Author: WTN News

A new service that blends television and high-speed Internet continues to cover more areas of Wisconsin as AT&T launches its U-Verse service in several northeastern Wisconsin communities. The IPTV-based service, which is made possible in part by a new state video competition law, already has...

GWC Technologies and the Wisconsin Alumni Research foundation have reached an agreement to license a new technology that promises more robust data generation in an area that some believe is most likely to produce the next generation of disease-fighting therapies - protein analysis. The company...

Spurring more venture capital investment is considered essential to the state's economic growth, which is the justification for capital formation programs like the Act 255 investor tax credit program. The Wisconsin Department of Commerce has qualified two more technology companies, Perscitus Biosciences of Madison...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued re-examination certificates for two stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The action concludes the re-exam for University of Wisconsin Madison's most important embryonic stem cell discoveries. The ruling on these patents cannot...

Count State Senator Pat Kreitlow as the latest to call for approval of venture capital expansion bills introduced in the Wisconsin Legislature. Kreitlow, a Chippewa Falls Democrat, has called for passage of legislation to expand tax credits and establish targeted tax exemptions as a way...

A depressingly small percentage - 17 percent to be precise - of surveyed physicians are using ambulatory electronic health records, which is surprising when you consider the U.S. devotes 16 percent of its national wealth to healthcare, says columnist and physician Barry Chaiken. In...

Milwaukee businesses continually miss out on the new waves of technological change that move through the American economy, according to Mason Wells' John Byrnes. But by focusing attention on the "grand challenge" problems in local industries, and by providing collaboration tools to encourage more interdisciplinary...

A stem cell company co-founded by stem cell pioneer James Thomson has been named one of the nation's top 15 biotechnology companies by FierceBiotech, an online publication covering the biotech industry. Cellular Dynamics was cited for its work to give drug developers an earlier, more...

The completion of a business acquisition will enable MeVis Medical Solutions in Pewaukee to begin shipping its first medical imaging product, according to a report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. MeVis, a subsidiary of a German company of the same name, has completed its purchase...