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AT&T* announced today that Paul Weirtz has been named state president of AT&T Wisconsin. As president of AT&T Wisconsin, Weirtz will lead all external, government and community affairs efforts for AT&T in the state. Weirtz succeeds Scott VanderSanden,...

Baird is now a minority owner of a new woman-owned investment platform that wants to make it easy for financial advisers to access direct indexing — an innovation it believes is the next disruptive technology in index investing. GAMMA Investing LLC, which is based in...

The latest recipients of state grant funding for innovation commercialization include a Madison company developing a new potential treatment for Covid-19 and a Middleton health tech firm building software that would benefit cancer patients. Those startups are among...

Exact Sciences says the $190 million acquisition of Marshfield-based PreventionGenetics will expand its cancer diagnostics capabilities. The move also sets up the Madison company’s entrance into the field of hereditary cancer testing, which focuses on detecting...

Brookfield-based Paragon Development Systems, Inc. has been acquired by Toronto-based Converge Technology Solutions Corp. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. A press release from Converge Technology Solutions Corp. states that consideration for the purchase...

Exact Sciences Corp., a Madison-based provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, has acquired PreventionGenetics, in Marshfield, for $190 million. Exact Sciences is the maker of Cologuard, a noninvasive test that looks for genetic markers of colon cancer....

SHINE Technologies LLC (SHINE), a next-generation nuclear technology company, and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) announced signing of the first-ever contracts as part of the...

If you’ve driven by University Research Park lately, you might have noticed the huge hole in the ground at the corner of Mineral Point Road and Whitney Way. That’s the future site of Element Labs, a five-story, 142,000-square-foot laboratory building where up to 20...

Kohler Co. is increasing its offerings in microgrid technology and clean energy with the acquisition of a Boston-area company that specializes in simplifying the integration and operation of distributed energy resources. Kohler-based Kohler Co. said Tuesday that it...

UW System interim President Tommy Thompson is resigning from his post, effective March 18. He announced his impending departure to the UW Board on Friday, as the search committee tasked with finding a permanent president anticipated it would name a hire sometime in...

Interim UW System President Tommy Thompson will resign his post in March, writing to Regents President Edmund Manydeed today that doing so will allow the university to put its full attention on his successor. Thompson, the longest serving governor in Wisconsin...

Milwaukee-based law firm Michael Best announced that it has acquired North Carolina law firm Forrest Firm. The deal adds 23 lawyers and 13 professionals to Michael Best, which will now have more than 60 legal and technical professionals in North Carolina and more than...

FluGen, Inc., a clinical-stage vaccine company transforming vaccine efficacy in infectious respiratory diseases, today announced Boyd Clarke, Executive Chairman is scheduled to present at the 40th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, January 12 at...

As we kick off a new year, Discovery to Product (D2P) is pleased to share its recent Impact Report. Learn how D2P makes a difference, providing mentoring, training and funding to UW–Madison innovators and startups, and connecting the campus and community ecosystems....

The economic recovery to the coronavirus pandemic in the Midwest has been mixed, Neel Kashkari, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said Tuesday. Wisconsin has been recovering, but the upturn has not been even across all industries, Kashkari...

National technology headlines in 2022 will be awash with news about web3, blockchain, crypto and the metaverse, as well as decentralized finance, and autonomous and electric vehicles. Those trends will likely impact the local technology and startup industry, too. But...