Entrepreneurs

Throwing down the gauntlet in the heat of the election season, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle is challenging the Wisconsin Legislature to approve $2.5 in spending for the Biomedial Technology Alliance. Additional funding for the alliance, a group of southeastern Wisconsin colleges and universities interested in...

TDS Telecom is betting that its new DSL broadband product will satisfy the need for speed among its small and medium-sized business clients, but there are critics who believe business consumers should demand broadband delivered over fiber rather than copper. ...

A new study from NorthStar Economics, Inc. has highlighted the economic value of the 114 high-tech companies that operate from Madison's University Research Park, and it's considerable. They contribute more than $680 million to the Wisconsin economy on an annual basis....

If Milwaukee and Wisconsin want to capture their fair share of the creative economy, they had better abandon their usual way of doing things, according to RedPrairie Corp.'s John Jazwiec. That means significantly lower taxes, an end to the welfare system, and a greater commitment...

While the Australian and New Zealand tech markets have yet to catch the Web 2.0 craze, there is plenty of no-nonsense IT in both lands. DEMO columnist Chris Shipley recently visited the Aussies and the Kiwis to get the lowdown on down-under tech companies, and...

Milwaukee residents and businesses will have to wait a little longer for citywide wireless Internet service. City administrators apparently have lost patience with Midwest Fiber Networks, the firm it originally selected to build the system, and is courting two larger firms - Earthlink and Cellnet....

Tetsuro Wakatsuki and Ayla Annac founded InvivoSciences to provide a way to test drug candidates on living tissue - without the need for inefficient animal testing. The company now is gearing up to send its screening system into a $6 billion market....

Since most effective search engine optimization (SEO) tactics require good information about keywords, marketers may want to employ a little cloudy vision, according to columnist Troy Janisch. The use of keyword density - the creation of a keyword cloud - can help boost your website's...