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An elite group of pro athletes, including Aaron Rodgers and Khris Middleton, has invested in farmland, organic foods, truck accessories, Elon Musk's Space X, and many other fields, to parlay their hefty salaries into fortunes beyond sports. Middleton, a Milwaukee...

Newly launched Milwaukee startup Aeroplicity Inc. has created a blockchain-based aerospace and defense platform geared toward small and medium-sized businesses. The company’s “Traceability” application allows businesses to create digital twins of their documents,...

An economist with Kansas-based Armada Corporate Intelligence says expectations for a coming recession have softened. Speaking yesterday during a webinar hosted by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce’s World Trade Association, Chris Kuehl highlighted a...

Rockwell Automation increased its top and bottom-line outlook for its 2023 fiscal year, citing a gradual improvement in supply chains. The Milwaukee-based maker of automation equipment and software now expects its reported sales to increase between 10% and 14% for the...

The Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center (WHAIC) is launching a modern redesign to its PricePoint tool enabling consumers, patients, and other users to easily access and compare pricing information of health care services across the state. The cornerstone...

The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is launching SizeUpWI, a new big data intelligence tool to help small and midsize businesses — a group that collectively represents almost 99% of our state’s economy — thrive and grow by making sound strategic business...

Rockwell Automation Inc. continues capitalizing on the alternative energy industry’s expansion, winning projects at new plants for solar panel manufacturer First Solar Inc., including a $1 billion factory planned for the southeastern United States. Rockwell’s work for...

Urban League of Greater Madison, Urban Triage and the Center for Black Excellence and Culture headlined a list of 2022 grant recipients from Madison Community Foundation. The three organizations combined for about half of the $697,500 in money from the community...

On the heels of his 2023 State of the State address announcement of more than $190 million in investments to bolster Wisconsin's workforce, Gov. Tony Evers and Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Secretary Amy Pechacek today announced a new "Winning...

The head of the Wisconsin Bankers Association says inflation is causing deposits to slow. In a recent interview, WBA President and CEO Rose Oswald Poels explained deposit levels were “extremely high” during the COVID-19 pandemic due to various factors. Some customers...

A new industry survey shows the majority of Wisconsin businesses worry the state is headed toward a recession, but economists are less certain. Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce released the results of a survey of 164 employers from various industries last week....

Wauwatosa-based GenoPalate, Inc., a nutritional genomics company, is now offering its customers a line of personalized supplements to support their unique health needs. The new line, called GenoVit, gives customers a cost-effective solution to increase their vitamin...

Milwaukee-based Health Payment Systems, Inc. (HPS) and PayMedix, a health care payment processing system, announced this week it has closed a $25 million funding round that will be used to help accelerate the company’s growth. Milwaukee-based Hexagon...

Smart Scan Medical Imaging has opened its doors for business at 3004 Golf Road in Eau Claire WI. Smart Scan offers state of the art MR Imaging at their independent clinics, using new GE Voyager 1.5 Tesla Wide Bore scanners. Dr Jeffrey Rosengarten is the President and...

An alternative may be coming to the costly, annual dredging that has been used to keep sand from clogging up Lake Altoona. The Lake Altoona District has been gifted $1.2 million worth of equipment that passively filters sand out of river water and moves it off-site....