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As the popular South by Southwest (SXSW) music, arts and technology festival kicks off Friday in Austin, Texas, Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson will be there to pitch Milwaukee as an innovative city for businesses and individuals to invest in or as a place to...

The Wisconsin Investment Fund, a new resource from WEDC, is providing $50 million to boost innovative, young businesses that could energize the state’s economy for years to come. The fund will partner with professional venture capital managers who will identify...

Fetch has launched its next-generation receipt-scanning technology, which improves accuracy with item recognition, product intelligence and enhances user experience, the company announced today. “Receipt understanding is a very complex problem,” Fetch Group President...

Milwaukee-based Rex Academy is leading the way in providing accessible STEM education. The company has created a partnership with University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) that will allow Rex Academy students to transfer up to six credits of coursework toward a Bachelor...

Hundreds gathered at First Congregational United Church of Christ in Madison today to honor the life and legacy of the late former UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank. Friends and family shared memories of her life filled with service and learning. They called out her...

Newsweek magazine recently unveiled its annual list of the World’s Best Hospitals, which includes its list of the 420 best hospitals in the Unites States. Newsweek and global data firm Statista create the rankings. This year they ranked more than 2,300 hospitals in 28...

Marquette University and Omron Automation Americas unveiled this week the Omron Advanced Automation Lab at Engineering Hall on the MU campus. The Omron Advanced Automation Lab was announced in June 2022 with Omron Automation Americas gifting the university more than...

The Wisconsin Investment Fund Committee met for the first time Friday morning, just over a week after Gov. Tony Evers unveiled plans for the new $50 million fund, funding which is coming from the federal government’s American Rescue Plan Act. The committee, which is...

On March 2, 2023, Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce hosted an event featuring a bipartisan group of state legislators representing Greater Madison - Sen. Melissa Agard (D-Madison), Rep. William Penterman (R-Columbus) and Rep. Shelia Stubbs (D-Madison) - for a...

Epic Systems Corp. is building two new office buildings as it looks to grow its workforce by 10% in 2023. The two new buildings, named Creatures and Guilds, will become the sixth and seventh buildings on the Wizards Academy cluster at the Verona-based medical software...

After more than a year of planning and development, the University of Wisconsin Integrative Health program officially opened the Osher Center for Integrative Health at University of Wisconsin‒Madison. The center will be funded through a $5.5 million endowment from the...

University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman will seek the first tuition increase for Wisconsin undergraduate students since state lawmakers initiated a freeze more than a decade ago. Rothman will ask the UW Board of Regents to approve a 5 percent increase...

It was a record year in 2022 for food, forestry and agriculture product exports from the state of Wisconsin. The latest U.S. Census trade data shows Wisconsin exported goods in the aforementioned categories to 142 countries totaling approximately $4.22 billion. This...

Summerfest Tech is returning for its sixth year with a new three-day format. This year’s event, being held June 26 through June 29, also has a new home at Potawatomi Casino|Hotel. Milwaukee World Festival Inc., the organization that runs Summerfest, attributes the...

The highly valued Madison startup Fetch is among nine Wisconsin firms on Inc.'s latest list of the fastest-growing private companies in the Midwest. Fetch, which makes a consumer rewards app, reported 407% revenue growth between 2019 and 2021, placing it at No. 2...

Gov. Tony Evers' proposed budget calls for the state to invest $750 million in broadband expansion over the next decade as Wisconsin could receive more than $1 billion from the federal government. Despite the infusion of federal dollars, the head of the Public Service...

From education to eye care to meat snacks, employers across Wisconsin will use more than $3.8 million in Wisconsin Fast Forward grants from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development to support worker training programs that put people on the path to employment...