Businesses in Biological Technology

Magellan Diagnostic Businesses to Feature Automated Systems and Diagnostic Tests at Clinical Lab Expo

CHELMSFORD, Mass., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Magellan Biosciences, an emerging leader in clinical diagnostics, will feature a variety of automated systems and diagnostic tests designed to help doctors make faster, more-informed treatment decisions in Booth 3244 at the 2009 AACC/ASCLS Cli...

The EntreTech Forum Presents... Greening Of America - The Conversion of Bio-Agriculture, Bio-Energy, and Bio-Products to Eco-Sustainable Businesses

BOSTON, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- At The EntreTech Forum 's February 17th meeting, the panel of business, technology and investment professionals - all contributors, supporters and participants in the emerging bio-economy - will emphasize businesses and technologies that present eco-sustainable act...

TechMandA.com Marketplace Streamlines M&A Process for Technology Businesses

TechMandA.com launches an online marketplace dedicated to connecting buyers and sellers of technology businesses through a confidential listing service. TechMandA.com, the marketplace for technology m&a, provides targeted access to buyers and sellers of technology business, with reduced effor...

The Michigan Life Sciences Pipeline Announces New Best Practices Seminars Tailored to Michigan Businesses

TROY, Mich., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- CJPS Enterprises, LLC, the operator of the Michigan Life Sciences Pipeline, is announcing a new seminar schedule available to Michigan companies interested in learning about best business processes and best practices in the healthcare industry. CJPS Enterp...

Angiotech to Establish Separate Operating and Royalty Businesses

Ares Management and New Leaf Venture Partners Commit To Purchase Convertible Notes in New Subsidiary of $200 to $300 Million Transaction Proceeds to be Used to Reduce Angiotech Debt VANCOUVER, July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANPI , TSX:...

Boston Scientific Completes Sale of Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery Businesses

NATICK, Mass., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX ) today announced that it has completed the sale of its Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery businesses to the Getinge Group of Sweden for $750 million in cash. The sale follows the definitive agreement a...

Pilot Therapeutics Announces New Executive Team with Extensive Experience Creating New Health and Nutrition Businesses

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Pilot Therapeutics Inc., a Nutritional Therapeutics Innovation Company, today announced the appointment of Ross Consaul as CEO and Keith Wakeman as President. "Pilot has always had promising technology and patents in the food, medical food and diet...

Survey Sees Mass. CEOs as Bullish on Own Businesses

High Expectations for Biotech Plan LOWELL, Mass., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than half of Massachusetts CEOs are somewhat optimistic about their own companies, but are concerned about the current state and national economies, according to a new statewide poll of 500 CEOs release...

DuPont Leaders Brief Investors on Agriculture Businesses

DuPont Science Addressing Increased Demand for Food, Feed, Fuel, Materials DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DuPont (NYSE: DD ) Chairman and CEO Charles O. Holliday, Jr., Executive Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer Thomas M. Connelly, and Group Vice President -- DuPon...

Boston Scientific to Explore Sale of Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery Businesses

Transaction Would Advance Company's Plan to Divest Non-Strategic Assets and Strengthen Operating and Financial Performance NATICK, Mass., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX ) today announced its intention to explore the sale of its Cardiac Sur...

WTN Interviews: How WARF is Reaching Out to Businesses About Technology Developed in Wisconsin

WTN Interview: Carl Gulbrandsen Editors Note: This is the first of a multi-part interview that took place earlier this fall with Carl Gulbrandsen , managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) . Part one reveals Gulbrandsens perspective on the new WARF initiative c...

Wisconsins Businesses Can Become Environmental Leaders

Studies suggest 1500 Megawatts of Electricity Could Be Saved The current state of energy policy in the Wisconsin, especially after the California Energy Crisis and the Blackout of 2003, is undergoing a paradigm shift. There was a time when the major power for change in the electricity industr...

