SAN FRANCISCO - Removing software that comes with your brand-new Windows computer can be frustrating, but recently discovered software on new Lenovo laptops - the top-selling laptop brand in 2014 - can put your entire digital life at risk. The preloaded software, called Superfish, alters your search results to show you different ads than you
DETROIT - Leaders of the state's largest companies see both the state and national economies improving over the next year-and-a-half, Business Leaders for Michigan said in releasing its latest forecast. The survey showed 60 percent of business leaders expect both economies to improve in the next six months. That was up from 48 percent for
GRAND RAPIDS ? Hundreds of developers, software engineers and programmers will gather on March 21 at Calvin College for GRDevDay, a day-long conference put together by West Michigan developers to highlight the latest technologies. Only a few tickets remain. The keynote will be given by Rachel Appel, formerly of Microsoft, and now working as a
DETROIT ? Lt. Gov. Brian Calley will be pinch hitting for his boss, Gov. Rick Snyder, as the keynote for the Detroit Chinese Business Association Feb. 27 at the Motor City Casino Soundboard Room where he will help ring in the Chinese New Year of the Sheep. Snyder was recently hospitalized with a blood clot
AUBURN HILLS - If you are a startup or early-stage, growth-based business looking for funding, come meet and listen to capital expert, Mike Brennan, capital strategist from the Macomb-Oakland University INCubator. Brennan ? not to be confused with MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan ? will cover Michigan's various capital sources and talk about how to properly
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Did the US and UK hack their way into SIM cards used in mobile phones? That's the question one SIM card maker is trying to investigate. Dutch company Gemalto manufactures SIM cards for mobile phones, which it sells to around 450 carriers throughout the world, including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint. The
DETROIT ? The Detroit Chinese Business Association will ring in the year of the Sheep at the Motor City Casino Soundboard Room where a government delegation from China will join the celebrations. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who has been working to improve business relations between the two countries, will deliver the keynote address. In the
KALAMAZOO ? Mobile-phone external battery maker, mophie, which began life in a pole barn near Kalamazoo a decade ago, had an international coming out party of sorts when it aired its first TV commercials during the Super Bowl, one of the most watched television events each year. Spending millions of dollars on advertising had not
ANN ARBOR ? Security imagery and data analytics tools maker Pixel Velocity announced it has raised about $10 million through a preferred stock sale ? but the company declined to provide any details about the investors. The only detail released is Daroth Capital Advisors LLC of New York City acted as financial adviser and placement
ANN ARBOR ? In this MITechNews.Com podcast, Editor Mike Brennan talks about headlines that include Michigan Ranking High in jobs market, Tech Employment in Metro Detroit rivals major U.S. Tech Clusters, MEDC launches Connect Michigan broadband app. To listen, MITechNews.Com