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Strong Quarterly Revenue; Positive Cash Flow; Backlog of $176 Million MADISON - TomoTherapy Incorporated, producer of the Hi·Art® treatment system for advanced radiation therapy, today released financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2008. Fourth Quarter Results The company reported fourth quarter 2008 revenue of $86.3...

MARSHFIELD, WI – The Marshfield Clinic will roll out new business intelligence software to boost operations not only in the business centers, but also to improve care with better data. The clinic employs 792 physicians in 80 medical specialties and subspecialties at more than 40 centers...

One success of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Reaccreditation Project gave rise to an even bigger challenge: Namely, what to make of tens of thousands of open-ended observations about the university's future? One clever software solution, developed by UW-Madison math graduate student Erik Andrejko, may end...

The Wisconsin Biotechnology & Medical Device Association will now be BioForward. A move that according to Laura Strong, Ph.D., president of BioForward's board of directors, more accurately reflects the group's efforts to create investment and partnering opportunities, attract and retain the best talent, and...

WASHINGTON — To rally support for his administration’s economic recovery bill recently, President Obama invited about a dozen chief executives, seven of them from technology and energy companies, to the Oval Office. Some of their industries’ top lobbyists, meanwhile, gathered in another office where Jason Furman,...

One of the very first questions that many entrepreneurs and start-ups ask is: what form should my company take? This is an obvious candidate for an “early” question, since forming your company is one of the earliest “early-stage” things you will do. Prior columns have...

Taking a chemical approach, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a two-step method to convert the cellulose in raw biomass into a promising biofuel. The process, which is described in the Wednesday, Feb. 11 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society,...

Spending Wisconsin's share of the $800-million-plus economic stimulus package is shaping up to be heavy lifting. It appears the longer Congress debates how, where and how much to spend on blunting the recession, the less policymakers in individual states such as Wisconsin know exactly what to...