TROY - Automation Alley announced Thursday that the technology networking group received $394,800 in federal funding to build an international business center at its Troy headquarters. The money came from the Fiscal Year 2010 Omnibus Appropriations bill signed into law Thursday by President Obama. The project will create a 'soft business landing' center for international
ANN ARBOR - RealKidz, a clothing company aimed at above-average and average-sized girls, has been awarded a loan from the Eastern Washtenaw Microloan Fund, a funding opportunity for start-ups that's part of the Michigan Microloan Fund Program, which loans from $10,000 to $50,000 per startup. No dollar figure was announced. RealKidz will use the funding
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Mozilla has updated its Firefox browser to patch three critical security holes. Firefox 3.5.6 and 3.0.16 both fix earlier memory corruption issues. "We presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code," the security advisory said. In addition, the earlier version of Firefox 3.5
ZEELAND - Momentum announced Thursday that it is accepting applications for its 2010 program. Momentum is a pre-seed stage funding and incubation program that provides initial investments, mentoring and business launch assistance to entrepreneurs who have innovative web technology and application ideas. "I began Momentum last year to discover new startup ideas in Michigan and
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems, Inc., provider of Plex Online, the No. 1 rated manufacturing ERP software, announced Thursday that PowerPlex 2010, the company's annual user conference, will take place May 17-19, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Dearborn. The event convenes manufacturers from a wide variety of industries including automotive, food and beverage, aerospace and
NEW YORK - This year's online holiday-shopping season has topped $19.9 billion so far - a 3 percent jump over the same period in 2008, according to ComScore. Online sales were bolstered last week when consumers spent more than $800 million on two separate days, ComScore said. On Thursday, for example, consumers coughed up $852
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Online display advertising, viewed as inefficient and time-consuming for many marketers, has been a tough sell in recent years, but Google aims to change that. In 2010, Google expects the "if you build it, they will come" model to pay off. The company rolled out a new version of its DoubleClick ad
CANTON TOWNSHIP - Four of the world's leading renewable energy venture capital firms are partnering for the first time with co-investments to bring to market new technology that will make wind turbines more efficient, reliable and affordable by investing $13.2 million in Danotek Motion Technologies of Canton. GE Energy Financial Services, CMEA Capital, Khosla Ventures
POPT FALLS, Idaho - Social networking sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace will pose one of the biggest threats in 2010, according to TriGeo Network Security, a provider of security information and event management technology for midmarket enterprises. "Employees tweeting and chatting online are inadvertently handing hackers the 'inside' information that they need to
ROCHESTER HILLS - Teri Williams is known as The Bliss Lady. On Dec. 17, she will be talk about her brand of mentoring, and karmic cheerleading at the Third Thursday Roundtable. Williams is founder of TheBlissNetwork.com, an online resource community. She also co-hosts and co-produces YouNeekTV, a TV show that airs regularly on Southeast Michigan