LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan announced that David Jessup has been named the association's Director of Government Relations. Jessup will assist Vice President Government Relations David Palsrok in administering the association's government relations activities. Before joining the staff of the Small Business Association of Michigan, Jessup was the Government Relations Director at
SAN FRANCISCO - In a digital heist reminiscent of a John le Carre novel, more than $9 million worth of greenhouse-gas emissions permits were stolen from the Czech Republic electricity and carbon trading registry earlier this month and transferred to accounts in other countries, at the same time as the Prague-based registry office was evacuated
TRAVERSE CITY - Appia Communications has landed on Nine Lives Media's fourth-annual MSPmentor 100, a research report identifying the world's top 100 managed service providers. This year's MSPmentor 100 report includes MSPs from North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australia. "We are again honored to appear on the MSP100," said Victor von Schlegell,
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - PayPal was hit by an outage early Friday morning that prevented customers from using the online payment service for more than an hour. The outage started at 12:11 am PT, according to PayPal's Developer Network. PayPal said it was resolved by 1:23 a.m. PT, though the company acknowledged that access to
YPSILANTI ? The New Enterprise Forum celebrated its 25th anniversary Thursday night at Eastern Michigan University's Student Center where Tom Porter received the 1st Annual Tom Porter Leadership Award ? an honor that acknowledged his outstanding contribution to the advancement of the entrepreneurial community. Dick Sarns received a 25th anniversary Lifetime Achievement Award for his
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder saw one of the products of the film production tax credit used against him in coverage of his plan to eliminate the program as part of his 2011-12 budget. The Los Angeles Times led its story on the proposal not with a picture of Snyder, but of Clint Eastwood as
LANSING - Gov. Snyder proposed major changes Thursday to the Michigan?s tax system, which includes the promised elimination of the Michigan Business Tax, to be replaced with a flat Corporate Income Tax set at 6 percent. The plan includes the scheduled reduction in the individual income tax rate from 4.35 percent to 4.25 percent. Because
DETROIT - The College of Engineering at Wayne State University will be the first in the country to offer graduate and undergraduate certificate programs in advanced energy storage systems as the state's automotive industry transitions into producing more electric drive vehicles. The new certificate programs draw from Wayne State's curriculum and research in electric drive
OTTAWA, Canada - A cyberattack against Canada that tried to access classified government information and forced two key departments to go offline has been traced back to China, according to a story today from CBC News. Sources told the CBC that the attacks were initially discovered in early January but that it's unknown whether the
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder Wednesday named a leading Detroit attorney with expertise in the regulatory world to head the Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth, which will soon be renamed and restructured. With Steven Hilfinger, managing partner of the Foley and Lardner LLP law firm, taking the helm at DELEG, Snyder now has