WASHINGTON ? Small businesses interested in exporting now have a new online tool to help them tap into the global marketplace to grow their business. Developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Small Business Administration, Six Steps to Begin Exporting is the latest tool in the National Export Initiative toolbox to help
WEST BLOOMFIELD ? First it was Simple Pumpkin Face, a Mr. Potato Head for the iPhone. Now Captain Moustache is back with the next Holiday-themed iPhone ap, the dreidel, a virtual top that lets users earn Hanukkah shekels (Israeli coins), and beat opponents competing for the biggest pot of chocolate coins. A dreidel is the
CALEDONIA, Mich. - MarketLab Inc., which is a catalog supplier of specialty products and services for healthcare professionals, announced Monday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Petulama, Calif.-based Newmatic Medical. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Newmatic Medical is a direct marketer of MRI products
SOUTHFIELD - Verizon Wireless announced Monday that it is near completion of a major capacity improvement project for its high-speed 3G network in Michigan this year that will ensure the company continues to stay ahead of its customers' growing data usage on their smart phones, wireless modems and handsets. The project has entailed adding 3G
WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano would have the power to "establish and enforce" cybersecurity requirements including issuing fines of up to $100,000 a day for non compliance with DHS directives. Legislation introduced this week would allow Napolitano to levy those and other civil penalties on noncompliant companies that the government deems "critical," a
SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea has installed digital "bunkers" to prevent a repeat of the massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that crippled parts of the country last year. The nation was floored after huge streams of junk internet data poured across South Korea's networks last year, targeting the infrastructure of government and businesses in what
SAN FRANCISCO - BlackBerry maker Research in Motion says news reports suggesting that it's close to an agreement to provide India with lawful access to monitor and access network data are "inaccurate" and "misleading." One story CNET found, published yesterday in the Indian paper Mint, quotes an unnamed senior official from India's Home Ministry who
SAN FRANCISCO - Novell, a software company that rose to power along with Intel-based computers but failed to keep up with rivals such as Microsoft and Red Hat, announced Monday an end to its independence with a Microsoft-boosted $2.2 billion acquisition by Attachmate. Under the agreement, privately held Attachmate will pay $6.10 per share for
ROLLING MEADOWS ? TG Fluid Systems USA Inc. of Brighton has received a 2010 Award from the Association for Manufacturing Excellence maintaining global competitiveness throughout unstable economic conditions and positioning its organizations as leaders during the economy's recovery phase. AME?s Manufacturing Excellence Awards honor companies that demonstrate significant progress in their journeys toward enterprise excellence
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems, provider of Plex Online, the No. 1 rated SaaS manufacturing ERP software, has released a new new paper from researchers at Aberdeen Group that sheds light on the acceptance of software as a service (SaaS) ERP systems. The report is titled ?Leveraging SaaS ERP for Impressive Results? and is available