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New location helps homeowners and homebuyers better manage their wealth portfolios with options such as mortgage planning and FHA programs SUN PRAIRIE, Wis., Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation, a mortgage broker/banker with over 100 branches nationwide, has opened a new branch location in Auburn, Massachusetts. In an area that has been hit hard by the housing...

Unique Product from TRICAST Eliminates Annual Audits & Contentious Audit Recovery Attempts; Provides Ongoing Compliance MILWAUKEE, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- InvoiceCHECK, an innovative forensic prescription claims audit designed to verify PBM claims billings for each invoice, has been introduced by TRICAST. InvoiceCHECK replaces annual retrospective audits by auditing claims each time a company receives an invoice for its prescription benefit...

WAUKESHA, Wis., Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. consumers have greater faith in activists and retail grocers than either government or food companies when it comes to providing information about food choices. That's according to a new GfK Roper Public Affairs and Media survey commissioned by Morgan&Myers, a communications firm specializing in food and agriculture. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071205/AQW028A) Results from the national poll...

Potential federal legislation regulating CO2 emissions taken into account East Dubuque, IL--- Plans were suspended earlier this week to build a coal fired fuel conversion plant citing uncertainty over the cost of dealing with global warming emissions, according to Rentech company officials. Noting that the project’s original cost had not included technology to deal with global warming emissions, company officials pointed to potential...

MADISON - For the first time, scientists have used human embryonic stem cells to predict the toxic effects of drugs and provide chemical clues to diagnosing disease.Writing this week in the journal Stem Cells and Development, a team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison biologist Gabriela Cezar reports the use of all-purpose stem cells to elicit and identify the telltale...

Over $120,000 in new web revenue at KSFY Tremendous user response to San Diego wildfire submissions at KUSIDecember 6 2007, Madison, WI: Broadcast Interactive Media, the leading provider of web applications and revenue solutions for more than 120 TV and radio station websites, announced today that its local social networking and user-generated video application, YouNewsTV, is now live in 52...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON – Area businesses are heading into 2008 with both caution and optimism, according to a business survey released by the UW-Madison School of Business this morning. The report, sponsored by First Business Bank and the business school, said the majority of companies in the county were profitable this year, in...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON – Dane County continues to be an island of prosperity compared to other parts of the state, Mark Meloy, president of First Business Bank, said today. Meloy, who has worked in the Fox Valley and Milwaukee, spoke after the release of the First Business Economic Survey of Dane County Wednesday morning at the Fluno...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com REDE - the Regional Economic Development Entity representing the eight-county Madison region - is now "Thrive." The name change was announced this afternoon at the bi-annual meeting of the Collaboration Council at Monona Terrace, which brings together business, government, education and nonprofit leaders to discuss stewardship of the Madison Region. The counties represented by...

WisBusiness.com Putnam Roby Communications (PRc) will become Putnam Roby Williamson Communications on Jan. 1, 2008 when Mark Williamson, American Transmission Company’s vice president of major projects, becomes a full partner. As PRW Communications, the redesigned firm will continue its core mission of providing strategic and crisis communications, media relations, government affairs and creative services to its customers. But with Williamson...

WisBusiness.com MADISON - Carrie J. Thome is the new director of investments at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). Thome has served as interim director of the group since April. She joined WARF in 2001 as associate director of investments. In her new position, Thome manages a diverse investment portfolio worth an estimated $1.8 billion. Income and gains from the...

Despite gloomy national forecast for 2007, Dane County shows resilience to economic downturn and remains optimistic for recovery in 2008   The stock slide on Wall Street, the fallout in the housing market, and the surge in oil prices earlier this year painted a gloomy outlook – even possible recession – for 2007. Here in Dane County, despite all those...

MADISON - Carrie J. Thome has been named director of investments at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).Thome has served as interim director of the group since April. She joined WARF in 2001 as associate director of investments. In her new position, Thome manages a diverse investment portfolio worth an estimated $1.8 billion. Income and gains from the portfolio...