THE NEWSROOM

After a two-year hiatus, the Future 50 program returned this year to recognize the fastest growing privately-owned businesses in southeastern Wisconsin. BizTimes Media celebrated all 50 companies during a luncheon Thursday, including announcing the five fastest...

Among the stars on the faculty of the Medical College of Wisconsin, you’ll find John Kirby, PhD, the Walter Schroeder Professor in Microbiology and Immunology. Dr. Kirby and his team are engaged in leading edge research about how metabolic imbalances impact health....

Milwaukee-based Clinical Edge, a provider of visual acuity examiners and certification services, has been acquired by Rockville, Maryland-based The Emmes Company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Emmes is a global, full-service clinical research organization...

The board of directors for the Milwaukee Regional Innovation Center has appointed Mark Johnson to succeed Guy Mascari as executive director. Johnson will manage the operations of the Milwaukee County Research Park and the Technology Innovation Center, the Research...

Forbes magazine has released its annual list of the 400 wealthiest Americans. This year, Wisconsin has seven billionaires on the Forbes 400 list. The Wisconsinites on the list include: #42, John Menard Jr., 82, of Eau Claire. He has a net worth $17 billion, up 2.4%...

London-based Deloitte has announced its annual Deloitte Wisconsin 75 list of the state’s largest privately-held companies. To qualify, companies must be headquartered in Wisconsin and must have a majority ownership (more than 5%) by individuals, family, employee stock...

The Northwestern Mutual Black Founder Accelerator (NMBFA) is officially back for a second year with a new cohort of five tech startups. The 12-week accelerator is open to Black entrepreneurs throughout the U.S. in the fintech, digital health, insurtech or data...

Cellectar Biosciences has been awarded $1.98 million in additional grant funding by the National Institute of Health’s National Cancer Institute (NCI), the company announced today. According to a release, the grant will expand Cellectar’s ongoing Phase 1 study of...

A Green Bay-based wireless company proposes to extend high-speed internet to thousands of properties in rural Brown County where service is slow, and place a cap on monthly rates. But to make it happen, the company is asking for a nearly $30 million loan that would be...

In a move to attract more research funding through industry sponsorships and increase the number of university inventions that get commercialized, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is streamlining its licensing process with a new program called Panther Partnering....

Harley-Davidson Inc. completed a spinoff of its electric motorcycle division LiveWire EV LLC, which was slated to begin trading Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction, which was announced in December 2021, involved AEA-Bridges Impact Corp. (NYSE:...

Gov. Tony Evers today said he wants the Legislature to increase funding for arts programs at UW System campuses to attract more workers to the state. The Dem guv, responding to student questions at a roundtable event at UW-Milwaukee, said it'll be a "hard sell" to get...

Gov. Tony Evers today joined leaders from SSM Health and the Ripon community for a ribbon cutting celebrating the new mental health outpatient Day Stabilization Services at SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital. The new unit will provide assistance, services, and...

ABC Supply Co. Inc. of Beloit has about 800 locations in the U.S. now, and is working to set up what would become its first in the city of Milwaukee. The building materials supplier gained an endorsement Monday from Milwaukee’s Plan Commission to set up a warehousing...

When Rob Summerfield first ran for the state Legislature in 2016 and began door-knocking in rural Chippewa and Dunn counties, he heard from several people who said it would be “nice” to have improved broadband and internet connections. By 2018, “nice” had been...

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture will host a Global Dairy Symposium at World Dairy Expo this fall. The forum will be held on October 6 from 9:00 a.m. to noon at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison. Presenters will share information on trends in production,...

A new area code is coming to south central and southwest Wisconsin. The change will eventually affect people getting new telephone numbers in the region currently served by area code 608 — a vast swath that includes Madison, La Crosse, Janesville, Beloit and the...

Two researchers at UW-River Falls have been awarded a $250,000 grant to explore the impacts of dairy farms adopting robotic milking technologies. According to a release from the university, Luis Peña-Lévano and Shaheer Burney from UW-River Falls’ Agricultural...