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FlexiPlate siRNA

... screening FlexiPlate siRNA is a giant leap forward for more flexible RNAi screening. FlexiPlate siRNA can be ordered at 0.1 nmol, 0.25 nmol, and 1 nmol scales in 96-well plates for your choice of target genes. For maximum flexibility, select siRNAs and specify pla...

To be a player in the "Knowledge Economy," Wisconsin needs more tech workers

...ne when NimbleGen was acquired by pharmaceutical giant Roche for $272.5 million. There are more than 100 biotechs of all sizes in the Madison area alone ( Promega is a leader with about 750 employees) and about 60 elsewhere in Wisconsin, mostly in the Milwaukee area. Wisconsin's medical devices indu...

Outflanking the Google, Yahoo, MSN juggernaut

The giant is under attack on multiple flanks. Google , the Internet utility and search-engine king, home to 64.1 percent of all U.S. searches in March 2007, according to Hitwise , is drawing out entrepreneurs and other search giants looking for strategies an...

Olympics of biotechnology has international flavor

...ambridge. So has AstraZeneca , biotech West Coast giant Amgen , and even Midwest Big Pharma Abbott Labs (in nearby Worcester). International interest What strikes me this year is the huge international growth of biotech. The annual meeting used to just a U.S. and Canadian event (it has been held tw...

GenTel acquires GlaxoSmithKline chip platform

...ithin GlaxoSmithKline's system, so when the pharma giant decided to reorganize its technology development group and shed the protein chip technology platform, GenTel was interested. Vodenlich isn't the only person who is bullish on the purchase of the protein chip platform. Paul Domanico, former vice pres...

Emergence of Internet video is changing the regulatory landscape

... and share videos. When the Internet search engine giant Google bought YouTube in late 2006, it signaled that user-provided Internet video is a business with staying power. Aside from the fact that Chad Vader is simply funny stuff (you can watch the first six episodes online), it symbolizes the coming o...

The Apple iPhone: A call to competitors

...agree with him there. Carlini's call This is a giant step in phone devices. I just bought a phone at Christmas, and all I wanted was a phone. I have the connection to the Internet on a trial basis, but I probably will not subscribe to it. Why? Maneuvering around the keypad is still not easy. On the ot...

Mirus Bio, Pfizer enter multimillion-dollar research agreement

...enes of interest to Pfizer, the biomedial research giant headquartered in New London, Conn. Pfizer, which now spends more than $7 billion annually on global research and development, has hundreds of research projects across oncology, cardiovascular health, infectious disease, and other therapeutic areas. ...

Company to operate in wireless Internet space

...the Amsterdam-based information and communications giant Getronics . In recent years, he has advised the likes of American Family Insurance , the University of Wisconsin-Madison , and Home Depot on their broadband or wireless communications systems. Leaving the relative security of a $4 billion inte...

Make Mine a $Million shoots for May program

...has secured a grant of $1.1 million from insurance giant AIG , and a commitment from Intuit to provide members with Quickbooks accounting software. Membership and awards program benefits are designed to help women entrepreneurs overcome barriers to growing their businesses. These include real barriers ...

Deltanoid presses on with drug research

...monstrated in Phase II studies, the pharmaceutical giant financed Phase 1A and 1B studies, supplying further proof of concept for Deltanoid. And next month, Deltanoid plans to pursue Phase II trials on its own. Phase II is pivotal, DeLuca said. If successful at outmaneuvering Pfizer, DeLuca, who has alre...

With patents, Wisconsin court gaining reputation as a "rocket docket"

...does this case, pitting an American pharmaceutical giant based in Abbott Park, Ill. against a European biopharm headquartered in Gent, Belgium, end up being litigated in Madison, Wis.? Charity versus cynicism The most charitable explanation offered for Abbott's defeat is an appalling lack of due dilig...

Doing the pharmaceutical tango

...GaA (the German Merck) is acquiring Swiss biotech giant Serono for $10.6 billion euros, or about $13.6 billion U.S. dollars. The same day Danish drug company Nycomed announced its plans to acquire Germany's Altana AG's pharmaceutical business (formerly known as Byk Gulden and more recently as Altana...

Protein lab could prosper under new owner

...AHP became the pharmaceutical and drug development giant Wyeth . Two years ago, Arsenal Capital Partners , a New York-based private equity investor in lower-middle market niche products and services companies, purchased SPL for $81 million. SPL has 121 employees and owns a biopharmaceutical manufacturi...

