The signs of a slowdown are evident in the housing credit crunch, slower retail sales, and record oil prices, but investment opportunity remains, according to Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still. While parts of the economy are unsettled, he reminds us that new ideas and companies...
Alfalight, a manufacturer of high-power diode lasers, has received an additional $1.2 million in funding from the Army Research Laboratory. The money will be used to advance fiber laser pumps that help make the lasers more cost effective and reliable....
Control Data Corp. was one of the pioneering supercomputer firms, known for sustained innovation, and that history recently was recounted in the Twin Cities, according to columnist John P. Katsantonis. In this WTN Guest Column, he writes that the CDC story is one in which...
OpGen and In-Q-Tel, a firm that identifies technology solutions for the U.S. intelligence community, have partnered in what the companies are calling a strategic investment and development agreement. Colin Dykes, OpGen's chief scientific officer, says the agreement is aligned with OpGen's move to deliver stand-alone...
Small business content, and lots of it, has always been the distinguishing characteristic of a Madison-based online publisher, but now - thanks in part to a bit of independence - it will provide its content via additional web-based tools. The Business Owner's Toolkit, supported...
The UW-Madison School of Business has received a gift totaling $80 million from alumni who have formed the Wisconsin Naming Partnership to support the school's mission. The group has provided a naming gift that will preserve the Wisconsin name for at least 20 years, during...
Has John Jazwiec's outspoken nature finally caught up with him? The controversial Jazwiec denies his resignation from RedPrairie Corp. has anything to do with a recent controversy over an alleged home invasion, but he's heading back to the Chicago area after having been replaced as...
Recognizing that it's a simple matter of economic survival, some rural communities are moving faster than larger suburbs in trying to plan and build new network infrastructure, notes columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he said the result could be that rural...
Sonic Foundry and Merge Healthcare have been named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the fastest-growing technology, biotech, and telecommunications companies....
TrafficCast International, a Madison-based provider of digital traffic data, has sold one of its travel applications to the Business Contingency Group, a leader in disaster recovery and emergency management planning services. The software will serve the Business Contingency Group's emergency operation and management centers. ...