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Trade experts in a WisBusiness.com virtual trade luncheon said the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific trade framework could lead to economic growth for Wisconsin despite continuing tensions with China. President Biden in May announced the framework aiming to combat...
InsideWis: A ‘perfect storm’ in Wisconsin jobless claims prompted tech overhaul
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – It was not a pleasant time in the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. The start of the COVID pandemic in early 2020 prompted a surge of unemployment claims as thousands of people lost their jobs, state call centers were...
Madison.com: Amazon prepares to go electric in a big way with delivery vans at Racine County hub
Amazon Inc.’s commitment to electric vehicles might make headlines on Wall Street, but the company’s hub in Racine County is becoming where the rubber meets the road. Amazon has won approval from the Village of Yorkville to install almost 400 new electric-vehicle...
Madison Magazine: Three engineering siblings launch a company and the home-built airplane of their dreams
Growing up in tiny Frederic, Wisconsin, the Karl brothers were always tinkering. Always building something — “or taking things apart, probably more often than building things,” says oldest brother Ryley Karl, laughing. Nobody’s laughing now. DarkAero, the company...
The Journal Times: Construction of new UW-Madison school means end for century-old buildings
UW-Madison will begin demolishing two century-old buildings this week to make way for its new School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences. The Old Heating Plant, also known as the Service Annex, was built in 1908 in a neo-classical style; the Service Building...
WisBusiness: Development leaders in Madison and Milwaukee say business is booming
Downtown development leaders for Madison and Milwaukee say business is booming in the state’s two largest cities as each continues to rebound from the pandemic lull. “Now is the time to really say, everyone in the community, let’s bet on downtown Madison, let’s bet on...
The New York Times: Schools Are Spending Billions on High-Tech Defense for Mass Shootings
Reid Bauer was finishing lunch period last year at his middle school in the Atlanta area when an alarm began blaring through the halls, warning of an emergency. Reid, then in sixth grade, had never heard the school’s “code red” alert before. It was part of a new $5...
PR Newswire: FluGen Announces First Subject Dosed in Phase 1b Clinical Trial of its Intranasal M2SR Flu Vaccine, Co-Administered with High Dose Vaccine, in Older Adults
FluGen, Inc., a clinical-stage vaccine company transforming vaccine efficacy in infectious respiratory diseases, today announced the dosing of its first subject in an unprecedented study of older adults ages 65-85 years. The study will evaluate the safety,...
Wisconsin Inno: MilliporeSigma opens $65 million facility in Verona
Life science company MilliporeSigma said Monday it opened its new $65 million, high-potent active pharmaceutical ingredients production facility in Verona, bringing 50 new jobs to the Madison area. MilliporeSigma, the Burlington, Massachusetts-based U.S. and Canada...
Wisconsin Inno: Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce completes first entrepreneurship boot camp with Harley-Davidson
The Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce completed its first entrepreneurship boot camp June 23 with a graduation ceremony for its 17 participants at Harley-Davidson Inc.’s Milwaukee headquarters. The chamber teamed up with Harley-Davidson’s supplier diversity...
Wisconsin Inno: AI in ‘very early innings’ of unlocking business potential, former Fiserv CEO Yabuki says in UWM keynote
Artificial intelligence (AI) is key for companies creating movies to sports betting odds as the world undergoes a data-led economic transformation, former Fiserv Inc. chairman and CEO Jeff Yabuki said Friday at a UW-Milwaukee Artificial Intelligence and Analytics...
MKE Startup News: Stellar Tech Girls opens doors for future STEM career
The U.S. Census reports that 15% of engineers working in the nation are women, despite women making up 48% of the total U.S. workforce. Aerospace Engineer Marina Bloomer started experiencing this disparity in high school when she was the only girl enrolled in her AP...
Madison.com: Business Class: Tech companies see a role for their products in addressing mass shootings
The recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, have prompted questions from business and law enforcement experts in Dane County and around the state about whether technology can help curb future massacres. It's possible that rapid response tech can...
PR Newswire: MilliporeSigma Opens US$ 65 Million CDMO Facility to Address Demand for Critical Cancer Therapies
MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, has doubled its high-potent active pharmaceutical ingredients (HPAPI) production capacity with the expansion of its facility...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Medical College receives $50 million gift from Kern Family Foundation
Waukesha-based Kern Family Foundation has pledged $50 million to the Medical College of Wisconsin, in its second major philanthropic contribution to MCW in the past five years. The gift builds upon $37.9 million give by the foundation to MCW in 2017 to establish...
InsideWis: Does economy spell gloom and doom for startups … or rethink and reset?
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Predictions abound that public markets have yet to hit bottom and the fallout may well extend to young companies seeking angel or venture capital, which is often financed by wealth created when initial public offerings pan out and market...
Wisconsin Public Radio: Utilities say Wisconsin coal plants will operate longer due to COVID-19 supply constraints
Several Wisconsin coal plants will remain online years longer than planned as supply constraints caused by COVID-19 delay plans to transition away from fossil fuels, two of the state's largest utilities announced Thursday. Madison-based Alliant Energy and...
‘WisBiz: The Show’ features Max Duckworth of MaSa Partners, Tech Metrics and upcoming events
Welcome to “WisBusiness: The Show,” a twice-a-month Web show covering state business news and issues. In the latest episode of “WisBusiness.com: The Show, Max Duckworth of MaSa Partners talks about the Wisconsin-based “social impact” investing firm, what it looks for...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Milwaukee-based EmPower HR acquired by Phoenix-based HR firm
Milwaukee-based EmPower HR, a professional employer organization (PEO) and human resources outsourcing firm, has been acquired by Phoenix, Arizona-based Vensure Employer Services. Vensure also provides PEO solutions and human resource outsourcing to small and...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Joel Brennan on GMC’s role in the community, the push for a Milwaukee County sales tax referendum and more
This week’s episode features a recent program from our partners at the Rotary Club of Milwaukee with David Haynes, a Rotarian and editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Ideas Lab, interviewing Joel Brennan, president of the Greater Milwaukee Committee. Brennan...