CHICAGO - What will 2013 bring for small business? Barry Moltz, a noted small business expert, said his 2012 predictions proved to be 80 percent correct, but 2013 is a tougher year to predict than last. 1. The economy will grow ? slowly. Quarterly GDP growth of about 2.5 percent becomes the new normal. What
SAN FRANCISCO - Mobile and Mac malware burbles noxiously, data breaches and data mining will cause more havoc with your privacy, and the Web will continue to suffer the ignominy of poorly-written, Swiss-cheesed code as security experts predict lessons from 2012 go unlearned in 2013. The Internet is slowly changing, and security experts say that
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network, announced it has completed milestones on its REACH-3MC Round I fiber-optic project. Ninety-eight percent of all strand, conduit and fiber have been installed of the 1,017 miles of the Round I middle-mile project. In January, 2010 Merit received an ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) award as part
SAN FRANCISCO - Two US whistleblowers, Syria's president, a Mexican drug lord ? and Evgeny Kaspersky, the founder of Kaspersky Lab., one of the biggest international malware-fighting companies ? make it into the list of Wired magazine's Most Dangerous People. �Why dangerous though? What brings together Paula Broadwell whose book cost the CIA?s director David
TEL AVIV - Israel is developing a national program that trains young people for cyber warfare to boost its ability to deal with the increasing number of online attacks. According to The Jerusalem Post's report Wednesday, the program named "Magshimim Le'umit" has been in development for the past three years and targets outstanding pupils aged
ANN ARBOR - Internet-retail giant Amazon remains at the head of the class, according to the annual Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index released by customer experience analytics firm ForeSee. The eighth annual report?based on more than 24,000 customer surveys collected during the prime holiday shopping season between Thanksgiving and Christmas?expands from measuring satisfaction with 40 top
DEARBORN - Ford Motor Company is spending more than $773 million on new equipment and capacity expansions across six manufacturing facilities in southeast Michigan as it delivers on a commitment to invest $6.2 billion in U.S. plants by 2015. The investments in Michigan will create 2,350 new hourly jobs and allow the company to retain
BIRMINGHAM - Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of The Eriksen Group in Birmingham. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 2005, is a retirement consulting firm that provides ongoing and project-based retirement consulting services to their clients throughout the Central United States. Their consulting services include plan design, fiduciary governance,
ALLEGAN - Perrigo Company has completed the acquisition of Cobrek Pharmaceuticals, a privately-held, Chicago, Illinois-based drug development company, for approximately $45 million on a cash free and debt free basis. In May 2008, Perrigo acquired an 18.5 percent minority stake in Cobrek in conjunction with entering into a product development collaborative partnership agreement with the
ALBION - Caster Concepts has promoted Kurtis Myers to Territory Sales Representative for the East Coast region. Myers had previously served as CCI's purchasing and inventory manager for the past five years prior to accepting this assignment. ?Kurtis has played a key role for Caster Concepts over the past five years," stated William Dobbins, President