Technologies

Platypus Technologies receives $1.6 million NIH grant

The Small Business Innovation Research grant is for continued development of the company's proprietary liquid crystal based technology to enable faster screening of drugs for treatment of cancer. The com...

Standard Imaging acquires Canadian PIPSpro radiation treatment technologies

Middleton, Wis. s assets. Among the assets acquired from the British Colum...

Standard Imaging acquires Canadian PIPSpro radiation treatment technologies

Middleton, Wis. assets. Among the assets acquired from the British Colu...

Alliance Brings E-Business Technologies to Wisconsin Manufacturers

MADISON, Wis Small and mid-sized business in the state will soon be able to benefit from a new alliance announced today between Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP) and the University of Wisconsin-Madisons Consortium for Global e-Commerce (UW CGEC) which will bring e-business technologies to local manufacturers. Helping Wisconsin manufacturers apply e-business technologie...

Barriers will not stop convergence of medical technologies

During residency, which is not the free-for-all carnival that Gray's Anatomy would have us believe, one of the most important judgment calls that is learned is whether the patien...

Merge Technologies' net loss doubles to $10.1M

While the first quarter loss was well below the $27.0 million, or $0.80 per share net loss reported in the fourth quarter of...

Making deals with evolving technologies in mind

In today's business environment, companies must consider and understand h...

Third Wave Technologies to raise $14.9M through private debt

According to Third Wave, the notes are convertible into approximately 2.48 millio...

Meier joins Broadlook Technologies as COO

Meier brings experience in the legal, private equity, and venture capital sectors, and he will be responsible for helping the Milwaukee-based Broadlook grow through sales, marketing, and...

Platypus Technologies secures $450K SBIR grant

The funds, granted by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences<...

Napier joins board of Third Wave Technologies

Napier's background in general management and marketing will bring marketing insight to Third Wave, according to president and CEO Kevin T. Conro...

aOva Technologies raises $3 million

aOva recently announced the closing of its latest financing round, which began on March 17 and closed one week ahead of schedule. The funding, collected from various angel investors, will be used by the company to further its...

Consumer, business technologies face same challenges

Each DEMO event captures a moment in the wild ride that is this personal technology industry. Indeed, over this conference's 16 years, we've seen ups and downs and more recently ups again. We've seen moments that have defined a year, like the great last hurrah of the Internet...

Promega to get early access to WARF technologies under new agreement

If Promega finds a technology of interest from <a href...

Linda Weber to run Fiserv's Interactive Technologies unit

Weber joins Interacti...

UTEK Corp. acquires Xylose Technologies

A company whose fuel technology was developed at the USDA Forest Products Laboratory in Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been acquired by The company, Xylose Technologies, Inc. (XTI), was a wholly owned subsidiary of with U.S. headquarters in Plant City...

Platypus Technologies receives Phase 2 grant

The funding will support continued development of a device for the rapid detection and identification of viruses based on Platypus's patented liquid crystal t...

Cedara acquisition costs hit Merge Technologies numbers

Although quarterly revenue was at a record high of $18.8 million, the company took a loss of slightly under $12 million, or $0.62...

Platypus Technologies wins another SBIR grant

Last fall, the company re...

Gaming technologies alter classroom, textbook models

The first annual was sponsored by <a href="http://www.ac...

Fiserv acquires fee and billing software developer Interactive Technologies Inc.

Interactive Technologies, headquartered in Summit, New Jersy, develops software for large international and dome...

WARF honored nationally; Wingra Technologies aquired; Third Wave financials up

In this week's Tech Update, by WTN's Mike Klein: The...

Wingra Technologies acquired by California software company

Wingra makes e-mail related software, including programs to move data from GroupWise and Lotus environments to Microsoft Outloo, which a Quest press release said would diver...

Prairie Technologies works with UW engineer to visualize the brain

Well, by pressing the open tip of an electrolyte-filled glass pipette much thinner than a human hair against the membrane of an individual brain cell, researchers can isolate a patch and identify the electric current flowing through individual ion channels on a cell's membrane. This technique is known as the patch-clamp method, and...

