RICHMOND HILLS, Ontario - A recent poll commissioned by Yahoo! Small Business and conducted by research firm Harris Interactive has found that a large chunk of holiday shoppers will be buying their gifts online from small businesses. A total of 2,766 U.S. adults were surveyed to measure the sentiment among the general online adult population
FARMINGTON HILLS ? It's harder to find anything meaningfully positive when you stack the state of Michigan up against the country as a whole, David Sowerby, Chief Market Analyst for Loomis Sayles & Co. told a business group last week. Some five years after the rest of the United States emerged from recession, the Michigan
ANN ARBOR ? Here's a story you don't read everyday. An up-and-coming technology company has moved from Florida to Michigan. 9thXchange, an eBay-like company that sells digital files that could include music, audio and video, will relocate from Melbourne, Florida, to Ann Arbor. CEO John Bonaccorso said three hurricanes in 2005 that hit Florida prompted
LANSING - A compromise cable TV franchise bill, which boosts public access fees cable companies pay but does not deal with the question of local contract abrogation or of Internet neutrality, passed the Michigan Senate on a 26-12 vote on Tuesday. The compromise on HB 6456 was then quickly approved by the House and went
LANSING - It appears the Michigan cable TV franchise bill is headed for Senate sign off on Tuesday without wording that would address abrogation of current franchise agreements with local governments or tackle the issue of net neutrality, which Google has been pressing for. The chamber is expected to vote on HB 6456 on Tuesday.
SOUTHFIELD - Verizon Wireless Tuesday announced it will expand the national rollout of its Evolution-Data Optimized 3G wide-area network to the greater Lansing and Flint areas before New Year's Day. In the greater Flint area, Verizon Wireless? BroadbandAccess and V CAST service coverage spans approximately 1,020 square miles and includes Beecher, Clio, Davison, Flint, Fenton,
WASHINGTON DC - Politicians in Washington, D.C., spent the last two years promising new laws on everything from Net neutrality to computer security and social-networking sites. But when the 109th Congress finally adjourned over the weekend, ending 12 years of Republican rule of the U.S. House of Representatives, few technology-related bills had actually made it
MADISON HEIGHTS ? Interactive Voice Response Solutions provider bridgeSpeak said Tuesday it has partnered with Hilger Performance to help expand its presence in Chrysler Group dealers. Joe Hilger will leverage a career of more than three decades with Chrysler Group to help bridgeSpeak further develop strategic alliances and increase penetration with Chrysler Group dealers nationwide.
SEATTLE - Microsoft on Tuesday released seven security updates with patches for 11 security vulnerabilities, most of which affect the Windows operating system. The software maker originally planned to release only six security bulletins as part of its monthly patch cycle, CNET News.Com reported. However, it added a seventh to deliver a fix for two
DETROIT- Compuware Corporation on Tuesday announced its board has decided to repurchase another 34 million shares of common stock, starting Dec. 14. The net result will be to drive up Compuware?s share price. In addition to the adoption of the 10b5-1 plan to repurchase stock, the Board has authorized a separate share repurchase of $200