The Satyam scandal continues to reverberate, with a host of competing companies aiming to pick up some U.S. business and some big firms facing questions about why they did business with the Indian outsourcer. First, we should note that Satyam's ADR traded on the Nasdaq. As...
From the dangers of social networks to the latest offerings in Unified Communications, we keep you up to date on what you need to know about the benefits and pitfalls of Web 2.0. Read more...
The Washington D.C. Department of Health has tapped a Milwaukee-based provider of healthcare IT solutions to ensure that any medical emergencies are handled smoothly during today's Presidential Inauguration. EMSystems has provided emergency communication, bed availability and patient tracking solutions and staff to help D.C. officials manage...
Friday is becoming a dreaded day at most companies. What used to be seen as the start of the weekend is now the day most employees are advised they no longer have a job. Since the beginning of the year, IT vendors have slashed more than...
PhysioGenix Inc., which sells pre-clinical services to drug companies, said it plans to spin off a subsidiary that will attempt to create drugs out of compounds developed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The spinoff will make a separate company of Neuro Amp LLC, which has an...
By John Schmid of the Journal Sentinel GE Healthcare Ltd. will cut about 150 unionized jobs in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties by March, the company said Friday. The major Wisconsin manufacturing employer also will eliminate jobs in Wisconsin that extend beyond its union work force. In all...
The House Appropriations Committee just approved financing up to $6 billion to develop broadband networks in rural America. "For every dollar invested in broadband, the economy sees a 10-fold return on that investment," the Committee preached. Read more...
Using cancer cells from an ovarian cancer patient and human embryonic stem cells, Israeli researchers have created a cancerous tumor in a mouse that mimics the way the tumor would develop in the patient's body. The result is a pre-clinical experimental model for cancer research...
By John Schmid GE Healthcare, Ltd. is merging its two major divisions in metro Milwaukee - the diagnostic-imaging business in Waukesha and the clinical systems unit in Wauwatosa - under a broad reorganization of the billion-a-year medical systems and biosciences company. Although the "organizational redesign" coincides with...
The continued release of negative economic data does not preclude the completion of the bottoming process and the emergence of a cyclical bull market in the first half of the year. In fact, the forward-looking nature of the stock market and the necessary lag with which...