Dane Country high-tech businesses continue to flourish

MADISON The latest edition of the Madison and Dane County directory of high-technology companies was released today by Madison Gas & Electric. Sponsored by MG&E and the City of Madisons office of business resources, the 2004 Greater Madison, Wisconsin, Area Directory of High-Tech Companies is de...

Rural Wisconsin businesses gain high-speed net access

MADISON SupraNet Communications, Inc. , an Internet service provider, recently added a third OC12 connection to their physical infrastructure, allowing them to provide Internet services to businesses in outlying communities that previously have had very few options. The new OC12 from Charter ...

Small businesses to benefit from Business Filings partnership

Sample newsletter Source: Constant Contact MADISON For small businesses, sometimes getting the company name out is a primary concern and Business Filings Incorporated is working to help these fledglings utilize the Internet for marketing. Through a partnership with e-mail marketing compan...

Interview: State CIO predicts small businesses and SOA will shape Wisconsin

Miszewski To Matt Miszewski, Wisconsin's best bet for 2005 is to do things faster. If the state wants to build off the accomplishments of 2004, it needs to watch the growth of small businesses and take a lesson from their agility. Miszewski, the state's chief information officer and the head ...

State's investment in early-stage businesses is changing perceptions

Madison, Wis. Attorney Joe Hildebrandt has been a part of many deals connecting promising young Wisconsin companies with investors, some close at home and others in the financial centers of the nations East and West coasts. Over the years, Hildebrandt told a legislative committee last week, he...

Modernizing the tax code can make Wisconsin tech businesses more competitive

Madison, Wis. More than 30 years ago, then-Gov. Pat Lucey and the Wisconsin Legislature agreed to exempt manufacturing equipment and machinery from property taxes. It was a bipartisan decision that has given Wisconsin industry an enduring edge, even when hard times and foreign competition thre...

Green Bay area businesses ramp up wireless access

Wireless internet access is popping up all over Green Bay, in traditional spots such as coffee shops, the airport and hotel rooms as well as a hair salon. But it's still an open question whether communities such as Green Bay will follow Madison and Milwaukee in making contracts for large-scale w...

Three state businesses receive technology grants

Madison, Wis. - Three Wisconsin businesses will receive funding for technology development projects from the Wisconsin Department of Commerce under the Technology Assistance Grant program. The TAG program provides grants of up to $15,000 to early-stage Wisconsin high-tech companies to offset the...

Are businesses getting what they need from IT?

Madison, Wis. - The dizzying pace of change sparked by the information technology industry gives the impression that workable solutions abound to almost every business challenge, but has IT really come through for business? Based on anecdotal evidence collected at a recent Wisconsin technology...

While schools combat low tech enrollment, are businesses contributing to IT workforce woes?

Editor's note : This is the third of a three-part series on information technology workforce development. Milwaukee, Wis. - Will members of the so-called Xbox generation ever be as interested in helping companies create information technology as they are in consuming it? Judging by the...

University Consortium Enables Transformation and Survival for Wisconsin Businesses

Madison, WI - Todays business climate is not for the faint of heart. Global competition and offshore manufacturing are striking a blow to Wisconsins economy, and this, combined with rising unemployment, the need to retrain workers, and a huge budget deficit is forcing Wisconsins business leaders to...

Business Filings releases software to help small businesses

MADISON - Business Filings Inc., a provider of services that help small businesses incorporate, has announced its release of a web-based application that businesses can use to manage annual state requirements. BizComply sends e-mails to business owners reminding them of due dates for annual re...

IT Fusion SOS provides outsourced IT aid to small businesses

source: IT Fusion SOS MILWAUKEE IT Fusion SOS (Small Office Solutions), a new, Milwaukee-based company, began providing managed service programs for its initial client group this month. The program the company offers, announced Tuesday, is based around an outsourced network management solution ...

$2 million venture debt fund available for high-growth Dane County businesses

MADISON, Wis. Entrepreneurs at emerging companies often face a dilemma as they reach a stage in the firm's development that requires additional capital for growth, but are challenged by either the lack of seed and venture capital, or traditional bank financing requirements. The Madison Develop...

