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Ramped up sales for MediaSite and product services have helped bring Sonic Foundry to the brink of profitability. The rich-media company still is on track to become profitable in the final quarter of the 2006 fiscal year, and its third quarter numbers certainly are indicative...

Citing the area's unique business dynamics, Financial Executives International, a peer group for financial professionals, will launch a Madison chapter later this summer. It all begins with an Aug. 17 networking meeting at the Madison Club....

A number of research institutions, including Yale University and several that already are familiar with NimbleGen Systems, now rely on a chip produced by the Madison biotechnology company to study DNA interactions. They have entered into limited-access partnership agreements with NimbleGen to conduct previously unattainable...

University of Wisconsin-Madison computer engineer Zhenqiang Ma and materials scientist Max Lagally have used their thin-film, semi-conductor techniques to produce a faster, more flexible computer chip that could be used in sensing, imaging and, of course, computing. ...

Prodesse, a developer of assays for infectious disease detection, will add to its offerings the first diagnostic assay using light upon extension (LUX) technology developed by Invitrogen, and in turn expose Invitrogen's technologies to its global distribution capabilities....

Wisconsin Technical College professors gathered at Madison Area Technical College this month for an IT boot camp designed to help them keep pace with technological advancements. Their test will come in the classroom this fall when they attempt to apply what they've learned....

The federal government will continue to draw lines around human embryonic stem cell research following President Bush's veto of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. The House of Representatives fell well short of the two-thirds required to override....

Removing roadblocks to better autism treatment is the focus of a new online business, RelateNow, that recently went live and was unveiled at the Autism Society of America's annual conference. The web site is managed by Bret Shaw and Kelly Gatzke, who work on the...