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Chris Shipley couldn't wait to be disconnected as she headed for a vacation to the tiny island nation of Maldives, a beautiful and surprisingly tech-savvy spot in the Indian Ocean. Much to her chagrin, the author of DEMO Letter wasn't as "off the grid" as...

The State of Wisconsin plans to capture 10 percent of the national renewable energy market by 2030, and biodiesel production will be part of the mix. The state has committed $250,000 to the development of a 62,000-square-foot biodiesel plant in Evansville, but investors have stepped...

Venture investors have been accused of speaking a foreign language, but in this Private Placements column, Matt Storms attempts to take some of the mystery out of capital lingo. The Michael Best and Friedrich attorney has produced a capital “glossary” that serves as a resource...

Berbee Information Networks plans to expand in new facilties that would be added to the New Venture Center on the Fitchburg Technology Campus. If plans are approved by the Fitchburg Common Council, Berbee would be the anchor tenant of a new office building and a...

Summary: Now that his second venture has been sold, Brian Wiegand intends to leave his days as a serial entrepreneur behind and focus on growing Jellyfish.com, a Madison-based shopping search engine. Wiegand's second venture, the digital brand management company NameProtect, has been sold to Corporation...

The integration of information technology into virtually all aspects of the economy is responsible for much of America's economic growth, and a new study confirms what many economists have been saying for years - that computers provide a big boost to productivity. How big? Three...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison would like to see more health research follow a continuum from clinical investigation to actual practice, so it has established a new research entity called the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. The institute, which will partner with the Marshfield Clinic...

IT implementation failures that have dogged business and public sector organizations were the result of flawed processes, but a new approach promises to create greater alignment between business and technology, according to columnist Kirk Knoernschild. In this inaugural edition of Aligning IT, he touts the...

The owner of a Milwaukee software business is expanding his company while shrinking his waistline. John Psuik, founder and CEO of Developer One Software, has entered into an agreement with a European mobile phone provider, and has used his own software applications to drop almost...