Author: WTN News

IBM is moving into cloud patents, but that's not necessarily going to upset established providers. In a pinch, they could end up as partners. IBM acquires patents at a prodigious rate and uses them to ward off challenges by rivals and patent trolls. It has been...

Today at the White House’s first Demo Day, President Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president, spoke with various startups about their founding stories. This comes a little over a month after SCOTUS legalized same-sex marriage across the nation. Progress is underway, undoubtedly....

Promega Corp., one of the Madison area’s most successful, homegrown and fiercely independent biotechnology companies, is in the midst of a hostile takeover attempt by two shareholders who want to buy a majority of shares and boot Promega’s founder and CEO Bill Linton....

Sales plans should motivate and inspire people to stretch, achieve, and grow but these 5 classic blunders will do just the opposite. It doesn't matter what business you're in, sales is the single most important part of how you will grow. Yet, far too many founders...

After Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic in 1927, a company called Seaboard Air Line Railroad attracted an unusual amount of attention from investors who thought it was in the aviation business. The name actually was a reference to an old railroading term and had nothing...

The service would transcribe incoming voicemail into messages for easier consumption. Voicemail is a pain in the neck, and Apple has decided to do something about it. The company is testing a new way to transcribe spoken messages and send the contents to iPhone owners via...