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A new online company that is seeking to change the way buyers and sellers connect online has received an impressive $5 million in venture capital from two private equity firms. In a move that could provide more momentum to Wisconsin's high-tech sector, Jellyfish.com plans to...

Monica Doss remembers the early 1980s very well. With $35,000 in the bank and virtually no venture investment in North Carolina, the Council for Economic Development began to reshape the entrepreneurial culture of an entire state, one that now is represented by the famed Research...

Johnson Controls, Inc., has struck a preliminary deal to buy the automotive battery business of Fiamm, a global automotive components manufacturer. If approved, the deal will allow Johnson Controls to expand its automotive aftermarket presence in fast-growing Eastern European nations....

Imago Scientific Instruments has sold one of its atom probe microscopes to Iowa State University's College of Engineering for use later this fall. According to the company, the microscope could lead to advances in energy, healthcare, and anti-terrorism efforts....

TeraMedica Healthcare Technology, a Milwaukee-based medical informatics company, has partnered with the University of California-Davis Cancer Center to install an information manager with oncology-specific electronic medical record technology. As part of the deal, UC-Davis will provide expertise for TeraMedica's Oncology Advisory Board....

If you're like a lot of technology and life-science executives, you wonder where your next venture round will come from, and who is competing for those same dollars. If you're not familiar with investors, Private Placements columnist Matt Storms suggests you consider intermediaries known as...

When it comes to network security, many business executives are talking a good game, but too few actually are walking the walk, according to a panel of technology executives. They may want to entertain their next move, however, because security neglect is likely to be...

Wisconsin may never be Silicon Valley when it comes to entrepreneurial churn, but it has the capacity to become less risk averse. That was one of several messages to come out of the ninth annual E-Business Best Practices and Emerging Technologies Conference....

Madison's bioscience business community is widely known as one of the premier locations for research collaboration and growth, but the arrival of Northwestern University's Caden Biosciences could be a sign that Madison has reached a "critical mass" of talent and technological resources....