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All the news including "Tech Council News Service" and "Inside Wisconsin"Project TEMPO: Project Reach
Project Reach is a TEMPO Madison initiative to increase the number of women serving on business boards. The project provides resources for members aspiring to serve on business boards and for those responsible for filling board positions. Project Reach provides...
Milwaukee Business Journal: Why Milwaukee ‘was an easy choice’ to host RNC: Q&A with Republican senior adviser
Milwaukee’s coronation as the host city for the 2024 Republican National Convention was nearly pre-ordained from the time the selection committee visited earlier this year, the Republican National Committee’s senior adviser said in an interview with the Milwaukee...
Milwaukee Business Journal: InSinkErator being sold to appliance giant Whirlpool for $3 billion
Emerson Electric Co. (NYSE: EMR) said Monday it has agreed to sell its Mount Pleasant-based InSinkErator food waste disposal business to Whirlpool Corp. of Benton Harbor, Michigan, for $3 billion in cash. The Ferguson, Missouri-based technology and engineering...
WisPolitics: UW-Madison: Researchers identify ways to improve emergency care for people living with dementia
A new collection of research papers sets out priority areas to better provide emergency care for people living with dementia in the United States. While delirium – which, like dementia, also disrupts attention, cognition and consciousness – has been studied in...
BizTimes Milwaukee: SoFresh raises another $3.3 million to help growth into new food markets
Kenosha-based SoFresh, Inc. has raised another $3.3 million that will be used to support the company as it ventures into new food markets. That’s according to an Aug. 2 SEC filing that shows SoFresh has raised a total of $5.6 million since its founding. SoFresh...
Wisconsin Public Radio: UW System’s unrestricted reserves top $1B for first time since 2013
Preliminary budget numbers show the University of Wisconsin System's unrestricted fund balances topped $1 billion at the end of June. It's the first time those funds have hit the billion dollar mark since state lawmakers railed against tuition reserves in 2013....
Seehafer News: UWGB’s Institute for Women’s Leadership Launching New Programs in September
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is now enrolling women across Northeast Wisconsin for two new leadership programsavailable through the Institute for Women’s Leadership. The programs begin in September and are designed to meet the region’s ongoing need to...
BizTimes Milwaukee: It’s official: Milwaukee will host the 2024 Republican National Convention
Milwaukee will get another chance to host a national political convention when the Republican National Convention comes to town in 2024. The Republican National Committee on Friday officially selected Milwaukee to host its next presidential nominating convention. The...
Madison Startups: Gener8tor Celebrates 10 Years
This month marks gener8tor’s 10-year anniversary, the organization announced recently. Since 2012, the company, which has programming in more than 30 locations across North America, has helped 840 startups, create more than 7,400 jobs and raised more than $1 billion...
WisBusiness: the Podcast with Dustin Hinton, UnitedHealthcare
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Dustin Hinton, president and CEO of UnitedHealthcare in Wisconsin and Michigan. He discusses the health insurer’s plans to launch a new health plan for employers in southeastern Wisconsin at the start of 2023....
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Steve Booth, chairman and CEO of Baird, selected as Business Leader of the Year by Harvard Business School Club of Wisconsin
Steve Booth, chairman and CEO of Baird, has been named the 2021 Wisconsin Business Leader of the Year by the Harvard Business School Club of Wisconsin. The annual award honors a Wisconsin business leader who makes an impact within their organization, produces business...
WisBusiness: The head of the Wisconsin Technology Council says embedding high-voltage transmission lines in highway rights-of-way could help avoid construction delays despite higher costs
In a recent column, Tech Council President Tom Still says this approach to electricity transmission has several benefits such as making room for new broadband infrastructure, improving electricity grid resiliency and adding capacity for "moving large amounts of wind...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Wisconsin is helping create a 1,100-mile EV route along Lake Michigan
Wisconsin, along with three other midwestern states, has entered into an agreement to begin a collaborative project that will create a route for electric vehicles stretching along 1,100 miles of drivable shoreline around Lake Michigan. Described as an electric Route...
InsideWis: Passage of ‘CHIPS and Science Act’ will help U.S., Wisconsin over time
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – In an age of deep partisan divides, it was perhaps surprising that Congress passed the “CHIPS and Science Act” by wide margins – roughly two-to-one in the Senate and by more than 50 votes in the House of Representatives. It is less...
PR Newswire: German Study Group Announce New Study to Validate Detection of Minimal Residual Disease in Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients
Exact Sciences Corp. (NASDAQ: EXAS), a global leader in cancer diagnostics, announced today that it has entered a collaboration agreement with the West German Study Group (WSG), an international research institution that focuses on practice-changing clinical studies...
Milwaukee Business Journal: Nashville Metro Council nixes RNC agreement, paving way for Milwaukee as host city
In a decision that likely clears a path for Milwaukee to host the Republican National Convention, the Nashville Metro Council voted Tuesday night against a last-ditch motion for Music City to host the 2024 event. The vote was ten in favor, 22 against and three...
Madison.com: Exact Sciences reduces loss, beats analysts’ expectations in Q2
Madison-based Exact Sciences reduced its second-quarter loss compared to a year ago and beat analysts’ expectations in results announced Tuesday. The biomedical giant best known for its Cologuard test reported a second-quarter net loss of $166.1 million, or $0.94 per...
Tech Council support for RNC convention bid
Tom Still, Tech Council president, wrote a letter to Reince Priebus on May 25 in regards to Milwaukee hosting the 2024 Republican National Convention. Read the letter below. The board of directors for the Wisconsin Technology Council wish you and the host committee...
Wisconsin Public Radio: Utilities set to spend more than $2B on new transmission lines in Wisconsin
Three new transmission lines that are estimated to cost around $2.2 billion will cross through Wisconsin under a large expansion approved by the Midwest grid operator that’s designed to facilitate the clean energy transition. The board for the Midcontinent Independent...
Wisconsin Inno: RoofMarketplace raises $5 million to scale company, hire in Milwaukee
Property insurance technology company RoofMarketplace Inc. announced July 27 that it completed a $5 million Series A funding round. Whitewater-based RoofMarketplace, which has an online platform for insurance carriers and roofing contractors to fulfill roofing claims,...