Following a more than one-year slide, information technology growth is starting to appear in small- to medium-sized businesses. According to the April CDW IT Monitor, more IT decision makers think they'll spend money in the next six months. While confidence remains flat, small businesses indicated...
Wisconsin State Sen. Ted Kanavas (R-Brookfield) last year championed the Wisconsin Film Tax Credit now under consideration for elimination in the biennial budget now winding its way through the state's Joint Committee on Finance. Kanavas sat down with Wisconsin Technology Network recently to discuss his...
This recession has spared no group of workers when it comes to losing jobs, with white-collar workers who seemed nearly immune to past economic downturns standing in unemployment lines with their blue-collar counterparts. Still, there's a clear “education gap” in the national jobless statistics - and...
The United Nations on Tuesday will designate Milwaukee as a U.N. Global Compact City, making it one of 13 such cities worldwide, in a move that will help the region promote its image abroad as an international hub of water technology....
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As the economy continues to weaken, public CIOs find themselves increasingly involved with economic development. The latest to join this small but influential group of government IT leaders is Colorado CIO Michael Locatis. Last week, Locatis joined Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter on a two-day economic...
By now, many employees are uncomfortably aware that their every keystroke at work, from email on office computers to text messages on company phones, can be monitored legally by their employers. What employees typically don't expect is for the company to spy on them while...
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...
Roche Madison Inc. opened its facility in University Research Park today. The building contains chemistry and biology labs for work with the company's global RNA Therapeutics group, which focuses on the discovery and development of innovative nucleic acid based technologies. The Madison division now employs...
Filament Games is a small Madison firm that wants to be the developer of the "Citizen Cane" of educational games. But these goals may be thwarted, or at least stifled, company founders Dan White and Dan Norton said, if Wisconsin does away with the one-year-old...