Author: WTN News

With the job market having radically changed for many, customary practices are no longer customary, observes columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he explains why giving two-week's notice is no longer a customary practice, and why employers have nobody to blame but...

Two consumer advocacy groups that support rejection of stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation have filed formal comments saying that attempts to amend the patents should not save them from being overturned. In comments submitted last week, the Foundation for Taxpayer...

More young people have been bitten by the entrepreneurial bug than we think, but we don't always do enough to give them the tools they need to succeed, according to Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still. Case in point is Kevin Plank, the former University of...

Three more Wisconsin technology companies have been qualified under the Act 255 angel and venture investment tax credit program. Investors who commit angel or venture capital to either Windlift, LLC, Centrose, LLC, or SymbiontWeb, Inc., will be eligible to receive the tax credits....

The Milwaukee-based Fiserv has agreed to sell nearly all of its healthcare businesses to UnitedHealthcare for $775 million in cash. The divestiture will increase Fiserv's focus on the financial services industry, and establish UnitedHealthcare in the market for customized benefit services. ...

The NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel has granted Merge Healthcare more time to regain compliance with its financial reporting. The panel has informed the Milwaukee medical software developer that it has until Jan. 29, 2008, to complete restated financial reports or face delisting. ...

Despite an eighth consecutive quarter of clinical revenue growth, Third Wave Technologies reported a wider quarterly loss based on high costs for clinical trials and ongoing patent litigation costs. One hopeful sign continues to be a growing customer base, which now includes more than 200...