Last year, Scott Allocco spent 12 hours sitting on a downtown Baltimore sidewalk, waiting to turn in his application to get a tax credit for the angel investors who'd promised to give money to his cancer diagnostics company, BioMarker Strategies. He was the third company...
“They do not have anything that could reach here, or do they?” questions James Carlini. The threat of nuclear bombs is such a remote possibility today that no one really thinks about it anymore. Or do they? According to the nuke-o-meter there are 8187...
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released a series of new reports on the health care status quo that highlight the urgent need for health reform across the nation. The new reports are available at www.HealthReform.gov and include information on health care cost and quality in...
Health care provider Kaiser Permanente has one foot in the future as it works to transform the health care industry with technology. At the Kaiser Permanente Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center in San Leandro, Calif., state-of-the-art gadget testing and innovation is happening throughout...
President Obama wants your advice on how the government should keep its secrets. A month ago, he issued a memorandum directing national security advisers to recommend ways to improve the rules by which records are classified and later opened to the public. Starting Monday, tech-savvy citizens...
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — General Electric Co. said Friday it will build a $100 million manufacturing technology center in Michigan that will eventually employ about 1,200 workers. The Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center will include a GE research and development facility with scientists and engineers who...
A bill in the U.S. Senate that would allow President Barack Obama to shut down parts of the Internet during a cybersecurity crisis will likely be rewritten and needs input from private businesses, said a congressional staff member associated with the legislation. The Cybersecurity Act...
Can new technology initiatives help pull Wall Street out of the danger zone? A new survey released by IBM and Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) finds that IT budgets are tight on Wall Street, but things are loosening up, and there’s going to...
Wisconsin was recently ranked number one in the nation for health care quality by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Wisconsin had the top overall health care quality score among all 50 states based on measures that AHRQ used to evaluate health...
Nowhere in the United States is manufacturing a stronger industry than in Wisconsin. That's why Wisconsin should invest in education, research and technology. The conclusion may appear odd. After all, if the state is to capitalize on manufacturing, why make investments usually associated with ivory towers and...