Madison Area Technical College will host a technology experience for girls June 26-28. Forty-five girls in grades six through nine are expected to attend the event, which is sponsored by area technology companies. ...
The Upper Midwest, led by Chicago, can forget about hosting the Olympic Games if the region insists on being backward when it comes to high-speed broadband deployment, warns columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he points out that troubled municipal Wi-Fi projects,...
In 20 years, we might wonder what all the fuss was about with the first steps of electronic patient data exchange, but now it's merely full of promise and, in the view of some, peril. Nevertheless, Milwaukee has taken a step toward electronic data exchange...
Madison is one of 13 designated “Solar America Cities” under a $60 million solar energy program unveiled by the United States Department of Energy. Madison and the other “solar cities” will share $2.5 million in funding as part of an effort to increase the use...
An Australian climate change agency has awarded a Madison energy business with a $275,000 grant to continue development of technologies that limit greenhouse gas emissions. The New South Wales Department of Environment and Climate Change awarded the technology climate action grant to BEST Energies for...
Angel investments in early-stage Wisconsin companies topped $100 million last year, but the average size of the Wisconsin angel deal - $2.2 million - has at least one observer wondering if some angels are taking the place of venture investors in follow-up rounds. Just over...
The heartbeat of strong internal controls is not the enabling IT, notes columnist Ron Kral, but investing in your people and culture. In this edition of Boardroom Perspectives, he explains why the key to reducing compliance costs associated with Sarbanes Oxley lies in human resources. ...
The recent controversy over GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia has once again put the Food & Drug Administration in Congressional crosshairs. In Part I of a MedTech Futures column on the FDA approval process, Dr. Ogan Gurel suggests that safety-minded FDA employees be taken more seriously. ...
Scolding Republican critics of his biofuels program, Gov. Jim Doyle has urged the Legislature to advance a proposal to grant $30 million in state funds to companies that develop alternative energy. The proposal is stalled in the Legislature's Joint Committee on Finance. ...
Michael Rosen isn't often in book review mode, but he's come across a business book that's not only too good to put down, but provides a roadmap for the future of American biotech and healthcare. In this edition of Yer Biotech Blues, he praises author...