Merge Technologies to merge with software company

Pending stockholder and regulatory approval, the combined company will set up he...

Wingra Technologies updates data migration software

MADISON, Wis. The software can handle multiple users' mailboxes at a time withou...

Third Wave and 3M couple biotech technologies

MADISON, Wis. Under the agreement, 3M Bioanalytical...

Wingra Technologies releases new e-mail-message migration software

MADISON Earlier versions of GroupWise Migrator for Exchange could convert mail, archives, personal address books...

SRPM founded on CATI-patented technologies

STURTEVANT, Wis. A third company has formed based on technology licensed from the , or CATI. SRPM has secured a license agreement with CATI on its flexible, raised-pavement marking system, according to its executive vice president, Mike Bates.<br...

Three mainstream technologies you should not ignore

I am a technophile. I like big ideas and small microchips. In dictionary terms, it means I have an insatiable enthusiasm for technology, especially computers and high technology. In real-life terms, it means that I obsess over a wide array of unnecessary, overpriced gadgets that end up in my basement aside X.10 cameras, a commercial-strength FM transmitter kit, a few pinball machines, s...

TTM Technologies Receives Tech Zone Credits, New Legislation Expands Eligibility

Eau Claire, Wis. -- At a Grow Wisconsin forum in Eau Claire Thursday, Gov. Doyle announced TTM...

Entrepreneurs Preview Liberating Technologies

Scottsdale, Ariz. -- The The conference, now in its 14th year, attracts interna...

The Calm Before the Storm: Hot New Firms and Technologies

The two weeks before any DEMO Conference are a calm before the storm. The plans are set, the program is in place. The next 13 days will be spent in quiet preparations by a group of outstanding companies about to bring exciting products to market. As executive producer of the event, I'm bound by the rules that hold all of these product announcements confidential until their unveiling at t...

Identify Disruptive Technologies and Find the Next Big Thing

Madison, Wis. -- For the last few weeks journalists and industry forecasters have flooded magazines and Web sites with predictions of the big technological breakthrough for 2004. Many people wonder: Is there actually a way for knowledgeable consumers to predict the next big thing? According to Scot...

Suite Scheduler Announces Alliance with Ice Technologies

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Suite Scheduler, a provider of employee scheduling and management solutions, has entered into an alliance with ICE Technologies to resell Suite Scheduler solutions in the Midwest. , based in Iowa, focuses on delivering information technology services and solutions with a focus on...

Johnson Controls To Showcase New Technologies for the Auto Industry

MILWAUKEE -- Among the products and concepts slate...

The Search for new Global Technologies

Last week, I shared with you my observations on the French technology market. From Paris, I traveled on to Tel Aviv and spent two and a half days talking to technology companies in Israel. Though I rarely ventured from my hotel, it was a fascinating experience, as always. Much of the visit was a challenge to the assumptions I (like many Americans) make about Israel. Let me start by sayin...

EraGens Revolutionary Genomic-Based Technologies

MADISON, Wis. - EraGen Biosciences of Madison, WI is a pioneering biotechnology company that designs, develops and commercializes genomic-based products and novel nucleic acid technologies. With start-up funding in 1999 from the pharmaceutical firm Novartis and private investors, the company has grown to 32 employees, includin...

SoftSwitching Technologies' Data Cited by U.S.-Canada Task Force

MADISON, WIS. -- investigating the causes for the August 14th blackout that affected large portions of the Midwest and Northeast...

GE Medicals Technologies Aid Battle Against Cancer

WAUKESHA, Wis. - According to the American Cancer Society, one in three people will be diagnosed with some kind of cancer in their lifetime. In an effort to improve patient care and contribute to the battle against cancer, GE Medical Systems has developed innovative medical imaging technologies that are allowing physicians to better detect, diagnose and treat this deadly disease. The la...