Three Wisconsin cities rank high for business opportunity

Three Wisconsin metropolitan areas have been ranked in the top 50 cities for business opportunity by Expansion Management magazine, a publication written for executives of companies that are looking to expand or relocate. Madison was ranked 14th on the list, which was topped by Austin,...

Is real broadband connectivity just a fairy tale? Columnist James Carlini poses that question in his most recent edition of Carlini's Comments, and the answer will not please the major telecommunications firms. Carlini, long a proponent of fiber-to-the-home service that provides the highest possible bandwidth,...

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...

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...

Thanks to an error in the way it accounted for accounting for the revenue from contracts that contain both a license of software and related maintenance, Merge Healthcare again faces delisting from the NASDAQ Global Market. The company, which has delayed its financial report for...

There are some hard rules for companies facing the software “Build versus Buy” decision, but it's not always a cut-and-dried judgment call. In deciding whether to go “off-the-shelf” or design from within, organizations must ask themselves whether software development is a core competency - if...

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....