When it comes to economic development in Dane County, Madison Gas & Electric has followed a small-market blueprint over the last 20 years as it works to nurture entrepreneurial activity in the hope that today’s prospects turn into tomorrow’s major league employers....
Eau Claire, Wis. — A digital welding simulator that could also help expand the use of virtual reality in several educational programs was demonstrated on Wednesday at Chippewa Valley Technical College....
Milwaukee, Wis. — Now that Metavante Corporation has completed its acquisition of AdminniSource, a healthcare payments distribution firm, the company says it is expanding its Healthcare Payments Solutions division and hiring a new president....
Madison, Wis. — TDS Telecom's James Barr III, 65, is retiring as president and CEO of the company at the end of 2006 after 17 years in the role, the company said on Tuesday....
Eau Claire, Wis. — The Eau Claire Area Economic Development Corporation's annual business-plan contest is starting up again, offering cash awards of up to $10,000 to the best business ideas from Eau Claire County....
Milwaukee, Wis. — President George Bush today spoke of energy during a visit to Wisconsin, but rather than concentrate on traditional energy resources, his remarks were directed toward new methods of treating what he called the nation's addiction to foreign oil....
Researchers at Northwestern University have announced that a type of atom probe developed by Madison-based Imago Scientific allowed them to produce data on the arrangement of individual gold atoms they couldn't have gotten otherwise....
Madison, Wis. — Ren-He Xu, the WiCell Institute's first employee six years ago after James Thomson made his stem-cell breakthrough, has been named director of the University of Connecticut's new human embryonic stem-cell lab....
Now halfway through its study of Wisconsin public schools, a 26-member task force led by UW-Madison Professor Allen Odden is trying to live up to its promise to scrutinize current spending levels and to adjust them up, down – or even out – based on...
California clearly has the lion's share of VC investment money in the U.S. with a staggering 47 percent of all VC investment which has increased from 43 percent since 2003. The Midwest, with its ups and downs, receives, with 8 states, less than 5 percent....