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Promega Corp. has developed an advanced detection system designed to help scientists to improve lab performance. The Madison-based company, which has developed more than 2,000 research products for scientists, said the upgraded tool allows scientists to run experiments on their schedule and then transfer data...

EDUCAUSE's latest White Paper on America's lack of broadband does not shed light on the real issues, argues James Carlini, who can safely be described as a champion for the highest possible broadband speeds. As he notes in this edition of Carlini's Comments, most state...

Centrose, a Madison-based drug discovery company, has announced that it raised $1.3 million in funding from Pavek Investments, a Milwaukee firm known for real estate investments. The funding comes from a pool of about 25 investors cobbled together by the Glendale-based firm....

The Illinois-based First United Bank will expand its relationship with Metavante and its suite of banking software. The bank, which already relies on Metavante for retail PIN-debit and ATM-card access, will now turn to the Milwaukee-based company for core banking software and payment solutions. ...

Dave Lundal has an Epic project on his mind, and the fact that he's not a control freak is a great help. As vice president and regional CIO of SSM Health Care of Wisconsin, Lundal has by choice and necessity taken a collaborative approach to...

Depending on your perspective, the IT worker shortage is either a fact that is complicating life for technology directors, or a fiction born out of an unwillingness of companies to pay technology workers what they earned before the tech bubble burst. In any event, Wausau...

The sentiment that our healthcare system is “broken” appears to be universally shared, at least on the Democratic side of the aisle, notes columnist Ogan Gurel. In this editon of Med Tech Futures, Dr. Gurel explains why the health insurance system actually is more logical...

New York-based ProHEALTH Care Associates has invested $4.4 million in GE Healthcare's Centricity, the company's electronic medical record system, and other healthcare information technology. GE Healthcare, a $17 billion unit of General Electric Co., will provide its EMR to a healthcare organization that serves 750,000...

The joke about football is that it features the two most disliked aspects of modern life - violence and committee meetings. In this edition of Contemporary Working, Melanie Holmes, who taped the Super Bowl so she could fast-forward to the commercials, knows that just like...