NEW YORK - A major cyberattack against a European spam tracking company last week appears to have originated from a gang of Russian hackers, The Wall Street Journal reported. Spamhaus, a Geneva-based spam tracking firm, had been the target of a massive distributed-denial-of-service attack, where at one point traffic flowing to the site reached levels
DETROIT ? Eco-Motors announced Tuesday that a Chinese automotive supplier, Zhonding, will build a $200 million factory in Eastern China to build 150,000 of the fuel efficient engines a year. The engine design called OPOC, which stands for opposed piston, opposed cylinder, has half the number of parts of a typical piston engine and could
ANN ARBOR ? The New Enterprise Forum's April 18 meeting will take a look at how social media fits in the general marketing mix of new ventures and how a company can accurately measure and improve Return on Investment with the new digital marketing and networking methods. Panelists include: Linda Girard, Co-Founder/President of Pure Visibility
TROY - Billhighway has landed another client, Phi Lambda, a national women's Christian sorority headquartered in Lubbock, Texas. Billhighway will implement its online group payment system to automate invoicing and dues collection for the sorority's 30 chapters and 2,200 members. Billhighway?s enterprise financial management solution integrates payment processing, online banking and accounting into one system,
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced Tuesday the completion of Round 1 REACH-3MC construction. All infrastructure is installed with fiber-optic cable along the 1,017-mile network extension through rural and underserved areas in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, including all 55 fiber-optic lateral connections to Merit Members from the middle-mile infrastructure. "Merit is proud to announce the completion
GRANDVILLE - Trivalent Group announced an expanded partnership with StillSecure, a leading managed security services and certified compliance company. This partnership will significantly expand its cloud and dedicated hosting solutions to include a new suite of managed security services and compliance offerings to customers, including PCI Complete and HIPAA Essential. Trivalent Group?s managed security solutions
TROY ? WIT President Quaid Saifee said he hoped 70 people who show up for his Business Intelligence and Big Data Summit on March 14. Instead 178 people showed up from business and technology leaders, Fortune 500 companies as well as small to mid-sized Michigan and Ohio companies. ?It show there?s a pent up demand
DETROIT - Verizon on April 3 launched its Powerful Answers Award, a $10 million challenge to find innovative ideas in three core focus areas - healthcare, education and sustainability. Entries must use Verizon networks and technology (wireless, cloud, broadband, etc.) to help deliver solutions that address societal challenges, deliver social benefit and grow markets. With
SAGINAW ? Saginaw County has been selected as the seventh in the under 200,000 population category by Site Selection Magazine. The award recognizes states and metropolitan areas for the numbers of new and expanded facilities announced in the past year. Saginaw County was seventh in the United States with nine projects. Projects are qualified based
MIDLAND - The MidMichigan Innovation Center and BlueWater Angels along with the Office for Innovation at Covenant HealthCare will be co-hosting a health technology forum April 10 to showcase five new Michigan companies - each company having potential to dramatically impact the future of medicine. One of the roles of the Covenant HealthCare Office for