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To address the lack of rural broadband service in Wisconsin, Gov. Jim Doyle has announced $7.5 million in sales tax exemptions and tax credits for businesses to expand broadband access. It's a move that could provide cell phone and high-speed Internet service to 350,000 Wisconsin...

Timothy Stultz is leaving Imago Scientific Instruments, a company he has led since 2003, for the California-based Nanometrics, following the layoff of 10 Imago employees. Stultz will remain as chairman and be replaced as CEO by Tom Kelly, who founded the company and has...

These are heady days for the Wisconsin biotech industry, as the recent financial success of TomoTherapy and NimbleGen would attest, and the presence of Mentor Corp. at University Research Park would argue, according to Jim Leonhart, executive vice president of the Wisconsin Biotechnology and Medical...

Metavante Corp., the financial technology subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley Corp., has appointed two executives to key technology positions. The company, which has a history of promoting technologists, has named Gary Refinski as chief information officer and Dave Fortney as chief technology officer....

CIOs who flinch at the mere mention of the word “auditor” must be feeling pretty jumpy in this heavily regulated era. Yet the right mindset and attitude toward compliance can pay off handsomely when it comes to improving information technology governance, and showing upper management...

One of the more productive partnerships in Wisconsin business ended last week when Baird Venture Partners officially exited its investment in NimbleGen Systems through the sale of NimbleGen to Roche. As a result of the Roche acquisition, NimbleGen will return a meaningful percentage of capital...

When it comes to promoting Wisconsin as a business location, the state's approach and the resources devoted to it have been lacking, writes Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still. The next state budget, which is now being hammered out in Madison, should not shortchange the need...

Jeff Williams, the new chief executive of Platypus Technologies, was brought back to Madison for his expertise in commercializing technology, and his new company will be giving him plenty of practice at bringing products to market. Platypus, which has developed nanotechnology-based research tools, is ready...

The term "project deliverables," the latest reincarnation of "We deliver," is one of the performance standards CIOs use to measure information technology projects, but they should not be the "be-all" and "end-all" of IT projects. In this WTN Guest Column, IT consultant Patrick Gray says...

A telling statistic in online sales is that 98 percent of Internet shoppers leave e-commerce sites without buying, but the smarter Internet marketers aren't letting go without a fight, according to columnist Troy Janisch. In this edition of Tech/Know, he touts new technology that is...