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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,...

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 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. ...