THE NEWSROOM

The Versiti Blood Research Institute’s planned expansion in Wauwatosa could bring more than 100 new jobs to the area. That’s according to Chris Miskel, president and CEO of Versiti. In a recent interview, he discussed the research institute’s plans for adding 65,000...

Hartland-based AI startup Wearable Technologies and Mequon-based MediCardia Health have announced a strategic partnership between aimed at revolutionizing cardiac chronic condition management and remote patient monitoring. Wearable Technologies has created a wearable...

The second cohort of an agriculture technology accelerator has brought companies from Wisconsin and Silicon Valley to Alabama. HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, in partnership with Wisconsin-based global venture firm and startup accelerator gener8tor, will host...

Overview Every year worldwide, millions of people experience morbidity and mortality as a consequence of severe fungal disease. In the United States, mortality from invasive fungal disease is approximately 50 percent. People with AIDS, chemotherapy patients, and...

Exact Sciences Corp. (NASDAQ: EXAS), a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, today announced positive top-line results from the pivotal BLUE-C study. The results show that next-generation Cologuard® met all study endpoints and improved every...

Rent College Pads, a countrywide housing platform for students, is launching its end-to-end property management arm College Pads Pro on Aug.1. The Milwaukee-based company at 1101 N. Market St. started as CEO Dominic Anzalone's college project in 2012. It's since...

Holos Inc., a Madison firm founded to develop virtual reality and augmented reality education software for classrooms, has been awarded a $1.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force following up on the firm’s 2019 contract to help the Air Force develop VR...

While the average person is only just beginning to realize the potential impacts of artificial intelligence, scientists across the globe have long been researching how the technology can improve – and perhaps even revolutionize – a wide array of processes and fields....

There is no bigger topic of conversation this year for technologists than artificial intelligence. The rapid, exponential growth of AI, specifically generative AI, has caused such alarm that the San Francisco-based Center for AI Safety issued a statement last month...

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded a $14.89 million Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Grant to Dairyland Power Cooperative to expand internet access in underserved rural communities. Dairyland applied for the grant in...

Wisconsin lost 7,000 private sector jobs in May but the state’s labor force participation rate improved and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 2.4%, on a seasonally-adjusted basis, according to the latest figures from the state Department of Workforce Development....

Microsoft Corp. anticipates 200 jobs for the $1 billion first phase of its data center development in Mount Pleasant, but could add 460 more over time. Those numbers made public Friday are the first detailed job projections for Microsoft’s data center project, and...

A Madison startup’s quest to push the bounds of clean industrial energy through nuclear fusion has just gained federal backing in the form of a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The federal money, in concert with another $9 million in venture...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Dayne Rusch, a Green Bay-area entrepreneur who launched startup companies Vyper Industrial and Vyper Energy. Vyper Industrial makes chairs for industrial shop environments and other customers. Since getting...

Chad Tjugum, a sophomore in the entrepreneurship program at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater College of Business and Economics has been awarded a $15,000 fourth place in the Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge e-Fest to fund a business venture called Rarities...