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DFI to Facilitate Event Held at Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Madison) The 50 attendees at the Credit and Money Session of the National Institute of Financial and Economic Literacy (NIFEL) will travel to Chicago this week to take part in the first-ever listening session of the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy (PACFL). The information-gathering session...

MILWAUKEE, WI (August 5, 2008)—“Is Your Company’s Non-Compete Agreement Worth The Paper It Is Written On?” is the topic of a free seminar Wednesday, September 10, 2008, at the Brookfield Suites Hotel, 1200 S. Moorland Rd., Brookfield. Two attorneys from DeWitt Ross & Stevens will present information from 8 to 9 a.m. Continental breakfast and registration begins...

New Online Groups Allow REALTORS® to Build Business Connections Quickly and Conveniently Madison –The WRA has today announced the launch of its new Facebook and LinkedIn online community groups. The new groups, designed to enhance communications between REALTORS® and the state association, give members exclusive access to WRA content and an opportunity to develop professional connections online. Social networking Web sites...

One year after the collapse of Minneapolis' I-35W bridge brought home the need for safer, more durable bridges and faster, less expensive bridge repair, a series of Wisconsin projects is marking significant progress toward those goals. The bridge designs developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers in cooperation with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT) include new techniques and materials that...

Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar (in Madison and Brookfield) has unveiled a new mobile Web site – m.flemings100.com – where visitors can get instant access to The Fleming’s List of 100 wines by the glass via their mobile phone or handheld device. The site also features a full menu, location search box by zip code and...

Self-Funded Companies Beat Market Trend -- See Cumulative 2-Year Decrease of 9% in Costs, $32 Million in Savings MILWAUKEE –- Business Health Care Group (BHCG) self-funded member companies saw a 2-year aggregate decrease of 9 percent per health plan member when compared to 2005 base year costs. In 2007 the self-funded member companies experienced a 6.1 percent increase in medical costs (prior to...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- Most of the 115 businesses in the University Research Park on the Capital City’s west side are biotech companies that require wet labs for their ongoing experiments and product development. But in the research’s park urban expansion in the former Marquip Building at 1245 E. Washington Ave., the targets for the 10 new incubator...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON – Most of the 115 businesses in the University Research Park on the Capital City’s west side are biotech companies that require wet labs for their ongoing experiments and product development. But in the research’s park urban expansion in the former Marquip Building at 1245 E. Washington Ave., the targets for the 10...

Breakthrough specification-based monitoring approach from University of Wisconsin research provides signature-less real time protection against emerging and unknown threats MADISON, Wis., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- NovaShield, Inc., leader in advanced anti-malware technology, today announced the availability of NovaShield AntiMalware version 2.0, a cutting-edge behavior-based security software for Windows XP and Windows Vista designed specifically to detect, block, and remove...

MANITOWOC, Wis., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Manitowoc Company, Inc. (NYSE:MTW) today announced that it has signed a definitive purchase agreement to sell the stock of its Marine segment to Fincantieri Marine Group Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Fincantieri - Cantieri Navali Italiani SpA (Fincantieri). Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT) has agreed to be a minority investor with Fincantieri in...