MOUNTAIN VIEW - Google said Thursday it would cut about 200 jobs in sales and marketing, in the third set of layoffs in three months for the company. The search engine company did not say if the layoffs would impact its AdWords headquarters in Ann Arbor. But n a post on the company?s blog, sales
SAN FRANCISCO - Online scammers are making a lucrative business out of redirecting visitors from legitimate Web sites to sites that try to install rogue antivirus software, according to a report due to be released by security firm Finjan on Monday. Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center came across a traffic management server in Ukraine used
ANN ARBOR - Serial entrepreneur, technology investor and University of Michigan graduate Rick Snyder - the former President and COO of Gateway Computer - has formed an exploratory committee to evaluate a run for Michigan governor in 2010. He would run as a Republican. "I will be spending the next several weeks crisscrossing the state,
WASHINGTON DC - President Barack Obama last month handed his auto-industry team a seemingly impossible task: to engineer the most complicated industrial restructuring ever attempted by the federal government, and to do it fast. With almost no experience in the car business, the team's dozen core members have undergone a crash course in the myriad
LANSING ? The Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund, administered by Ann Arbor SPARK, will get a $6.8 million shot in the arm from the Michigan Economic Development Corp., which did an about face Wednesday and invested in an economic development group, rather than directly in a company. The money was approved by the MEDC?s Strategic Economic
DETROIT - John McCandless has been named National Manager of Field Operations for Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Corporate Communications. A long-time public relations professional on the automotive scene in Detroit, his new responsibilities will include corporate communications and community relations activities for Toyota�??s seven regional public relations field offices located in New York, Detroit, Miami,
TROY - High business taxes and training and preparing the workforce are among top issues that confront Michigan's growth industries, according to a Walsh College and EPIC-MRA public opinion survey. The 350 respondents surveyed during the fourth quarter represent advanced automotive materials and manufacturing; life sciences; alternative energy; and defense contracting and homeland security. Respondents
LANSING - Those trying to use stolen logos and false information to trick people into providing credit and other personal information would face stiffer penalties under legislation reported Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee also began discussions of a new trust code. The bills (SB 149 and SB 150 ) would prohibit so-called
LANSING - Alternative energy could be one of the saviors of the Michigan economy. Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth Director Skip Pruss is working to turn that could into is. In the meantime, he is also working to see that much of the federal stimulus money coming to the state is put to
LANSING - Any tax cuts the Legislature enacts must be paid for in a way that does not slash state revenues, Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Friday. Granholm told reporters cutting revenues at a time when there are critical needs in the state would be irresponsible. Granholm made the comments at the end of a week