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Fiserv posts 30 percent quarterly loss

The information management services firm reported net income of $105.9 million, down from the $150.5 million reported in the fourt...

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

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's battled the notion that Wisconsin is a "flyover state" that nei...

National angel investment grew 11 percent in `06

The angel investor market is considered the spawning ground for the next wave of high-growth investments, and judging by the continued growth in the national angel market, a diversified range of opportunities await later-stage institutional investors. In its , the <a href="http://www.unh....

Musicnotes reports 45 percent growth in 2006

The company, which posted its first full year operating profit in 2006, said it sold sold almost 850,000 downloads in 200...

Cray signs $250M deal to develop supercomputer

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RedPrairie exec calls for 50 percent tax cut

John Jazwiec, who earlier this year made headlines when he criticized the state's business climate, outlined w...

Renaissance earnings down 46 percent

Renaissance is a provider of computerized assessment and progress...

State campaign seeks to reverse negative perception of manufacturing work

-- Careers in manufacturing are high-wage and high-tech. Yet, a future workforce shortage may be on the horizon. It appears a negative public perception - one that brings to mind low wages, assembly-line work and lay-offs - is thwarting young adults from pursuing manufacturing careers across the country. This despite a projected need for 10 million new skilled workers by 2...

GE Healthcare third-quarter profits up 17 percent

GE Healthcare -- the London-based parent of GE Healthcare Technologies in Waukesha -- reported revenue of $3.6 billion for the second quart...

Criticare reports 20.3 percent increase in sales

In reporting its year-end numbers, the company said fourth-quarter net sales for fiscal 2005 were $8,020,894, more than 20 percent high...

The 3 percent solution: Unpopular drug companies still push discovery

"The polls say only 3 percent of the people in the country have a favorable view of drug companies," Pfizer executive McNeish told a group of about 75 people, mostly scientists, who gathered at Universi...

Rockwell Automation ups quarterly dividend by 36 percent

Chairman and CEO Keith Nosbusch said the change reflected strong earnings and the board's confidence in the company's future. Rockwell makes control and automation systems for industrial applications. In fiscal 2004 it...

SGIs Wisconsin branch builds fastest supercomputer yet in four months

built the world's fastest supercomputer in about 129 days, and it was the company's Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, plant that pulled the project together. SGI announced the completion of the $50 million project for <a href="http:/...

It's 99 percent certain: Research cannot rely on adult stem cells alone

dismissed scientific research using human embryonic stem cells as little more than an inconsequential sideshow. Michels said he supports the 99 percent of stem cell research that uses adult stem cells...