SAN FRANCISCO - Online scammers are making a lucrative business out of redirecting visitors from legitimate Web sites to sites that try to install rogue antivirus software, according to a report due to be released by security firm Finjan on Monday. Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center came across a traffic management server in Ukraine used
WASHINGTON DC - President Barack Obama last month handed his auto-industry team a seemingly impossible task: to engineer the most complicated industrial restructuring ever attempted by the federal government, and to do it fast. With almost no experience in the car business, the team's dozen core members have undergone a crash course in the myriad
LANSING ? The Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund, administered by Ann Arbor SPARK, will get a $6.8 million shot in the arm from the Michigan Economic Development Corp., which did an about face Wednesday and invested in an economic development group, rather than directly in a company. The money was approved by the MEDC?s Strategic Economic
DETROIT - John McCandless has been named National Manager of Field Operations for Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Corporate Communications. A long-time public relations professional on the automotive scene in Detroit, his new responsibilities will include corporate communications and community relations activities for Toyota�??s seven regional public relations field offices located in New York, Detroit, Miami,
ANN ARBOR - Serial entrepreneur, technology investor and University of Michigan graduate Rick Snyder - the former President and COO of Gateway Computer - has formed an exploratory committee to evaluate a run for Michigan governor in 2010. He would run as a Republican. "I will be spending the next several weeks crisscrossing the state,
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - Netstar Corporation, a full service computer solutions provider, announced it has signed an agreement with Online Tech Inc. in Ann Arbor to add Online Tech's colocation and data center services to its set of technology solutions. Online Tech has been looking to expand it�??s reach on the national level with full service
HILLSDALE - With data now zooming across its new high-speed community network, the City of Hillsdale has completed significant upgrades to its network infrastructure and is looking to attract information technology companies to this southern Michigan town. "Hillsdale is working to be at the forefront of Web 2.0 and providing our area with the best
LANSING - Those trying to use stolen logos and false information to trick people into providing credit and other personal information would face stiffer penalties under legislation reported Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee also began discussions of a new trust code. The bills (SB 149 and SB 150 ) would prohibit so-called
LANSING - School districts across the state could expand the use of sinking funds to cover their bus and technology purchases under legislation that cleared the House Tuesday. HB 4313 passed the chamber on a 74-35 vote after House Republicans challenged that the bill increases the statutory limits on ad valorem property taxes levied for
TROY- Automation Alley has hired a Maryann Daddow as its new Director of Finance and has promoted Danielle Delonge to the newly created position of Business Accelerator Client Champion. Daddow is responsible for summarizing and forecasting company business activity, as well as serving as the Alley's financial representative. She has 26 years of progressively responsible