Author: WTN News

To address the lack of rural broadband service in Wisconsin, Gov. Jim Doyle has announced $7.5 million in sales tax exemptions and tax credits for businesses to expand broadband access. It's a move that could provide cell phone and high-speed Internet service to 350,000 Wisconsin...

Thanks to an error in the way it accounted for accounting for the revenue from contracts that contain both a license of software and related maintenance, Merge Healthcare again faces delisting from the NASDAQ Global Market. The company, which has delayed its financial report for...

There are some hard rules for companies facing the software “Build versus Buy” decision, but it's not always a cut-and-dried judgment call. In deciding whether to go “off-the-shelf” or design from within, organizations must ask themselves whether software development is a core competency - if...

Metavante Corp., the financial technology subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley Corp., has appointed two executives to key technology positions. The company, which has a history of promoting technologists, has named Gary Refinski as chief information officer and Dave Fortney as chief technology officer....

These are heady days for the Wisconsin biotech industry, as the recent financial success of TomoTherapy and NimbleGen would attest, and the presence of Mentor Corp. at University Research Park would argue, according to Jim Leonhart, executive vice president of the Wisconsin Biotechnology and Medical...

In trying to make federal wiretapping laws respond to the terrorist threat and take into account modern technology and communications, the Bush Administration has pursued and Congress has enacted a controversial new wiretapping law. While many believe that some foreign surveillance reforms are overdue, WTN...

CIOs who flinch at the mere mention of the word “auditor” must be feeling pretty jumpy in this heavily regulated era. Yet the right mindset and attitude toward compliance can pay off handsomely when it comes to improving information technology governance, and showing upper management...

American companies act like committed socialists when it comes to taxpayers bearing the risk of drug development, but they behave like greedy capitalists when it's time to parcel out the profits, charges John Simpson, stem cell project director for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer...

One of the more productive partnerships in Wisconsin business ended last week when Baird Venture Partners officially exited its investment in NimbleGen Systems through the sale of NimbleGen to Roche. As a result of the Roche acquisition, NimbleGen will return a meaningful percentage of capital...

Merge Healthcare has posponed the announcement of its financial resutls for the first six months of 2007. The Milwaukee-based company, a provider of medical imaging software, has been trying to recover from past financial reporting errors and the financial losses associated with them....