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Wisconsin investment organizations have led a $2 million round of funding for the Madison-based TrafficCast International, which provides digital traffic data. The round, led by the Phenomenelle Angels Fund of Madison and the NEW Capital Fund of Appleton, will be used to ramp up technology...

Jason Fried is not your typical button-down executive, but he's developed a fairly buttoned-up approach to putting Web-based software services on the market. Fried, the founder of 37signals, offered some insight into his unconventional ways during an interview at the recent Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Conference in...

Having spent two weeks getting re-acquainted with Windows and Office, columnist Chris Shipley harbors some remorse over not opting for MacBook Pro when choosing a new laptop. In this edition of DEMO Letter, she describes what a notebook consumer goes through with the new Vista/Office...

In its first financial report since becoming a publicly traded company, Madison's TomoTherapy reported surging revenues and a hefty net loss that was due in part to a temporary accounting adjustment. The report does not include $186 million in net proceeds from its recent IPO,...

A federal agency ranks Wisconsin first in the nation in healthcare quality, thanks in part to a Web-based quality reporting system launched in 2004. Dana Richardson, vice president of quality initiatives for the Wisconsin Hospital Association, said the report confirms the belief that "if you...

IT failures on expensive and high-risk projects in state agencies have gobbled up both newsprint and tax dollars, but not every state IT dollar has been wasted, notes columnist Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, Still toasts one state IT investment that actually...

You've heard of famous “Dream Teams” in basketball (think 1992 Olympics) and in legal circles (think O.J. Simpson), but how about a technology Dream Team of Microsoft's Bill Gates and Apple's Steve Jobs? In this edition of DEMO Letter, Chris Shipley's dreams include a “what...