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A disgusting video: U.S. companies sell out Americans

. The people on this video make them look like saints. Why? Because the people on the video have no regard for people trying to make a living to support their f...

Northwestern Mutual, American Family make Computerworld's best IT workplaces

Northwestern Mutual ranked 25th among the top 100 IT workplaces, while American Family was number 66 on the list....

Brazilian bio-industry should impress American investors

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DHC 2007: Without fuller IT adoption, health costs might drain America's wealth

Within healthcare IT, a subje...

Silver linings in the cloud: America's dearth of STEM students

It's even more impressive that their competitors were seasoned college students. Led by instructor Timothy Jump, students from the Mi...

CIO Leadership Series: Byrne Chapman, American Family Insurance

The direction comes from within, and Byrne Chapman, vice president of the IS Division, can sum it up with a familiar phrase: nothing ventured, nothing gained. To b...

Metavante fires 180 North American workers

Chip Swearngan characterized the firings as managerial expense control decisions made as part of setting bus...

300 millionth American no cause for eco-alarm

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American Idol spurs music software

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Healthcare software addresses "90 million" misclassified Americans

Then imagine employers basing their health plan buying decisions on the often inaccurate information contained in that tool. Employers don't have to imagine such a scenario because they have been living it, unbeknown to them, for yea...

Technology and the "American" dream

, a celebration elsewhere on the planet of the contributions to society and economy of the working class. Throughout the U.S. today, hundreds of thousands of people will take to the streets in support of a more practical an...

Peters: Innovation the only edge that remains for American business

Relentless and bold innovation is about the only card American businesses have left to play if they are to withstand the competitive threat posed by China, and chief information officers must take the lead in driving innovation, according to author and business innovator Tom Peters. Peters spoke on Wednesday of the merits of building an "innovation machine" to a gathering of Wisconsin bu...

Democracy and the Net - How American ideals are quietly influencing the world

Perhaps that explains why some global web-o-crats are forever working to wrest maintenan...

Blogging moves to corporate America

The big deal is becoming increasingly apparent as blogging moves from the journaling of twentyso...

More Americans working away from the office

An increasing number of Americans are working away from company offices and using broadband services to help them do their jobs, according to results of a study conducted by a Milwaukee company for "The ability for people to work...

Probe into gas gouging may educate Americans about pressures on oil supply

My enthusiasm is only partially based on what the commission may learn about illegal...

Six Wisconsin firms to present at BIO Mid-America VentureForum

The Wisconsin companies will travel to Minneapolis for the Sept. 21-23 ,...

Is America prepared to win the global skills race?

Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, is famous for, among other things, saying things no one understands (and sounding smart doing it). Recently however, he managed to speak quite plainly (by Greenspan standards) about the skills problem that now exists within the American workforce. Here's what the Fed chief said about it during his semi-annual rep...

We are American No sex, please

Suddenly, French Connection of UK went soft and packed up their most cherished and notorious brand...

American Family CIO takes entrepreneurial approach to innovation

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Corporate Americas hidden deficit

Deficits are growing and many people in government, business and academia are worried. The U.S. federal government deficit is now at an unprecedented level. Most economists including Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and politicians on opposite sides of the political spectrum are concerned that it is simply unsustainable in the long term for our government to spend far more than it takes in...

Is America Inc.s brand diminishing?

This provocative statement opens Richard Floridas article, Americas Looming Creativity Crisis, which appeared in the October 2004 issue of the Harvard Business Review. (The full text of the article can be purchased o...

The passing of Ronald Reagan, and other Americans, is a reminder of the promise of stem-cell research

MADISON My fathers slow retreat in the face of Alzheimers Disease was typical of how it robs people of their lives. His degeneration was slow, at first, but gathered momentum over time. Independence turned to dependence. At the end, Claude Richmond Still was in otherwise fine physical shape for a man of 80, but his memory and even his ability to mumble more than a cogent word or two was gone. Hi...

Americas weighty problem: Why the fight against fat is about more than just looking good

MADISON Speaking to a home-state crowd last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson described how his agency touches Americans in unseen ways every day, from regulating the prescription drugs they take to administering their Medicare accounts to watching over the safety of the food they eat. We just want you to eat less of it (food), joked Thompson, the former Wisconsin...

Americas Third Coast nurtures biotechnology

The biotechnology community in Wisconsin calls itself Americas Third Coast, referring to its proximity to Lakes Superior and Michigan. Approximately 150 companies belong to the Wisconsin Biotechnology Association (WBA), based in Madison, which is also home to the Big 10 campus of the University of Wisconsin. With its worldwide reputation for s...

Offshore outsourcing affects American workers

There has been so much media attention focused on the effects of outsourcing technology and offshore manufacturing that its finally shedding some light on the issue. Whatever the product, there is an effort to ship it outside America to cheaper labor. The effects of this are hurting many aspects of Americans industrial and personal lives. It doesnt matter what you are making, whether you manufact...