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Venture-backed firms could become eligible for federal SBIR grants

The will soon consider a proposal that would give small companies majority-owned by venture capital firms eligibility for Small Business In...

Can Madison become a video game Mecca?

While the establishment of two successful game developers - - hardly represents a critical mass, the Capital City does host a nationally known Games, Learning, and Society Conf...

Daugherty becomes CTO of Great Lakes BioFuels

"We are very pleased to have a partner with Mark's research track record and technology start-up expertise," said H. Tony Hartmann, company CEO. "He is a perfect fit f...

Boston equity firm becomes majority owner of Cedarburg-based Mortgagebot

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Biodiversity threatened as forests become 'islands' of green, UW professor says

America's national forests are beginning to resemble "islands" of green wilderness, increasingly trapped by an expanding sea of new houses, a UW-Madison forestry researcher reports at the 90th annual Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Montreal, Canada. The widening circle of development around forests such as the Cleveland National Forest in Southern California is serving to...

Historic observatory becomes hot property on Lake Geneva

The University of Chicago has put its Yerkes Observatory, an ornate building on Wisconsin's Lake Geneva, up for sale to fund "making this century's discoveries," the Chicago Tribune reported. Historic, beautiful and obsolete, the observatory sits on 77 lakeside acres in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, and is a reminder of technology's inevitable replacement. Now more recreational site than cent...

VoIP breaks out, but let's hope it doesn't become a verb

) that lets me make peer-to-peer voice calls from my computer to anyone else on the Skype platform. My interest in the product wasnt purely theoretical. Certa...

San Diego success stories become a challenge for the Midwest

Mary Walshok, an associate vice chancellor with the University of California at San Diego, thinks the area has limitations that lie not with its resources or industry, but with cultural barriers that encou...

DataPod becomes BeInSync so you can, too

Sharing files (Source: BeInSync) BeInSync, the software, uses secur...

Wisconsins Businesses Can Become Environmental Leaders

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 industry resided with the utilities, the federal government and individual state public service...