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AWR Corp., a California-based developer of high-frequency electronic design automation, has acquired the Mequon software firm Simulation Technology and Applied Research. AWR said it would retain the Simulation Technology operations in Wisconsin under company founder John DeFord. ...

PhysioGenix Inc., which sells pre-clinical services to drug companies, said it plans to spin off a subsidiary that will attempt to create drugs out of compounds developed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The spinoff will make a separate company of Neuro Amp LLC, which has an...

Infrastructure projects are nice, but they are no substitute for real, sustained job creation, notes columnist Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, Still hopes the Powers that Be remember this as they craft the economic stimulus bill, which should reauthorize the federal Small...

With a seemingly endless stream of job losses, economic survival is on everyone's mind. Accelerate Madison will address the subject from a technology standpoint with a Jan. 22 luncheon program titled “Survival Toolkit for IT Enterprises: Working Smarter in a Challenging Economy.” Panlestists include Rimas...

By John Schmid of the Journal Sentinel GE Healthcare Ltd. will cut about 150 unionized jobs in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties by March, the company said Friday. The major Wisconsin manufacturing employer also will eliminate jobs in Wisconsin that extend beyond its union work force. In all...

Marquette University and UW-Milwaukee have teamed up to license a compound for the treatment for schizophrenia to Promentis Pharmaceuticals, a start-up pharmaceutical company. Promentis was founded by Marquette professors David Baker and John Mantsch, and is managed with the help of with UWM chemistry professor...

If you're suddenly unemployed and thinking about starting your own business, your technology set-up is one of your most important considerations. In this WTN guest column, Jerry Norton of Candela Solutions, who usually writes about business accounting, wears the hat of technology consumer as he...

Using cancer cells from an ovarian cancer patient and human embryonic stem cells, Israeli researchers have created a cancerous tumor in a mouse that mimics the way the tumor would develop in the patient's body. The result is a pre-clinical experimental model for cancer research...

By John Schmid GE Healthcare, Ltd. is merging its two major divisions in metro Milwaukee - the diagnostic-imaging business in Waukesha and the clinical systems unit in Wauwatosa - under a broad reorganization of the billion-a-year medical systems and biosciences company. Although the "organizational redesign" coincides with...