(WisBusiness) FRI News Summary — 26 June 2009
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http://www.mge.com/ecodev/business/htd.htm
http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/06/08/daily82.html
http://wisbusiness.com/index.iml?Article=161905
http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.iml?Article=162142
http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.iml?Article=162143
http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20090624/CWS03/306240037/-1/WDH03/
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/biz/456136
http://www.jsonline.com/business/49048151.html
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Tech companies
UWM
Milwaukee Brewers marketing: As the Milwaukee Brewers have won on the field, they also have become big winners in the marketing field. The Turnkey Team Brand Index recently rated the Brewers 26th among 122 professional sports teams in branding. That was up from 37th a year ago. The club was ranked eighth among the 30 MLB...
UW-Whitewater: University-led consortium receives nearly $1 million grant from Institute of Museum and Library Services
Contact: Eileen Schroeder
(262) 472-2837
schroede@uww.edu
WHITEWATER Did it surprise you to learn that the street demonstrations in Iran were organized through Twitter?
The use of "social media" to communicate and to disseminate information is a sign of modern times and poses new challenges to schools and, particularly, school librarians charged with educating students to participate as citizens in a changing world.
So...
UW-Madison: Experts say big tobacco dead by 2047, possibly sooner
CONTACT: Moira Harrington, 608-265-4447, mh1@ctri.medicine.wisc.edu; Chris Hollenback, 608-262-3902, ch3@ctri.medicine.wisc.edu
MADISON - President Barack Obama's signature on a bill this week to grant the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over tobacco was historic, and represents a step in the march to eliminate tobacco use in this country by 2047, two national tobacco experts said today (June 25).
The pair...