Platypus Technologies of Madison has announced the appointment of Eric Apfelbach, president and CEO of the Madison-based Virent Energy Systems, to its board of directors. Apfelbach, who also founded another Madison company, Alfalight, was appointed for his combination of scientific and business skills and...
Venture Investors has led a $2 million funding round for Tissue Regeneration Systems, a medical device company that was spun out of the Universities of Michigan and Wisconsin. The company, which has its sights set on a $6 billion market for spinal treatments, will use...
Being acquired by a global pharmaceutical giant was not exactly the exit strategy NimbleGen had in mind, but along came an offer the Madison biotechnology firm, and its shareholders, could not refuse. NimbleGen CEO Stan Rose explained how the company became an attractive acquisition target...
The birthplace of stem cell research, as Wisconsin is billed by Gov. Jim Doyle, is still trying to gain some traction in building a large cluster of stem cell companies. The number of stem cell companies that have been established in the 10 years since...
Earth Day was the backdrop, but operational savings and the ability to recruit and retain IT and other workers make up the business case for promoting telework, the practice of allowing employees to leverage information technologies to work remotely. In addition to being a sensible...
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students are getting ready to launch the first electronic game on a mobile phone platform that uses global positioning to allow players to physically interact with the surrounding virtual world. The game, Parallel Kingdom, is being developed by PerBlue, a technology...
The "visible" technology future is a favorite theme of technology futurist Dan Burrus, founder and CEO of Burrus Research and a keynote speaker at the annual Manufacturing Matters Conference in Milwaukee. Burrus has stressed the ability to predict hard and permanent technology trends, and taking...
They say going green has its advantages, and a real green company has won the 2008 G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition. Sky Vegetables, which plans to build greenhouses on the rooftops of supermarkets to save on transportation (and energy costs and carbon emissions), claimed...
The temptation to cut green IT spending in a weak economy may be too much to resist, but many green PC efforts can save companies money in the near- to mid-term, according to Gartner, Inc. For most companies, the global research organization says being green...
If you believe there is no information technology strategy that is separate and distinct from the business objectives of a company, you're in good company. Most chief executives believe so too, which is changing and expanding the role of chief information officers. Thinking strategically, and...