Covance spars with animal rights activists

...ignificant capital investment for drug development giant Covance Inc. , following the recent expansion of its facilities in Madison. Amid its preparations for the gambit of committee meetings and public hearings designed to dissect the merits of the plan, Covance has contended with protest groups stirrin...

Johnson Controls appoints Roell to head EOC

...e, Wis. - Building efficiency and power solutions giant Johnson Controls, Inc. has announced a reshuffling of its executive positions reflecting the creation an Executive Operating Committee. Steve Roell, vice-chairman and executive vice president, was named chairman of the EOC, a committee comprised o...

How Intuit competes with Microsoft, IRS

...etplace," Schar said. The fact that the software giant can bundle its small business accounting product with Microsoft Office didn't ease his discomfort, but Intuit began to develop a winning mindset by convincing the public early on that QuickBooks already had won the battle. Protecting the ecosystem ...

Apple Computer may use Apple logo on iTunes

...h court has ruled in favor of an American computer giant in its long-running legal battle with Apple Corps, Ltd. , a company the Beatles established in the 1960s to protect their commercial interests. Judge Edward Mann ruled that Apple Computer, Inc. is entitled to use the apple logo on its iTunes Musi...

AT&T should set sights higher than repackaging DSL with Project Lightspeed

... Cable franchise agreements If this is truly a giant step forward for the average consumer, why did Geneva, Ill. (who wanted fiber in an earlier referendum) say no? This was found in a recent suburban Chicago news article: AT&T officials have said because their project is Internet-based that the comp...

BIO 2006 aftermath and a taste of bio-generics

...harmaceutical market, according to IMS Health, the giant pharmaceutical research firm, represented worldwide pharmaceutical sales of about $300 billion in 1999 of which biotech drugs represented less than 2-3% of sales. Three years later in 2002, this total market had grown to about $400 billion, and bio...

Seven good reasons to approve the Institutes for Discovery

Ever since the Trojans hauled that giant wooden statue inside their walls, and woke up to the sound of armed Greeks in the streets, people have been examining gift horses carefully. There's generally nothing wrong with that careful policy - within reason. The state Building Commission will...

Swiss biotech has quality of its big pharma, watch and chocolate industries

...ording to L'Agefi Magazine, Midwest medical device giant Medtronic in 1997 invested $37 million to build a state-of the art facility off of Lake Geneva as the company's international headquarters. This was followed up another $31 million investment to build additional manufacturing facilities and capabilit...

Ethanol bill's death in Wisconsin ignores what's happening with our neighbors

...p toward a more bio-based economy. Agri-business giant Louis Dreyfus Corp. announced it will build the world's largest biodiesel production plant in northern Indiana, where it plans to crush nearly 50 million bushels of soybeans each year. That will produce more than 80 million gallons of biodiesel and 1...

Theres more than a bit of mystery, but attracting 'Big Pharma' is good for the state

..." In a way, Abbott's toehold in Wisconsin isn't a giant leap. The Kenosha site is only about 20 miles north of its North Chicago headquarters, and 14,000 of its 60,000 worldwide employees already work in Lake County, which is just across the border. Many of those workers live in the Kenosha area and trave...

Abbott Labs campus in Kenosha could send ripples through local biotech

Pleasant Prairie, Wis. Now that pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories Inc. has acquired 500 acres of land just across the Wisconsin state line for what figures to be a major expansion, some technology observers believe the impending development bodes well for creating synergies with the state's ex...

Milwaukee's software mecca

...ented software developers who work at the regions' giant employers. He also values stability. At a time when the software industry as a whole was experiencing annual job turnover of 18 percent, Shining Brow Software's turnover rate was just 6 percent. "We consistently find stability in Milwaukee," Lilek sa...

Biotech flourishes in 2005 while Big Pharma is on the decline

...t one hundred times earnings. Compare this to tech giant Microsoft, which has a market cap of about $278 billion, as well as the traditional tech companies of IBM with a market cap of $130 billion and Hewlett Packard with a market cap of $81 billion. To drill home this point, let's take a look at how the ...

Local group building Dane County economic development corp.

...kill level and attracted the attention of computer giant Dell as it was looking to expand and build a large plant. Madison Gas & Electric Chairman Gary Wolter said the region needed a central entity to draw people together and combine efforts at branding and workforce development, rather than having each ...

Midwest is key player for Biofuels industry

...an produce higher butanol yields. Food processing giant ADM recently announced the acquisition of biodiesel production facilities in North Dakota, and it would hardly be surprising to see this company and companies such as Cargill moving into this field in an aggressive manner. What is surprising is that...

