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If you want to know what it takes to survive for 20 years in the brutal world of technology, a Wisconsin-based company provides a constantly-changing blueprint. Paragon Development Systems has evolved from a memory chip broker to a provider of virtual infrastructures with an agile...

Attention any Wisconsin business that has an office or otherwise does business in the Windy City: If you think Milwaukee is the only place that is having trouble getting its Wi-Fi act together, check out Chicago. Columnist James Carlini explains why Chi-Town needs a wireless...

Mirus Bio Corp., a biopharmaceutical firm operating from the University Research Park, has developed a new method to use its DNA and RNA injection technology to target gene activity. The new technique could make analyzing gene function in vivo more efficient and affordable for researchers,...

Until recently, online communities have operated as kind of an inner sanctum, but a former University of Wisconsin computer science professor has joined Yahoo in an attempt to leverage such community interaction into business opportunities. Raghu Ramakrishnan, who is forming a working group to explore...

DEMO columnist Chris Shipley enjoys a little Java in the morning, the afternoon, and any other time the Web development platform enables her organization to be part of the World Wide Web. In this edition of DEMO Letter, she toasts the virtues of this technological...

Platypus Technologies, LLC, a life sciences and nanotechnology company operating in suburban Madison, has been awarded a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant. The award, which is worth $450,000, will be used to develop new life science research tools....

The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) has recognized the Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation (CATI) for its technology-based economic development programs. CATI, based in Racine, has developed a technology transfer model to help entrepreneurs grow their business. ...

In a new study by the Milken Institute, the University of Wisconsin System was ranked 9th in number and quality of biotechnology patents, but well behind several Big Ten campuses in its ability to transfer the intellectual property into commercial uses....

Throwing down the gauntlet in the heat of the election season, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle is challenging the Wisconsin Legislature to approve $2.5 in spending for the Biomedial Technology Alliance. Additional funding for the alliance, a group of southeastern Wisconsin colleges and universities interested in...

The national angel investment market showed continued signs of growth in the first six months of 2006, as angels made $12.7 billion in investments. The Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire, which reported the results, said healthcare, software, and biotech continued...