According to first quarter federal reports, Google participated in lobbying efforts aimed at allowing the sale of electronic medical records in the economic stimulus legislation. This contradicts the Internet giant's earlier response to Consumer Watchdog, a California-based, non-profit consumer education and advocacy organization, that their claims...
A guaranteed way to increase your company's sales is to have a system in place to manage your sales activities. Having a custom relationship management (CRM) system that is easy and gets used by the sales team is a great step towards that goal. Businesses are...
The U.S. Senate has approved the nomination of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. The 65-31 vote means all members of President Obama's cabinet now are in place. Sebelius has much on her plate as HHS, still without...
While small businesses can be quite different from one another there is commonality in the steps they go through to launch a successful start-up. A robust business start will follow this process to get through the first weeks and months on a solid footing. Read full...
eBay decides to spin off VOIP company Skype, with which it has a decidedly uneven relationship. An IPO is planned for the first half of 2010, although eBay says the specific timing of the IPO will be based on market conditions. Read full article>>...
Sustainability will be the focus of the eighth annual International Bioethics Forum to be held in Madison this Thursday and Friday, April 23 and 24. The forum, sponsored jointly by the BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute (BTCI), Promega Corp. and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, is...
Oracle Corp. may have decided to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. because it is worth far more to the database market leader than it was to IBM. It's not a question of the price — at $7.4 billion, Oracle didn't agree to pay much more than...
There's a new CTO in town. President Obama selected Aneesh Paul Chopra, Virginia's secretary of technology, to serve as the country's chief technology officer (CTO). "In this role, Aneesh will promote technological innovation to help achieve our most urgent priorities – from creating jobs and reducing health...
Three examples of Wisconsin’s growing cluster of cancer drug development and treatment companies will be featured at the Tuesday, April 28 luncheon meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network in Madison. A number of Madison-area companies, as well as related research institutions, are working on cancer...
The number, scale and sophistication of data breaches fueled by hackers last year is rekindling the debate over the efficacy of the credit card industry's security standards for safeguarding customer data. All merchants that handle credit and debit card data are required to show that they...