Author: WTN News

Apollo Management and several other investment firms are in talks to convert their debt holdings in Charter Communications, the troubled cable company, into equity stakes, people briefed on the negotiations said Thursday. These firms, which include Oaktree Capital Management and Crestview Partners, would do so as...

President Obama has chosen a campaign advisor and health policy expert, Dr. David Blumenthal, as his national coordinator for health information technology. Dr. Blumenthal has been director of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of health care policy at Harvard....

Facebook directs more of its users to Google than to MSN or Yahoo, and the social networking site has also seen an uplift of 198% in the number of visitors accessing its portal via the search engine, suggesting the relationship between the two is currently...

The Federal Trade Commission recently reported that identity theft complaints increased 20% in 2008 compared to 2007. Reports from Wisconsin residents soared almost 30%. The number one identity theft prevention tip is to protect your Social Security Number.” The FTC, FBI, State of Wisconsin Offices...

For at least one midsize company, the answer is "Yes!" But using Facebook as a business intranet raises some serious questions about security, privacy, and the effect on company culture. bMighty gets an inside peek at Serena Software's social networking experiment....

Two Madison-based biotech executives who steered the successful sale of Third Wave Technologies Inc. will run a publicly traded Massachusetts company that operates a similar business. Kevin T. Conroy will be president and chief executive and Maneesh K. Arora will be senior vice president and chief...

Business process management (BPM) is a systematic approach to improving an organization's business processes. It ideally helps large companies better understand the complex interaction between employees and computer systems and automates mechanical business processes so employees can use their skills in more value-added ways. But...

I.B.M.’s interest in acquiring the server computer maker Sun Microsystems for nearly $7 billion may seem at first to be a reversal of its recent efforts to move away from the hardware business. But analysts say there is more to Sun than servers, which are used...

Milwaukee, WI – Tushaus is pleased to announce their new elevated status to a Gold Channel Partner with Symantec Corporation. The final certifications for the Symantec Gold Partnership status were completed by Tushaus in an effort to strengthen their Technology Risk Management Practice. ...