WASHINGTON DC - Republicans in Congress have all but killed off the Marketplace Fairness Act, a long-debated bill that calls for online retailers to collect sales tax in the same way as brick-and-mortar stores. The news is a victory for e-Bay and small online retailers, but a defeat for Wal-Mart and traditional retailers who say
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LANSING ? Dan Lohrmann, the long-time Michigan Chief Information Security Officer, has spent the past several months accumulating to his new role in the private sector where he is Chief Strategist and Chief Security Officer at Security Mentor, which is developing executive training for business executives. Lohrmann said while still working at the State he
NOVI - Much of the discussion about Michigan?s economic recovery centers on attracting and retaining businesses and jobs, and on educating our students to be well prepared for those jobs. In keeping with ITC?s desire to be a good neighbor and an involved corporate citizen of the communities we serve, we actively support organizations and
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation and Detroit-based Community Push Wednesday announced the launch of a new crowdfunding campaign through Michigan crowdfunding platform Patronicity as part of the MEDC Public Spaces Community Places initiative. The campaign will support phase two of The Wig, a community-led project to transform the vacant and blighted Wigle Recreation
LANSING ? You know when we told you last week that you had to get your nominations in by Nov. 7 for the 2015 Small Business Innovation Awards and the Michigan Celebrates Small Business? Well, the deadline has been extended to this Friday, Nov. 14. So there?s still time to nominate your favorite company, even
DETROIT ? John Bailey, founder of John Bailey & Associates Public Relations, has come out of retirement to join Truscott Rossman as its first business strategist. Bailey sold his PR firm to Lambert, Edwards & Associates, a West Michigan public and investor relations agency, in Aug. 2009. Bailey, a member of the Public Relations Society
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate executives traveling in Asia may need to be extra cautions the next time they connect to a hotel's Wi-Fi network - that is, if they haven't already been hacked. Over the last four years, malicious hackers have been stealing data from company executives while they stay in luxury hotels in an
SAN FRANCISCO - Hackers have a new way to break into Apple mobile devices using Web pages, text messages and emails to fool users into downloading fake apps that can leak their information, according to a new report from cybersecurity company FireEye. There's no evidence hackers have started doing this in the US, but FireEye
SAN FRANCISCO - It's bad enough that Verizon and AT&T have unleashed a new breed of "supercookie" that can track your every online move, even as you switch between your smartphone, tablet and TV. Far worse is the possibility of abuse by advertisers, governments and hackers, privacy experts warn. "Any website you're going to end