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By Christine Fox For WisBusiness.com MADISON – A new software application, designed to help professionals manage pertinent client relationship information, will soon hit the market for small businesses. The product allows users to track breaking news on their contacts and respond using intelligence that relates to the individual. The startup company, mendotasoft LLC, has developed the product as a...

Milwaukee, Wis. – The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau is issuing an alert regarding a current work-at-home scam using a well-known charity, Habitat for Humanity. The Wisconsin BBB was notified by a consumer who answered an advertisement in her local newspaper for a work-at-home job as a Regional Donations Coordinator for Habitat for Humanity International. She applied for the job via...

Madison, Wis., April 20, 2009—Madison Gas and Electric's (MGE) Green Power Tomorrow Program has the second highest participation rate of all investor-owned utilities according to an annual assessment by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewal Energy Laboratory (NREL). MGE's program also is ranked sixth of all utilities in green power sales as a percentage of total retail electricity...

CONTACT: Steven Skroch, 414-840-5807, spskroch@wisc.edu MADISON - Steven Skroch, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student in biomedical engineering, is one of five students nationwide chosen to help inaugurate an international program in entrepreneurship by the Kansas City-based Kauffman Foundation. Skroch was chosen from among 160 applicants nationwide and will participate in a five-month program in Singapore to learn about the Asian...

CONTACT: Severino Albuquerque, 608-262-2528, sjalbuqu@wisc.edu MADISON - The University of Wisconsin-Madison Brazil Initiative will bring faculty and alumni together with private foundations, Wisconsin businesses and state agencies to help the state better understand and engage with this emerging global economy. It follows the success of the China and India initiatives, launched in 2006 and 2007, respectively. The launch coincides with...

Contact: Dick Jones, Agency Liaison, 608-267-4780 On the web: http://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dwd/newsreleases/2009/042009_recovery_jcow_exec_order.pdf Executive order requires recovery project contractors to use site, post openings MADISON – In a move to help the unemployed find work and get the economy back on track, Governor Jim Doyle today announced an executive order requiring all contractors and subcontractors involved in recovery projects to post job openings on JobCenterofWisconsin.com,...

CONTACT: Karin Borgh, 608-277-2508, karin.borgh@BTCI.ORG MADISON - Sustainability will be the focus of the eighth annual International Bioethics Forum to be held in Madison Thursday and Friday, April 23 and 24. The forum, sponsored jointly by the BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute (BTCI), Promega Corp. and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, is intended to provide the public with access to accurate scientific...

EDITOR'S NOTE: View and download a video of Wilson using the brain-computer interface to post to Twitter at http://nitrolab.engr.wisc.edu/media/P3Twitter.mov CONTACT: Adam Wilson, jadamwilson2@gmail.com; Justin Williams, 608-265-3952, jwilliams@engr.wisc.edu MADISON - In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter - just by thinking about it. Just 23 characters long, his message, "using EEG to send tweet,"...

Media Contact: Scott Reigstad (608) 458-3145 Rural Waunakee/DeForest dairy farm given Shared Savings Award for energy conservation and being green MADISON, WI – April 20, 2009 – Maier Farms, a dairy farm located near Waunakee and DeForest, has received a Shared Savings Award in recognition of significant achievement in energy efficiency and conservation. The award was presented to the dairy...

CONTACT Lisa Ninmer 414-319-5700 lisaninmer@zizzogroup.com MILWAUKEE -- Zizzo Group Advertising and Public Relations (ZGA+PR) -- the region’s most fearless, results-driven, integrated marketing firm -- announced that it has been selected as the agency of record and official marketing sponsor for UPAF, the United Performing Arts Fund. UPAF raises and allocates funds to over 36 performing arts groups throughout southeastern Wisconsin through annual, community-wide campaigns....

On March 31st, Dane County Circuit Judge C. William Foust rendered a decision in the Adams Outdoor Advertising v. City of Madison billboard tax assessment case in favor of Adams Outdoor Advertising. The decision is the third victory for Adams Outdoor Advertising in its lawsuit which was initially brought in 2002. The lawsuit challenged the City of Madison’s value...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- The WisBusiness.com index of Wisconsin-related stocks begins the week at just over 1,359 -- up about 20 points from last week's starting point. One of Friday's big Wisconsin winners was M&I Bank of Milwaukee, whose stock rose about 13 percent. The bank has scheduled its first quarter earnings release for Thursday, and some big banks...