Praise for the principles of Peter

Peter Ferdinand Drucker was a tiny man with giant ideas. Ill never forget the one and only time I saw him speak. It was in 1993 at a conference of business executives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There were one thousand of us packed in the ballroom of a hotel. Oddly for a keynote, Drucker spoke imme...

DEMO 2006: A sea change is coming

...se, is whether Microsoft can, once again, turn the giant ship and re-architect not just its software, but i...gher still by the markets distrust of the software giant and the very nature of service-based computing. The switching costs are low and more creative, nimbl...

Wisconsin plant is part of NCR's global RFID initiative

...is southwestern Wisconsin community is part of the giant NCR Corp.'s push to become a major global player in radio frequency identification. The plant, part of NCR's Systemedia group, produces various types of labels and thermal transfer ribbons embedded with RFID chips that NCR says overcome challeng...

Consumer "engagement" stressed at e-Business seminar

...at the sink, only to discover that she's wearing a giant bleach mustache.] Why would a company create such a website? Because it engages the consumer, he said. Internet advertising may be increasingly useful but it comes with its own challenges and perils. For one, it's consumer-driven, and consumer ske...

RFID starting to make real impact on business

...ves from the Department of Defense and from retail giant Wal-Mart, which hopes to achieve better supply chain management from the technology. But those mandates are not solely behind the drive toward widespread adoption of the technology. The simple promise of greater operating efficiency, which Wal-Mart ...

Hurricane Katrina: Many disaster recovery systems were outdated

...ane Katrina, many cities in the South could make a giant leap into the future by adding fiber and other broadband capability as they rebuild bridges, roads and downtown areas. Out of disaster could come a great rebirth of a network infrastructure upgrade equivalent to the Tennessee Valley Authority project...

Move over B2B, B2C -- it's M2E time

...erce-driven economy can easily shake up a sluggish giant country tangled in old economy models. It's this magic of e-commerce that now allows a direct to end user delivery that has become a boom for the logistical and door-to-door courier corporations around the globe. All those middle layers created over...

Beware -- Use of the word 'entrepreneur' can put you in a legal mess

...es. Smith cites the example of computer microchip giant Intel, which has obtained a trademark on use of the word "inside," as part of the company's advertising catch phrase "Intel Inside." According to Smith, a small non-profit that went by the name Yoga Inside, that teaches Yoga to people who are incarce...

Medical device industry growing in importance in Midwest

...argest hub of this industry with a large number of giant companies. A presentation at MIT in November 2004 about the medical device industry provided some good insights into the inner workings of this industry. Some of the big Midwest leaders in this field include: Like its drug counterpart, the medi...

Huge cyber-tsunami developing in Asia

...l anthems, the whole world will witness a sleeping giant take a dramatic turn. The nationalistic pendulums will swing and, with all the other bells and whistles in place, a new trade war involved in posturing and making this the dawn of an Asian Century will come into focus. Today in Asia, cell phones, co...

Brand Bullies- Entrepreneurs draw legal action over common words

...puter equipment, the suit gave the appearance of a giant stepping on an ant just because it could. For Konitzer, it was his first inkling that his selection of the word "Monster" might run into some opposition down the road. He also learned that because of Monster Cable's vigorous pursuit of those who wo...

Polymer grid technology a boon for bridges

...hnology, Bank and his students took their system a giant step farther. Traditionally, both steel and FRP reinforcing elements have been long bar shapes, which workers then have to secure together. But working with Strongwell, a Chatfield, Minnesota, manufacturer, Bank's group designed prefabricated, three-...

TomoTherapy considers IPO with medical-device business on the rise

...ton, was recently sold to Massachusetts-based drug giant Genzyme. Around Milwaukee, health-care companies ...veral manufacturing, IT and financial outfits. The giant GE Healthcare, though it has major operations in Milwaukee, is headquartered in the United Kingdom. ...

EraGen strikes big distribution deal; Berbee buys again

...cystic fibrosis, a genetic lung disease, to pharma giant Bayer Healthcare. Also: Berbee Information Networks Corporation has bought another IT firm, this one in Appleton. Original air date: Saturday, May 21, 2005 Listen to this episode Read more about EraGen's deal...

Innovative Health Strategies near Milwaukee set to profit from Medicare expansion

...tracted with California-based information services giant Informatica , which lists all 12 of the largest U.S. pharmaceutical companies as clients, to help it get a handle on its internal extract, transform and load (ETL) process to automate the receipt of data and convert it to a standard format. "That ...

