Entrepreneurs

Two recent studies look at the use of collaboration technologies in the workplace, including Forrester's “The State Of Workforce Technology Adoption: US Benchmark 2009” and Frost & Sullivan's “Meetings Around the World II: Charting the Course of Advanced Collaboration.” Both reports have great stories to...

New research shows the economic importance of home-based businesses: They account for more than half of all U.S. businesses and employ more people than venture-backed companies More than half of all U.S. businesses are based at home. An estimated 6.6 million home-based enterprises provide at...

The November 2009 edition of Popular Science magazine recognized two University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering alumni as two of its “Brilliant 10,” the 10 young geniuses shaking up science today. J. Adam Wilson researches brain-computer interface technologies. Dennis Hong developed intricate robots with artificial intelligence through...

To cope with this increasing workload at a time of shrinking budgets, legal departments are doing what other areas like sales, finance and human resources did long ago: namely, leveraging technology. Previously they may have relied on service providers offering expensive white-glove service, now they...

If a research and development tax credit is allowed to expire at the end of the year, 120,000 U.S. jobs could be put at risk, according to a group of companies supporting an extension. A lapse in the tax credit could also put at risk...

Speaking at Metropolitan Archives, a small business in Landover, Maryland, on Wednesday President Barack Obama outlined some of his administrations initiatives that will support more lending to America's small businesses. Among those initiatives is the call to Congress to increase the cap on 7(a)...

The majority of Wisconsin - based technology vendors executives who responded to a recent survey rate Wisconsin's economy as poor or only fair, perceptions about the state's economy amongst those executives shifted positively from the second quarter to the third quarter. The survey did not...

Sajan, a Wisconsin - based on-demand translation technology and services, has announced the formation of Sajan Software, Ltd., a new wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to advancing cloud-based translation technologies. Sajan selected Dublin, Ireland as the headquarters for Sajan Software based on Ireland's reputation as a business-friendly...