Debbie Crave, vice president at Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese, has received the highest award conferred by the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. The award was presented at a banquet and ceremony at UW-Madison by College Dean and Director Molly Jahn. ...
What is the CIO's role in driving social media into organizations? Listening to many of our clients it seems that it is often that of "social police" - IT gets asked by legal to block any and all social media applications. While in some cases...
It's partly because of the European Union's deadly combination of ignorance and arrogance, and partly because Ellison's already invested so much time and money, and partly because he wants Sun before it must shed several thousand more jobs due to the EU's dithering. But the...
Three very young companies - all from outside Wisconsin - won the Elevator Pitch Olympics in Madison on Wednesday. All three said they would consider moving to the state, said Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council, which organized the contest. The event gets its...
The post-industrial evolution of the U.S. economy has aroused multibillion-dollar questions over what kinds of inventions deserve patent protection, and on Monday the Supreme Court joined the muddle over whether new ideas and strategies do. The courts and U.S. law have long held that the inventors...
Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday that it had reached an agreement to acquire 3Com, a provider of computer network switching and routing equipment, for $2.7 billion in deal that will help improve H.P.’s business in China and expand its network gear business. With the purchase, H.P. is planning...
API Healthcare has signed an agreement with Logicalis, a provider of integrated information and communications technology solutions, to offer remote hosting services to its clients. Remote hosting enables healthcare organizations to maintain internal control of their existing IT investments and infrastructure while outsourcing routine...
The BioPharma Management Technologies Division of Wound Management Technologies, Inc., (WNDM) will search for partners to aid in leveraging its existing technology and infrastructure to develop opportunities within the International Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering fields. "Some of the most important developments in biotechnology and medical...
Entrepreneurship programs at UW–Madison are supporting innovative thinking and actions. The Wiscontrepreneur program promotes the creation of new businesses and socially beneficial organizations; the Student Venture Seed Grant Program backs up that encouragement with real money; programs at the Wisconsin School of Business rank among the...
While waiting for my annual physical, I enrolled in a research study. (About every other year, I participate in a research study. Two years ago, a sleep apnea study involved me spending the night in an iron lung with electrodes in my mouth and all...