SBC and AT&T merger expands global reach for Wisconsin businesses

With 50 million customers in 13 states, 60 percent ownership of Cingular Wireless and 5.1 million DSL Internet lines, SBC was hardly just another local phone company. To global-minded business customers, however, SBC was still a regional operator that lacked overseas punch. That was the harsh ...

MIT alums boost Wisconsin high-tech businesses

Waukesha, Wis. Alumni from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are coming together to offer Wisconsin companies a helping hand. In the last few years the MIT Club of Wisconsin, an organization of MIT alumni from across the state, has begun to branch out past alumni meetings. The organiz...

Grant winners hope to cultivate job-creating tech businesses

Business incubators are nothing new to Wisconsin the state has dozens of them operating but several of them are using a new round of state grants to inject fresh life into a tried-and-true concept. The Wisconsin Department of Commerce has awarded 26 grants totaling more than $750,000 from the ...

Fusion 2006 symposium focuses on making IT work for businesses

Madison, Wis. If the Fusion 2006 CEO-CIO Symposium is anything like last year's event, next Wednesday and Thursday will see the Fluno Center filled with top business and technology executives from all different places but asking the same questions. "CEOs and CIOs need one another, and need...

Angel fund to focus on women and minority businesses

Madison, Wis. - Amid reports that high net worth women represent a largely untapped source of capital for start-up businesses, Wisconsin's first angel fund focusing on investments in women and minority-owned or managed businesses was officially launched at the State Capitol. The Wisconsin Wome...

Big opportunities with small businesses

"We are men of action. Lies do not become us." - Dread Pirate Roberts, The Princess Bride Small business owners sometime seem like a big challenge to marketers. They can be difficult to target and easily dissuaded. Given the right opportunity, however, small business owners can also be ti...

TDS believes faster DSL service will suit small businesses

Madison, Wis. - Not everyone is a fan of providing high-speed Internet service over anything but the most up-to-date technology - fiber to the premises. The belief that leading-edge businesses won't continue to lead the pack with trailing-edge technology is pervasive, but TDS Telecom believe...

State to fund two minority-owned tech businesses

Madison, Wis. - Using money from the Minority Business Development Fund , the State of Wisconsin will provide loans to two minority-owned technology businesses in Madison. Gov. Jim Doyle said Aristotle Ventures, Inc., and iNOC, LLC , will receive loans to help them expand and create jobs...

OncoGenex Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...elopment (SRED) claim, which offset R D expenses in that period. The SRED program is a Canadian federal tax incentive program that encourages Canadian businesses to conduct research and development in Canada. As OncoGenex Technologies became an affiliate of a public company as a result of the reverse takeover, ...

The Breast Cancer Therapeutics Market in Australia

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Shire plc: Core Portfolio of Products Delivers 20% Sales Growth

...e loss from discontinued operations for the three months to June 30, 2009 was $9.8 million (2008: $nil), relating to net losses on discontinued Jerini businesses which were either divested or closed during the second quarter of 2009, the loss on divestment of Jerini's Peptides business and the write-off of the ...

National Institutes of Health Chooses Web of Science(R) to Power electronic Scientific Portfolio Assistant (eSPA)

...tion, go to www.discoverylogic.com . About Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financi...

Biopolymers Symposium 2009 Teams with Carbonfund.org to Create a Zero-Carbon Event

...mate solutions organization, making it easy and affordable for individuals, businesses and organizations to reduce and offset their climate impact. Carbon offsets enable individuals and businesses to reduce carbon dioxide emissions they are responsible for in their everyd...

Cardium Announces New Orthobiologics Product Initiative Extending Gene Activated Matrix Technology to Deliver Bone Growth Factors

...gic development of new and innovative bio-medical product opportunities and businesses that have the potential to address significant unmet medical needs and defi...ommercialization efforts will be successful or will effectively enhance our businesses or their market value, that our products or product candidates will prove t...