THE NEWSROOM

Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) and Exact Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: EXAS), a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of Resolution Bioscience to Exact Sciences. Financial...

In conjunction with the National CHIPS and Science Act, the National Science Foundation last year created its new Regional Innovation Engines program to catalyze critical technology ecosystems across the U.S. that are stimulating economic growth and creating jobs....

Enrollment largely held steady at most of Wisconsin's public universities this fall, bucking a downward trendline that has plagued institutions across the demographically challenged Midwest. The campus-by-campus breakdown, however, shows many of the state's smallest...

Successful kidney transplants rely on the biological compatibility of the donor and recipient but still require long-term use of drugs to tamp down the recipient’s immune system and prevent donor organ rejection. Finding a method to increase compatibility can help...

Madison-based Exact Sciences, a provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, has entered into an agreement with Santa Clara, California-based Agilent Technologies to acquire one of its portfolio companies: Kirkland, Washington-based Resolution Biosciences....

Milwaukee-based financial services firm Baird has acquired a minority stake in Minneapolis-based Octavus Group, the parent company of LoCorr Funds. LoCorr Funds is headquartered in Excelsior, Minnesota and is a leader in low-correlating alternative investments. The...

Three advertising and marketing professionals with decades of experience at varying lifestyle agencies have joined forces to launch Moonshot, a new venture studio concept, here in southeastern Wisconsin. Ryan Chuckel, founder and chief executive officer of...

Aquatech International plans to more than double the size of its Hartland facility that focuses on technology for the battery-grade lithium chemical market with the help of a $4.7 million loan from the Export-Import Bank of the United States. The company will add...

Rockwell Automation agreed to acquire a Canadian company that makes autonomous mobile robots for industrial settings with model names including Warthog, Jackal, Dingo and Turtlebot. Rockwell called such robots the next frontier in industrial automation and...

Ohio insuretech firm Bold Penguin has inked its second national pro sports sponsorship since being acquired by American Family Insurance of Madison. The NFL's Cincinnati Bengals named the Columbus software maker its "Official Commercial Insurance Technology Partner."...

Linda Ceylor said she has cell reception on her organic dairy farm in Price County. It just depends on where you're standing. "Sometimes I'll be having a conversation, even in my house where I have a booster, and if I move to the left or move to the right, somebody...

On a Friday in August, Germantown software firm VBA’s leadership team learned the company secured a $156 million private-equity investment. The following day, a Saturday, chief technology officer Rich Pierce worked 20 hours. He was busy with technology projects the...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Patrick Sullivan, CEO, co-founder and co-inventor at Flux XII. Sullivan has spent the last few years as a graduate student researcher at UW-Madison, with a focus on battery chemistry, energy analysis and...

TitletownTech now has almost $100 million to invest in and attract early-stage startup companies and entrepreneurs to the Green Bay region. Its impact in its first five years of existence left even its founders and most ardent advocates in a bit of disbelief. “If when...