DETROIT - General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra on Friday called on the world’s auto industry to collaborate to develop cybersecurity standards to not only protect the physical security of vehicle owners, but also the personal data they increasingly transmit through the connected vehicle. “Cybersecurity protects physical safety, privacy and data,” Barra said at
SOUTHFIELD – Connected vehicles must be designed and manufactured with security in mind, warns a report released Thursday that offers ways in which the auto industry can protect itself from hackers. The report, researched over five months by more than 50 auto cybersecurity experts, was released by the Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center based
DETROIT - Safety, rather than the rush to be first to market, must be fundamental to the development of autonomous vehicle technology, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. The government will move ahead with plans to release new guidelines covering the development of self-driving vehicles later this summer, Foxx said during a speech in
DETROIT - Melih Oztalay of Birmingham was an eye witness to the attempted military coup in Turkey Friday night, July 15. He has been with us as the CEO of SmartFinds but joins Internet Advisor as a freelance reporter to give a first-hand account of the attempt to take over the Turkish government by certain military commanders.
LUDINGTON - Mason County is offering entrepreneurs with viable business ideas or those who run a start-up with less than $100,000 in annual sales to compete for $50,000 in prize money that is on the table until July 31. The fine print is if your company or idea wins, you must either start the business
BOULDER, Co. - A new reports says nearly 34 percent of U.S. workers now freelance, and among millennials that figure rises to 38 percent. With interest in freelancing growing among professionals, and employers hiring for more freelance workers, FlexJobs has identified companies recently hiring freelancers in five in-demand career fields for freelance job listings. “The
GRAND RAPIDS - The automotive industry is rapidly changing, but is it in a way that consumers want. Michigan firm Jacobs Media has for years been doing research to find out, and their sister firm, jacAPPS, an app development firm (and MTAM member) puts that research to work in the apps it developers for its
ROCHESTER HILLS - To stay competitive in today’s high-tech business world, Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs) need to keep their IT network up and running. But hiring a Chief Information Officer (CIO) can be beyond many SMBs’ budgets. CIOs can command salaries well over $150,000 a year. Instead of investing heavily in a CIO, organizations
ROYAL OAK - On M2 (Squared) Techcast Monday July 18, Diva Tech Talk professional Kathleen Norton-Schock will interview Tracy-Ann Palmer, Regional Manager, Central Enterprise IT Platform, Cisco, who will discuss how the Internet of Things is Changing the World. Returning to the show will be Robert Tessanne, Red Level Vice President of Cloud & Technology
DETROIT - A group of community-minded people in Detroit are focusing this summer on how to solve policing problems, certainly a hot topic with violence raging across the country between police and the citizens they have been hired to serve and protect. Design Action Lab, a free program focused on community-driven problem solving, and Bamboo
