THE NEWSROOM

Jeff Williams, the president of Johnson Controls’ global products business, plans to retire from the company on Aug. 1, the company announced Wednesday. Williams has been with Johnson Controls for 38 years, including more than 30 years in its automotive business...

Portland-based startup Radious is embracing the changing world of work and providing both workers and companies with a bevy of remote working options. The company, founded during the summer of 2020, allows users to rent different types of workspaces. Amina Moreau, CEO...

Year in and year out, cement production is one of the biggest contributors to humanity’s carbon emissions. Making portland cement, the most frequently used cement around the world and a key component in concrete, releases about three billion metric tons of carbon...

A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor hopes to improve the lives of millions of Americans with hearing loss through his development of low-cost hearing aids that don’t require a prescription. Yi Hu‘s grandfather, who lived in a rural coal mining region in...

Exact Sciences Corp. (NASDAQ: EXAS), a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, applauds the recently announced Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Calendar Year 2023 Physician Fee Schedule proposal, which considers follow-up colonoscopy...

The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network published a study today in The Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open that concluded COVID-19 patients who activated remote patient monitoring (RPM) had a 32% lower rate of being...

Zywave Inc., a fast-growing insurance tech company based in Wauwatosa, has appointed a new chief financial officer. The company announced June 30 that Paul Rybecky would join its senior leadership team as chief financial officer, according to a press release. Rybecky...

Early next year, SafeNet Consulting is considering ditching its downtown Milwaukee co-working space in favor of a new, more flexible workspace option in a move that represents the evolving "future of work." The information technology consulting firm has signed on as...

Today Force Therapeutics announced that Marshfield Clinic Health System (MCHS), an integrated delivery network in Wisconsin, has selected its digital care management platform to improve access to care, reduce cost and quality variation, and increase patient-reported...

When a former automotive interiors factory was repurposed to manufacture lithium-ion batteries in this city of tulips and Dutch wooden shoes, the transformation was felt around the world. Now, the plant owned by Milwaukee-based Clarios International Inc. ships battery...

Thousands of acres of green hills roll among sand dunes, lined by trees with the occasional patch of wildflowers adding color to the green and brown landscape. And those hills continue to roll, expanding Sand Valley’s golf resort across about 12,000 acres that hold...

In an unassuming factory tucked behind trees on Highway 164, Husco engineers have spent decades developing products to increase fuel efficiency for top global automakers. But as the automotive industry changes to meet customer demand, Husco has also had to shift...

Startup accelerator gener8tor will expand into North Dakota with a new seed fund and three accelerators in the state. Wisconsin-based gener8tor Management LLC announced June 29 it would launch a seed fund called “gener8tor 1889” and three accelerators in Fargo and...

Nashville’s Metro Council is set to vote Tuesday on a framework agreement with the Republican National Committee in the city’s bid to host the 2024 Republican National Convention, and one council member says it may not pass. “I feel tentatively confident that we’re...

At the end of last year, Nishon Radhakrishnan was living in Boston and had just closed a seed financing round for his new mobile poker app, RadPoker. He was getting ready to hire a team and decided to relocate to Milwaukee, where his brother also lives and works in...

A machine learning device that helps rebalance a packaging machine at 3 a.m. when workers aren’t on the job, to a geospatial map of generator data were among the topics discussed by Generac and Rockwell Automation representatives Wednesday at a Summerfest Tech event....

PreventionGenetics, a subsidiary of Exact Sciences Corp., announced today that it was recently granted marketing authorization for the POMC/PCSK1/LEPR companion diagnostic (CDx) genetic test as a Class II device by the Center for Devices and Radiological Health...