Author: WTN News

Wayne Fromm spent roughly a decade hustling to get his camera monopod off the ground. But, the inventor says, he “met resistance.” People just didn’t get the concept of using an extendible pole to shoot photos of themselves. They do now. Last holiday season, shoppers scooped...

A tech start-up called DotCloud was on its last legs in 2012. Now called Docker, its software has been downloaded 70 million times. “It’s exhilarating and it’s frightening,” said Benjamin Golub, Docker’s chief executive. “We are absolutely punching way above our weight class.” Docker is at the...

It's hard to find someone who cares more about the economic vibrancy of the Milwaukee area than Tom Schuster, a seasoned corporate executive and turnaround expert who is now the managing general partner for the Wisconsin Super Angel Fund. That doesn't mean Schuster is above expressing...

One school of thought suggests that interoperability between electronic health records systems is not a technological problem, rather it’s a business model and political matter. Regardless, it remains a monster problem that many parties are working to solve, from high-powered policymakers to high-tech entrepreneurs....

"The Web Is Broken!" has become a familiar theme, with apps generally called out as the bogeyman. We're in love with the convenience of apps, spending dramatically more time with apps than our web browser on phones. This won't be without consequence. As the Wall...

Lockheed Martin made several forays into healthcare last year, buying small, specialized companies. But the defense giant’s latest move in this space is its most personal yet. Lockheed and San Diego company Illumina are teaming up to study the human genome — the stuff that makes you...

Heartland, one of the largest retail payment processors in the U.S., has "total confidence" in E3 encryption and so is getting into the breach insurance business. Heartland Payment Systems is so confident in the security of its payment processing technology that, on Jan. 12, it announced...

Meaningful use. Two words of towering importance that now remind every hospital administrator, CFO and medical group CEO that they must comply with newly promulgated regulations from federal HIPAA and HITECH legislation., or risk forfeiting funds previously received from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid...

Wellbe, a Madison, WI-based provider of software that helps guide patients through medical treatments and surgeries, has raised $2.4 million from investors, the company announced today. Wellbe has now snagged about $4 million from investors since CEO James Dias co-founded the company in 2008. Investors in...

Entrepreneurs live in the future. If you expect to innovate and grow, you have to. But if you're growing a business, the vast majority of your time is likely spent on countless tedious tasks in the present. So, how do you keep your eye on...