HOLLAND - A West Michigan manufacturing startup has taken the international packaging industry by storm creating an eco-friendly divider that's generating as much buzz in the business as bubble wrap did a half century ago. ITB Packaging LLC ? the original name was The Box Packaging ? makes lower cost, flexible package dividers made of
GRAND RAPIDS ? 2008 was a year nearly every business would like to forget, including Cornerstone University. The faith-based institution of higher education was suffering its third straight year of declining enrollment. As a result, tuition fees plunged, while the stagnant economy crimped donations. Cornerstone posted an audited net loss of $4.8 million. Fast forward
GRAND RAPIDS ? In the old days of telecommunications, a business would buy a phone system from a single carrier and be good for a decade or so. Phones were just for voice calls or sending faxes. Not today. Alexander Graham Bell' s invention has morphed into a computer for communications that deliver audio, video,
WASHINGTON DC - The commander of U.S Cyber Command says the military has good offensive cyber capabilities and good defensive cyber capabilities. The problem is they're operating as two separate teams that need to be melded into one. The Defense Department rarely talks publicly about its offensive cyber capabilities or precisely what its cyber warriors
ANN ARBOR ? A University of Michigan student startup, Fetchnotes, is part of the 1 percent of new ventures that have made it into TechStars, where it can get up to $100,000 in venture funding. Fetchnotes uses a cloud-based note-jotting and organizing system. It has more than 19,000 users. The week, the company moves to
GRAND RAPIDS - Come to an aimWest panel on Sept. 12 and learn how media outlets are using Social to enhance and distribute their content as well as expand their audience. How are television, radio, print and online news organizations utilizing what some thought would kill them? Panelists: Vincent Duffy, News director from Michigan Public
WASHINGTON D.C. - Children's advocacy groups last week reportedly file complaints with the FTC against large corporations over brand-related online games that ask kids for friends' e-mail addresses without parental consent. The debate over personal data on the Internet and how it is used is always heated, but it becomes even more so when it
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. ? Google, which settled a privacy case with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission last week, is building a group dedicated to finding and solving "subtle, unusual, and emergent" problems with its products - a "red team" dedicated to solving privacy problems. The team will be focused on tracking down and fixing privacy
MOSCOW - A safer way to conduct online transactions and a new exploit blocker are the keystones to Kaspersky Lab's 2013 security suites, the company announced. The major new feature that's in both Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2013 (download) is the exploit blocking engine called Automatic Exploit Prevention, CNET News.Com reported. It's
ANN ARBOR - MichBio has appointed David McGuire as the Director, Membership & Operations. He repots to MichBio President and CEO Stephen Rapundalo. McGuire is in charge of managing MichBio?s membership goals; including awareness of existing MichBio services, the expansion of new programs, and supporting the overall health of MichBio?s member companies and in-kind partners.