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Despite all the happy talk about the importance of work-life balance and the benefits of flexible working, traditional notions of 14-hour work days remain firmly entrenched, according to Next Generation columnist Tony DiRomualdo. All the more reason why Best Buy's unlikely yet successful foray into...

With the United States in the early stages of another major economic transformation, where does Wisconsin rank among the 50 states in the so-called "New Economy?" Although Wisconsin was in the upper half of states in several key categories, it ranked 30th overall in the...

In its latest response to a patent infringement suit regarding a diagnostic test for the human papilloma virus, Third Wave Technologies is accusing its accuser of anti-trust activity. The dispute between Third Wave and Digene Corp. is playing itself out in a Wisconsin courtroom....

“We can now declare with certainty that technology has become pervasive,” says John Swainson, president and CEO of CA, Inc., and managing information technology risks associated with that pervasiveness is imperative for IT leaders. If they fail to deal with the quantum leaps in scale...

Verizon Wireless has become the latest vendor to introduce faster broadband service in Wisconsin. With the new service, Verizon said customers in Greater Milwaukee and Madison and the Fox Valley should be able to upload files five to six times faster. ...

Yet another prominent executive has issued a wake-up call for Milwaukee to get its educational act together so that its residents can compete in the emerging knowledge economy. This time, notes Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still, it's Northwestern Mutual Life's Ed Zore that is trying...

Labels have meaning, particularly when entrepreneurs are making the key decisions of whether and when to add their first employees. In Part I of their look at the considerations involved with classifying workers as employees or independent contractors, Early Stage columnist Joe Boucher and legal...