An Idaho renewable energy company has landed former Virent Energy Systems executive Eric Apfelbach as its new chief executive officer. Apfelbach, who has been replaced at Virent by Lee Edwards, will join M2E Power, a Boise-based company that is developing energy products with military and...
The state has given a six-figure job to a technology official who was fired five years ago by the Legislature after an audit questioned his management abilities and said he entered into a $1 million annual contract without getting bids. After his firing, Mark Wahl worked...
Mithridion, a Madison biotechnology company that is developing drugs for Alzheimer's disease and other central nervous system disorders, has raised another $2.9 million in venture capital. The latest round, led by Venture Investors, will be used for the clinical development of Mithridion's lead drug candidate,...
More questions have arisen about the viability of the Indian IT firm Satyam Computer Services, which has customers in the United States. In this WTN guest column, Foley & Lardner attorneys Frederic J. (Fritz) Vorlop (Milwaukee), Karl A. Hochkammer (Detroit), and Michael R. Overly (Los...
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. economy lost 524,000 jobs in December, closing out the worst year for job losses since World War II, the Labor Department said Friday. Nearly 2.6 million jobs were lost in 2008, with 1.9 million destroyed in just the past four...
FDA scientists have lobbed a bombshell into the debate over new leadership and reform at the agency after President-elect Obama takes office. According to a letter nine of them wrote to Obama's transition team, sweeping changes are necessary at the agency to banish a corrupt,...
A coalition of Wisconsin economic development groups is advancing ideas to ramp up a program that provides tax credits to investors that commit angel or venture capital funding to qualified Wisconsin companies. The Wisconsin Growth Coalition is calling for an expansion of Act 255, a...
HK Systems, a New Berlin-based developer of automated material handling and supply chain software systems, has elevated Michael L. Gonzalez to the position of chief executive officer. Gonzalez had most recently served as the company's chief operating officer....
Madison, Wis. - For the second consecutive year, Inacom Information Systems was chosen as the Number One IT Consulting Firm and Number One IT Training Company by the 2008 InBusiness Magazine Executive Register. This achievement confirms Inacom's reputation as Madison's preferred technology partner and demonstrates Inacom's...
As EMR adoption gains in U.S. healthcare, internet-based personal health records (PHRs) will influence the healthcare industry, according to a new report from healthcare market research firm Kalorama Information. Patients can obtain information, such as laboratory results, radiology reports, medication lists and culture test results with...