The United States Department of Energy has announced $200 million in new financing for cellulosic biomass projects, and Wisconsin applicants must submit a letter of intent by May 29. According to attorney Greg Lynch, the funding opportunity is open to applicants with projects that may...
Industry collabortions are part of the business plan of Madison's Virent Energy Systems, and the company has entered into another joint agreement to develop its platform technology for hydrogen production. Virent and Shell Hydrogen, a subsidiary of Shell Oil Co., have announced a five-year agreement...
Consistent entrepreneurial growth continues in the United States, but subtle demographic shifts continue to change the face of the American entrepreneur, according to the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity. Those shifts are occurring in the ethnic make-up of America's entrepreneurs, as Asians, Latinos, and immigrants...
MailFoundry, a Green Bay based anti-spam solution provider, has launched an anti spam appliance that can handle more than 100,000 users and 20 million e-mails per day. The filter is designed to be scalable and combat increasing threats from spam, phishing attacks, and viruses....
Research into brain disease that is being led by principal investigator Jeannette Vasquez Vivar, assistant professor of biophysics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, will be supported by a $377,000 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke....
Rockwell Automation, a provider of industrial automation control and information solutions, has reached an agreement to acquire Industrial Control Services Group Ltd., a British industrial controls company, for $218 million. The British firm is considered an important strategic fit for Rockwell's process-control and safety-solutions businesses....
With its reach extending farther across the globe, TomoTherapy is opening an international Technical Training Center in Madison. The center will be used to train employees to maintain Hi-Art radiation therapy systems that are sold around the world....
Women got the right to vote in 1920, the right to secure business credit in their own name in 1974, and the determination to develop their businesses into $1 million enterprises with the onset of Make Mine A Million. During the program's recent Wisconsin conference,...
The markets are deciding now who will lead the 21st century energy parade, but based on the Legislature's lack of support for Gov. Doyle's renewable energy program, Wisconsin's interest in marching is still unclear, writes Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still. In the words of colorful...
A recent Internal Revenue Service ruling is likely to accelerate the national pace of electronic medical record and healthcare IT adoption at non-profit and not-for-profit facilities. Wisconsin non profits, however, have been moving ahead with EMR and healthcare IT adoption despite national uncertainly about the...