Industry collabortions are part of the business plan of Madison's Virent Energy Systems, and the company has entered into another joint agreement to develop its platform technology for hydrogen production. Virent and Shell Hydrogen, a subsidiary of Shell Oil Co., have announced a five-year agreement...
Consistent entrepreneurial growth continues in the United States, but subtle demographic shifts continue to change the face of the American entrepreneur, according to the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity. Those shifts are occurring in the ethnic make-up of America's entrepreneurs, as Asians, Latinos, and immigrants...
MailFoundry, a Green Bay based anti-spam solution provider, has launched an anti spam appliance that can handle more than 100,000 users and 20 million e-mails per day. The filter is designed to be scalable and combat increasing threats from spam, phishing attacks, and viruses....
Women got the right to vote in 1920, the right to secure business credit in their own name in 1974, and the determination to develop their businesses into $1 million enterprises with the onset of Make Mine A Million. During the program's recent Wisconsin conference,...
The markets are deciding now who will lead the 21st century energy parade, but based on the Legislature's lack of support for Gov. Doyle's renewable energy program, Wisconsin's interest in marching is still unclear, writes Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still. In the words of colorful...
A recent Internal Revenue Service ruling is likely to accelerate the national pace of electronic medical record and healthcare IT adoption at non-profit and not-for-profit facilities. Wisconsin non profits, however, have been moving ahead with EMR and healthcare IT adoption despite national uncertainly about the...
Future technologists are on the way for IT labor-starved Wisconsin businesses. This June, fourteen Madison area high school students will receive Certificates of Graduation for completing an intensive information technology training program through the University of Wisconsin-Madison called the Information Technology Academy....
With its reach extending farther across the globe, TomoTherapy is opening an international Technical Training Center in Madison. The center will be used to train employees to maintain Hi-Art radiation therapy systems that are sold around the world....
Doing global business is not just a trend, it's a business necessity in many cases. Witness Wisconsin's expanding export business, which includes building commercial relationships in China and India. In this Visions interview with WTN, technologist Murali Iyer, a speaker at the May 22 Wisconsin...
When will people realize that the network infrastructure of the United States is not a drum for socialism, but a much more critical instrument to strategically position and sustain this country in the world economy? asks columnist James Carlini. A national broadband policy should not...