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Milwaukee, WI – Re Ink, LLC., has developed an online service for local college students to buy and sell textbooks online with virtually no fees associated. The website, BkBid.com, is a free online service using an auction format allowing students to list books they want to sell=2 0and bid on texts they need for upcoming classes. Long-standing conventional methods of...

MADISON, WI – Centrose LLC, a company focused on “making drugs better” through the use of novel sugar chemistry, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued yet another patent (7,479,385) that the company exclusively licensed through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). The patent entitled “SUGAR KINASES WITH...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- State sales tax collections for the month of December 2008 fell 3.8 percent, or nearly $12 million, over the the same month last year, according to data released by the Department of Revenue. For the year-to-date, sales tax is down 2.2 percent over the previous year. Overall GPR collections for December fell 7.4 percent, but year...

By WisBusiness staff In a new survey, state bankers say low interest rates will spur a modest uptick in new and refinanced residential mortgages during the first six months of 2009. But overall, a majority of bankers rate the Wisconsin economy as just "fair" and 90 percent believe conditions are still weakening. Those results are from the latest edition of...