Bill would require data keepers to notify consumers of info leaks

... by the kind of data breach suffered last month by giant California data aggregator ChoicePoint Inc. The company recently acknowledged that a theft ring used stolen identities to create presumably legitimate businesses, which the thieves then used to open dozens of accounts with ChoicePoint, according to...

Madison wi-fi plans move ahead

...ffort is moving toward making downtown Madison one giant wi-fi hotspot. AOL-SkyCable has been chosen to enter negotiations for the right to provide a wireless Internet service for the general public. The "Wireless Wisconsin" service would create a publicly accessible wireless fidelity (wi-fi) network co...

Trade deficit hits home in Wisconsin

... import-dependent nation rather than an industrial giant that supplies the world. Others dont see as much reason for alarm. They say Americans are trading more with the rest of the world than ever before, with 2004 exports surpassing the previous peak year of 2000 and signaling a mini-boom for U.S. manufa...

Pharmas will be forced into generic-drug strategy

... Only one major pharmaceutical company the Swiss giant Novartis has positioned itself strongly in the worldwide generic market and the development of new drugs. Most American pharmaceutical companies have sold off their generic businesses or given them short shrift. The growth of generics is an economic...

Global Internet branding of technology companies

...nly distractions, in reality; the globe is all one giant land of opportunity and a huge selling market. So we need some maps and trade directories but the fact remains there are customers out there searching for you. If you are visible, they will find you otherwise you will be almost there hidden just behi...

Free branding? Why not?

...ircuit that all are chipping away the armor of the giant branding companies who until now sold more on their posh addresses and furniture than raw talent. Million-dollar logos with a spin similar to thousands of others, million-dollar slogans, confusing sentences as branding miracles suddenly, such serv...

The black hole of corporate branding

... customer now dangles the mouse in the face of the giant corporation and gets hundred of competing products and services in a second the corporation simply tremors more. Is this the reason businesses are turning to mediocre marketing and losing their magic touch? Every business, by and large is simply fol...

UW space scientists use Keck telescope to study wild weather of Uranus

...ved cloud features of Uranus may be underpinned by giant hurricane-like vortices, as weve seen on Neptune, Sromovsky said, but its unlikely that they are as violent as the hurricanes that routinely batter Florida, for example. Earthly hurricanes, he explains, dispense a lot of energy. Uranus, which is 19 ...

Storytelling makes a comeback in an unlikely place

...ious as to where the babies come from, and finds a giant ogre throwing them in out of the villagers sight. She goes back and manages to get their attention one villager at a time, and brings them all to the ogre. Seeing they cannot defeat it individually, they band together and use their individual talen...

Five seed-stage funding groups filling Midwest Life Science void

...ust acquired by pharmaceutical specialty chemicals giant Sigma-Aldrich. He is also a co-founder of biochip ...pan, they are commercialized by the pharmaceutical giant Chugai. He is also a founder of Deltanoid Pharmaceuticals, Tetrionics and other companies. Thomas ...

DeLuca speaks out on entrepreneurialism, tech transfer, and WARF

...nd osteoporosis. A drug licensed to pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories and marketed under the name Zemplar uses vitamin D to assist patients facing kidney dialysis and renal failure. "It's currently WARF's best earner," DeLuca said. Andy Cohn, WARFs spokesman, was unable to confirm this statement...

Wisconsin giant continues to dominate the health care IT market

...o the health care IT market. However the Wisconsin giant was not finished, as in the autumn of 2003 it announced plans to acquire Amersham. Amersham, based in the UK, is a leading producer of diagnostic imaging technology as well as drug research and development technology solutions. GE Healthcare final...

Why is Enron now called Prisma?

...After a $60 billion rip-off, this disgraced energy giant sheds its old image of ENWRONG to PRISMA. After paying $665 million in legal fees, the company is restructured under the new identity of PRISMA while some of its executives walk to prison. The PRISMA Corporation is on a short leash, with a staff of...

Seven reasons new technology product development goes astray

...or. Even if youre not planning on being a consumer giant some day, this is one area in which its worth spending time on Six Sigma quality planning....

Cisco Chairman donates $31 million for UW building renovation

...with growing the company into a telecommunications giant during his tenure as CEO. Tashia Morgridge graduated from the School of Education in 1955 and has kept in contact with the school, serving on its Board of Visitors. She is a retired special-education teacher and has volunteered as a teacher for the l...

Biotech 2004: Cautious optimism

...he hostile announced takeover of the French-German giant Aventis by the also French company Sanofi-Synthel...Therapeutics for more than $1 billion and biotech giant Cephalon acquired Minnesota-based CIMA Labs . 5. The sudden but not totally unexpected departur...