SOUTHFIELD - Verizon Wireless said Thursday it is closing a call center in Southfield, costing 750 jobs in Michigan, because it doesn't have the capacity to expand at that location. But the company also announced it is closing call centers in Bellevue, Wash., costing 850 jobs, and Houston, Texas, costing another 1,000 jobs. Verizon?s Southfield
LANSING - Corporations spending money to influence elections or political decisions would have to acknowledge and report that spending under a proposed constitutional amendment unveiled Thursday. The Corporate Accountability Amendment, co-chaired by Jocelyn Benson, the 2010 Democratic secretary of state candidate, and Melanie McElroy, executive director of Common Cause Michigan, would require any corporation spending
TRAVERSE CITY - Appia Communications announced it has won a patent for the underlying technology of AppiaSecure, which combines routing, firewall and security management functions in a single appliance. The fine print is the a U.S. patent (8132245) was issued for "Local area network certification system and method." "We are very pleased that the Patent
SAN FRANCISCO - Jennifer Emick, who picketed Scientology with Anonymous, says it took her four hours to put a real name to the well-known hacker handle. The trail to the New York apartment where a hacker named "Sabu" of LulzSec and Anonymous fame was arrested last June can be traced back to a former Anonymous
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems announced an independent auditing firm has confirmed its compliance with SSAE 16, an auditing standard that replaces SAS 70. Plex Systems has received a SOC 1 report and the SOC 2 report is in progress. Presented by the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
LANSING ? More than 600 tourism representatives, economic development professionals and meeting planners from across Michigan will come together in Grand Rapids March 25-27 for the Pure Michigan Governor?s Conference on Tourism 2012. The theme of this year?s conference is ?Delivering on the Pure Michigan Promise.? The conference will feature keynote presentations by Governor Rick
LANSING - Almost two months ago in his State of the State address, Governor Rick Snyder called for campaign finance reforms, but none have made it to his desk so far. Specifically, Snyder said he wanted to have better and more frequent disclosure of campaign contributions. Legislators do not have disclose fundraising or spending activity
SAN FRANCISCO - An online hacker group associated with Anonymous responded to the arrest of six suspected hackers by hacking and defacing Panda Security?s web site. Members of AntiSec hacked the Web site of antivirus company Panda after it was revealed that five men in the U.K., Ireland, New York, and Chicago had been charged
DEARBORN - Ford Motor Co. President and CEO Alan Mulally received $58.3 million in company stock this week as part of a 2009 long-term incentive pay package, the automaker disclosed Tuesday. Mulally received 4.82 million shares of stock, but Ford withheld 1.97 million shares to pay the taxes on the stock award. After taxes, Mulally
JACKSON - Commerce Guys, developers of the Drupal Commerce e-commerce system, Tuesday announced $5 million in venture funding. Commerce Guys is based in Paris, France, with its North American headquarters in Jackson. The round represents Series A funding for the company and was led by the Paris-based investment firm Alven Capital, an independent venture capital