In this edition of Yer Biotech Blues, columnist Michael Rosen, just back from his annual trip to the Bio-Japan Conference, compares certain healthcare metrics of the United States and Japan. While Japan's per capita healthcare costs are much lower than America's, the Land of...
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Citing the integration of information technology and building management, Milwaukee's Johnson Controls has acquired Gridlogix, a St. Louis-based company that develops building management software. With the acquisition, Johnson Controls says it can minimize the impact of high energy prices for larger global customers. ...
Investors from the Midwest's IQ corridor will hear from about 40 high-tech Wisconsin companies at the 2008 Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium in Madison. The annual symposium will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 5 and 6, at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center,...
State government has been the focal point when it comes to stopping the brain drain - the migration of young professionals out of Wisconsin. But local governments might have more to do with keeping "YPs" in Wisconsin, according to columnist Joe Vanden Plas. In this...
Software-Intensive Businesses (SIBs) spend money to create and operate differentiating software applications, but sometimes complexity, layered on top of mistaken beliefs, gets in the way, notes columnist and software developer Robert Merrill. In this WTN Guest Column, Merrill explores how to respond effectively when things...
Orlando, Fla. — Gartner, Inc. analysts have highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations. The analysts presented their findings during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, being held here through October 16. Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for...
Kohler Co.'s Davor Grgic has plenty to offer in terms of thought leadership on enterprise resource planning, which has helped put the global manufacturer of kitchen and bath products in a position to navigate choppy economic waters (despite 50 new layoffs) and avoid drastic changes...
The American technology industry added nearly 80,000 jobs in the first seven months of 2008 amid the economic downturn, but that represented a slower pace than the previous year. Given the intensifying economic slowdown this fall and current disruption in the financial markets, AeA believes...
The ExchangeHut Network, a Madison-based online ticket exchange, has been acquired by CDI America to expand the service to a wider network of college campuses. The ticketing service, launched in 2005 by three UW-Madison students, established a market to allow student buyers to obtain tickets...