: Vincent Duffy, News director from Michigan Public
ANN ARBOR ? A University of Michigan student startup, Fetchnotes, is part of the 1 percent of new ventures that have made it into TechStars, where it can get up to $100,000 in venture funding. Fetchnotes uses a cloud-based note-jotting and organizing system. It has more than 19,000 users. The week, the company moves to
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. ? Google, which settled a privacy case with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission last week, is building a group dedicated to finding and solving "subtle, unusual, and emergent" problems with its products - a "red team" dedicated to solving privacy problems. The team will be focused on tracking down and fixing privacy
MOSCOW - A safer way to conduct online transactions and a new exploit blocker are the keystones to Kaspersky Lab's 2013 security suites, the company announced. The major new feature that's in both Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2013 (download) is the exploit blocking engine called Automatic Exploit Prevention, CNET News.Com reported. It's
HOLLAND - A West Michigan manufacturing startup has taken the international packaging industry by storm creating an eco-friendly divider that's generating as much buzz in the business as bubble wrap did a half century ago. ITB Packaging LLC ? the original name was The Box Packaging ? makes lower cost, flexible package dividers made of
GRAND HAVEN - Atlas Ergonomics and Guldmann have joined forces to improve the effectiveness, outcomes and operations of Safe Patient Handling Programs. The alliance combines Atlas?s data-driven, risk assessment and program operations software with Guldmann?s lifting and handling technology. In addition to lifting and handling equipment with integrated CareLift Management (CLM) software, Guldmann now offers
WASHINGTON D.C. ? Everyone has a story, and now the U.S. Small Business Administration is giving entrepreneurs a new online platform to share their story and showcase their successful and thriving businesses. Today, SBA launched ?Small Business Owners Speak,? an interactive platform featuring videos from entrepreneurs from across the country that have started or grown
WASHINGTON D.C. - Children's advocacy groups last week reportedly file complaints with the FTC against large corporations over brand-related online games that ask kids for friends' e-mail addresses without parental consent. The debate over personal data on the Internet and how it is used is always heated, but it becomes even more so when it