Washington, D.C. - The U.S. private sector shed 522,000 jobs in January, according to the ADP employment index, pointing to another hefty month of job losses when the government reports its payroll figures on Friday. The ADP index, compiled from anonymous payroll data, showed the...
The U.S. House approves $819 billion emergency stimulus legislation that includes billions for broadband build-outs, health IT initiatives, smart grid investments, advanced battery technology, carbon capture and sequestration projects, and accelerated research in potentially revolutionary technologies with high job growth potential. Broadband build-outs to unserved...
No vendor program is perfect and every vendor has incidents of violating their boundaries with channel partners, but the recession is presenting extraordinary temptation to curtail channel efforts in favor of preserving direct revenues and profits. In the Channel Insider 2009 Market Pulse survey, they...
Just how effective will all the infrastructure stimulus money be without any best practices in place? It's a question worth pondering, notes columnist James Carlini in this edition of Carlini's Comments. Based on what he sees happening at the moment, it's much easier to find...
Declining worldwide demand has led to 200 layoffs at Hutchinson Technology Inc.'s manufacturing facility in Eau Claire, and company officials are not overly optimistic the trend will end anytime soon. "We believe the weakened demand we saw in the quarter resulted primarily from a decline in...
When House Republicans look at the $825 billion economic package headed toward a vote this week, they do not see President Obama. To them, the bill personifies Representative David R. Obey, the prickly Wisconsin Democrat who is chairman of the Appropriations Committee and has spent...
Is the economic recession actually a better time to conduct business for organizations that are lucky enough to survive it? That might seem like a stretch, but the talk at a recent Accelerate Madison technology program did highlight some of the few upsides of operating...
Stocks took a tumble yesterday on new economic data that did little to ease investors' concerns about the housing and job markets, and on signs that tech giants such as Intel and Microsoft are not immune to the recession. Growing expectations for quick passage of a...
The Make Mine A Million Businesses RACE, a program of Count Me In for women's economic independence, is courting participants among Wisconsin's female entrepreneurial class for a yearlong, online business growth marathon. The goal of Make Mine a Million is to help one million women-owned...
With interstate economic competition gradually becoming a thing of the past, Wisconsin and Minnesota are working to save money on everything from software to call centers, but they should not stop there, opines columnist Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, Still says inhabitants...