Entrepreneurs

At the start of the new year, Dave Wittwer will succeed the retiring James Barr as the CEO of TDS Telecom, and lead the company's transformation from a traditional phone company to a broadband provider of Internet and entertainment service. Barr is retiring after 17...

Good people want to do the right thing when they leave a company, observes columnist James Carlini, but sometimes their employers won't allow them to. In this installment of Carlini's Comments, he states flatly that the two-week notice no longer is required, especially if the...

The electrification of check payments is a growing trend among small and mid-sized banks, and thanks to a business unit of Metavante Corp., a dozen of their larger brethren have joined them. Twelve of the nation's largest 25 banks now are part of the Endpoint...

Companies that don't act to protect their trademarks, even when they are unknowingly used by entities in other regions of the country, run the risk of losing their legal rights to them, according to Madison attorney Joe Boucher. In this latest version of Early Stage,...

Making municipal wireless systems work might take more than good intentions and equipment provided and installed at no cost to taxpayers. It also might spawn a whole new service industry represented by new businesses like Broadband Infrastructures....

For the second time in three years, a federal judge has dismissed a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Madison-based HyperPhrase Technologies, LLC. The first suit was filed against the Microsoft XP Office suite; this time, Google's AdSense and AutoLink products emerged victorious in what...

University of Wisconsin-Madison professor David Beebe is the recipient of the first ever Pioneer of Miniaturization Prize. The award will be presented by the Lab on a Chip Journal and by Corning, Inc. during the 10th annual International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and...

Tata Memorial Centre, and advanced center for cancer treatment and research, will be the first hospital in India to install TomoTherapy's Hi-Art radiotherapy equipment as part of a new partnership between TomoTherapy and Kirloskar Theratronics, Ltd. ...

Contrary to popular belief, the University of Wisconsin's flagship campus isn't just for Madison, and a new entrepreneurship program made possible by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation promises to spread the wealth around the entire state - literally. Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still believes this...