DETROIT - Last week, the cover of Time Magazine captured a snapshot of a ruined city. It could have been Stalingrad in the 1940s when young untrained Russian youths were thrown into desperate battle with one rifle shared between two men, to save a city that was already reduced to rubble. In fact last week's
NEW YORK - While social media has garnered enormous exposure in the business press, it has translated into very little user among small business owners and managers, according to a new Citibank / GfK Roper survey. According to the survey of 500 small business executives across the United States, 76 percent have not found social
DETROIT - A $250 million grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, could easily resolve the late breaking issues that prompted the unexpected, last minute collapse of the proposed Penske Automotive Group purchase of Saturn, according to Todd Ingersoll, Saturn's Retailer Council member. "This is well within the parameters of grants already made through
DETROIT - Next week SecureWorld 2009 comes again to Detroit! Mark your calendar for September 29 - 30 to come to the Ford Conference & Event Center in Dearborn to get up to speed on the rapidly changing world of security. Hear keynote speaker Jeff Bardin discuss how extremists are using social networking today to
WASHINGTON - The Internet is arguably the most significant technological development of our time. It has changed the way we communicate, the way we learn, and the way we see things. It brings previously isolated and disparate information to our fingertips, almost instantaneously, and has become the primary means by which we conduct business and
GRAND RAPIDS - From the time he was a kid, Keith Brophy had an interest in running his own business. The entrepreneurial seed germinated throughout his college years pursuing a degree in computer science at the University of Michigan, an eight-year stint at IBM in Washington, D.C. and sprouted when he landed a job in
MIDLAND - Advanced Battery Concepts is a company with an exciting new power play. The company has developed a proprietary battery electrode technology, branded GreenSeal, which is anticipated to enhance lead acid battery power tenfold or nearly double the energy, without additional material costs. "GreenSeal technology has an additional advantage; it makes traditional lead acid
SAGINAW - The Kalamazoo Promise provides Kalamazoo Public School graduates with up to 100 percent tuition scholarship for post-secondary education. Its mission is to transform the community and stimulate the economy through a new generation of learners. With this letter, I'd like to respectfully challenge area business organizations to launch a new Entrepreneurship Promise (E
DETROIT - You fought for, and then won, an approved budget for a new software system. You were delegated the task of organizing, collaborating, and then issuing the request for quote for a new enterprise wide system for your company. The vendor selection was completed, and the contracts are signed. Six months after the software
SUNNYVALE, Ca. - Juniper Networks is updating its Adaptive Threat Management solution to include new capabilities around identity-based security and WAN acceleration, dynamically-provisioned anti-spyware and anti-malware, and identity-based, application-specific enforcement. The networking vendor has been building out its Adaptive Threat Management solution since last summer when it made announcements around high-end routing and switching, but