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By Brian E. Clark RISING "Famous Dave" Anderson Entrepreneur Dave Anderson, the 54-year-old founder of Famous Dave’s barbecue restaurant chain, and Grand Casinos, a casino management company, have jumped into the waterpark business with the opening of the Keylime Resort in Gurnee, Ill., a northern Chicago suburb that is also home to a big amusement park. Anderson, who started his restaurant business in 1994 in northern Wisconsin's...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- As economic growth weakens, Wisconsin personal income growth will slow to 3.8 percent this year and 4 percent next year, down from gains of near 5.3 percent in 2006 and about the same amount in 2007, according to the Wisconsin Quarterly Economic Outlook. The report, issued by the state Department of Revenue, predicted Wisconsin’s...

Successful international Web site launches in America's Dairyland, offering online directions for residents and tourists in Madison and Milwaukee NEW YORK, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- PublicRoutes.com, the first international Web resource for public transportation and driving directions, today announced the launch of a complete resource for navigating throughout the entire metropolitan areas of Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Originally launched in...

New specification-based monitoring approach to catch most sophisticated emerging threats MADISON, Wis., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- NovaShield, Inc., a leader in advanced anti-malware technology, today announced it has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). This competitive Phase II grant for $500,000 will be used to continue commercialization of NovaShield's breakthrough...

MILWAUKEE, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Controls, a U.S.-Fortune 67 company that creates smart environments for vehicles, homes and workplaces, has been recognized as one of the world's leading companies for sustainability by Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070930/AQSU001LOGO) SAM and PWC publish an annual Sustainability Yearbook that reflects their assessment of more than 1,000 companies from 57...

On-demand webcasts feature keynote presentations by technology leaders MADISON, Wis., March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ:SOFO) , the recognized market leader for rich media communications and knowledge management, announced today the company is the Live Learning Center sponsor of the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) 2008 TechKnowledge(R) Conference and EXPO, with the company's Event Services...