Entrepreneurs

It would appear that a declining number of companies are attracting more venture investment dollars, according to the quarterly investment report released by Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureOne. Wisconsin was symbolic of that trend, reporting only two deals for a robust total of...

His company's recent loss of market share provided the backdrop for his talk at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2007, but Michael Dell made it clear that Dell Computers isn't content to accept its position as number two in the PC and server market. The Texas-based computer...

What can inventors do in response to the controversial KSR patent reform case? When considering patent protection, they should analyze the prior art landscape, according to Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek attorneys Jeffrey McIntyre and Jonathan Fritz. In this edition of IP Law, they write that understanding...

Fiserv Inc., a Brookfield-based provider of technology and service solutions, will integrate the analytical and statistical tools of BancIntelligence after acquiring the Atlanta company for an undisclosed price. BancIntelligence's solutions will be rolled into Fiserv's bank and credit union product suite....

When American companies leave their homeland domain and venture into China, they don't necessarily take their trademarks and domain names with them, according to columnist and attorney Deborah Wilcox. In this edtion of IP Online, Wilcox offers some advice on how U.S. businesses can protect...

The Wisconsin Security Research Consortium was created to improve Wisconsin's ability to attract and retain research and development grants, especially for sensitive research. It has been funded for less than a year but already has three projects in the works as it seeks to match...

Mary Burke, the state Secretary of Commerce since 2005, will leave the post next month to concentrate on family and non-profit interests. A new secretary will be announced in the forthcoming weeks. ...

College students are not the only ones engaged in the world of social networks like MySpace and Facebook. In this edition of Buzz Networks, columnist Paul Gibler brings you up to date on some rapidly evolving social-networking trends, including the fact that corporations finally are...

Rural hospitals in Wisconsin and elsewhere are less likely to have adopted healthcare information technology like electronic medical records, but gradual progress is being made both in terms of IT deployment and patient data exchange. With the help of grant funding, Wisconsin's rural hospitals are...