Visitors at Blackhawk Technical College's main campus south of Janesville notice one thing almost immediately as they walk its hallways: All of the classrooms are packed with students. Much like other Wisconsin Technical College System campuses during this recession, Blackhawk is enrolling a surge of...
The Wisconsin Technology Council has recommended that state business leaders, educators and policy leaders embrace targeted efforts to advance science, technology, engineering and math education. A report released Tuesday, Educating a Tech-Savvy Workforce in Wisconsin, caps a series of town hall-style meetings produced by the...
Over the past few months, more and more start-up entrepreneurs and small business clients have been struggling to get up and running or make ends meet. Obviously, the current economy is the main catalyst for most of these struggles. However, another commonly cited reason for...
After hearing rumors that the marketing and communications department that she worked in at the EMD Chemicals Inc. facility in Madison would be relocated to New Jersey, Karren Jeske noticed a job posting made by one of her connections on LinkedIn. Jeske applied for the...
Consulting firm BearingPoint may have filed for Chapter 11 protection, but its CIO has a plan for making sure his top workers don’t flee. In good times, retaining top IT talent is a top priority for CIOs. Now, in the recession, many IT leaders are...
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...
Mention Hollywood and politics in the same sentence and most people envision liberal screen stars lining up on Rodeo Drive to save a whale, rescue a polar bear or hug a Democrat. That stereotype is flipped in Wisconsin these days, where a conservative Republican state senator...
Wisconsin’s growing entertainment software industry will be showcased from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Thursday at Madison's Raven Software. The Game On! event is part of an effort to save the state's one-year-old film incentive program by a coalition including Film Wisconsin, Arts Wisconsin and...
The number of filers for first-time unemployment claims fell last week, though they remain at very high levels. Tom Koulopoulos, author of "The Innovation Zone," tells Kelsey Hubbard historical periods of high unemployment proceed periods of extremely high innovation....
Sverre Roang has asked his colleague, Lisa Lange, to let us know about an interesting wrinkle in the economic stimulus plan (also known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which we will refer to in this column as the "Recovery Act") that could be...