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Amgen, once a darling of the biotechnology industry, apparently has become a victim of its own success and perhaps an excess of legal maneuvering, according to MedTech Futures columnist Ogan Gurel. The company recently announced the layoff of 2,600 workers, about 14 percent of its...

The recent assertions of John Simpson, stem cell project director for an organization that is challenging stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, ignore some fundamental truths about publicly funded research in Wisconsin, according to columnist Tom Still. In this edition of...

In a market dominated by outsourcing, chief information officers want to know how to generate business value while focusing a minimal amount of attention on non-strategic operations, according to columnist Patrick Gray. In this edition of Breakthrough IT, he provides some CIO guidance for preventing...

Third Wave Technologies is just fine with a recent Food and Drug Administration announcement on relabeling for the blood thinning drugs Coumadin and Wafarin, which have been linked to adverse drug reactions in emergency room settings. The Madison biotechnology company soon will provide an update...

Three Wisconsin metropolitan areas have been ranked in the top 50 cities for business opportunity by Expansion Management magazine, a publication written for executives of companies that are looking to expand or relocate. Madison was ranked 14th on the list, which was topped by Austin,...

Is real broadband connectivity just a fairy tale? Columnist James Carlini poses that question in his most recent edition of Carlini's Comments, and the answer will not please the major telecommunications firms. Carlini, long a proponent of fiber-to-the-home service that provides the highest possible bandwidth,...

Timothy Stultz is leaving Imago Scientific Instruments, a company he has led since 2003, for the California-based Nanometrics, following the layoff of 10 Imago employees. Stultz will remain as chairman and be replaced as CEO by Tom Kelly, who founded the company and has...