LANSING - Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced Tuesday that Area Development magazine has awarded the State of Michigan and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation a Silver Shovel in the magazine's annual Gold & Silver Shovel awards competition recognizing state economic development agencies that drive significant job creation through innovative incentives, infrastructure improvements and programs to
DETROIT - TiE Detroit chapter has partnered with the Detroit Regional Chamber, the largest chamber of commerce in the country, and 66 other chambers of commerce to create the biggest networking reception of the summer July 9 at the Rostertail in Detroit. Be sure to bring tons of business cards, there will be tons of
DALLAS - AT&T on Wednesday announced small business customers nationwide can now purchase Acer, HP and Panasonic netbooks and laptops, featuring AT&T's embedded wireless technology, through the company?s relationship with CDW, a provider of technology solutions. The effort is part of AT&T's initiative to introduce wireless capabilities into a wide variety of emerging devices beyond
PONTIAC - GuidePoint Systems on Monday launched two new GPS-based products aimed at helping car dealerships protect their loaner cars and unsold vehicle inventory ? but also increase their profitability. The supplier of GPS tracking and convenience products said it has begun marketing a new LOANER CAR PROTECTION PLAN to help protect vehicles loaned out
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - Butzel Long attorneys will host an Employee Free Choice Act Briefing from 8:30 a.m. to Noon on June 26 at Butzel Long's Bloomfield Hills office located at Stoneridge West, 41000 Woodward Avenue. The program is designed for senior managers, senior human resource executives, and in-house counsel. The half-day seminar is entitled, �??Employee
DETROIT - Asterand plc, which provides human tissue and human tissue-based services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies engaged in drug discovery research, announced that John Stchur was named winner of the Crain's Detroit Business? CFO of the Year award for Public Companies with Revenues Less than $1B. Award winners and finalists were honored on June
SAN JOSE, Ca. - Trend Micro has unveiled a new release of its data loss prevention (DLP) solution, LeakProof 5.0, with added features and benefits designed to reduce the complexity and cost often associated with the discovery, monitoring and blocking of sensitive data. LeakProof is designed to protect information such as customer and employee data,
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - McAfee has tied its next generation of firewall products into its ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) management software. The security vendor has also opened up ePO to integrate third-party partners' products into the management frame. McAfee Firewall Enterprise (formerly Sidewinder), McAfee Firewall Enterprise Control Center and McAfee Firewall Enterprise Profiler were designed to
PALO ALTO, Ca. - The application landscape has changed over the years and yet the firewall hasn't. With this in mind, Palo Alto Networks is telling customers and channel partners its' new PAN-OS 3.0 software for its firewalls is designed to supersede the 'find it and kill it' model other security technologies are based upon.
FERNDALE - Robert Buxbaum of Oakland County's REB Research & Consulting company has been awarded an SBIR Phase 1 grant from the Department of Energy to research new, high temperature materials for use in Fourth generation nuclear power plants that could burn waste generated by other nuclear reactors. The primary material used in current nuclear