Medical Disability Beats Subprime Lending As Cause for Mortgage Foreclosure, COOL Keeps the Doors Open
MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--While news that nearly 20% of subprime borrowers are behind on their mortgage payments, the real threat to working class security is disability due to illness or injury.
A Project HOPE study, which examined reasons for personal bankruptcy, revealed that nearly 50% of respondents filed bankruptcy because of bills related to a major medical event. A full...
COUPLE’S $3 MILLION GIFT TO FUND UW-MADISON SCHOLARSHIPS
MADISON - One Madison-based couple is prepared to benefit University of Wisconsin-Madison students for years to come, thanks to their decision to speed up the timetable on a lifelong goal.G. Linn Roth and Jean Martinelli of Madison are friends of the campus who created a major charitable remainder unitrust to establish the Roth-Martinelli Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship, targeted to undergraduates...
Bruker AXS Announces Novel APEX™ DUO, the Most Versatile System For Small Molecule X-Ray Crystallography
Contact:
Michael Willett
978-663-3660, ext. 1411
Investor Relations and Public Relations Officer
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At the American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting Bruker AXS today announced the launch of the APEX™ DUO, the first single crystal diffractometer to feature instantaneous and automated X-ray wavelength change. The APEX DUO combines a molybdenum (Mo) sealed tube as well as a high-intensity, air-cooled copper (Cu) microfocus...
AARP the Magazine Announces Top Five Places to Live (And Retire)
Contact:
Michelle Alvarez
202-434-2555, 202-390-0032
malvarez@aarp.org
or Nancy Thompson
202-297-3106
nthompson@aarp.org, both of AARP
WASHINGTON, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What are the top places to live in for boomers 50+ looking for a great community to retire in? AARP The Magazine, the world's largest circulation magazine, today unveiled its annual list of the top five places to live in the U.S. with Atlanta, Beacon Hill in...
WSI Announces Combined Cockpit Weather and SIRIUS Satellite Radio
Contact:
Kristen Sullivan of WSI Corporation
978-983-6607
ksullivan@wsi.com;
or Sal Resendez of SIRIUS Satellite Radio
646-313-2405
sresendez@siriusradio.com
OSHKOSH, Wis. and ANDOVER, Mass., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- WSI Corporation ( http://www.wsi.com/ ) today announced the introduction of the new WSI InFlight(R) AV-300 datalink weather receiver and the all new AV-350, a cockpit weather system which will enable aircraft operators and owners to receive both WSI's...
Sonic Foundry Launches New Software-as-a-Service Model
Contact:
Erica St. Angel
Sonic Foundry Inc.
608-443-1620
ericas@sonicfoundry.com
MADISON, Wis., July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sonic Foundry(R) Inc. (NASDAQ:SOFO) , a leader in automated rich media communications technology, today announced the success of its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) pilot for rich media webcasting has resulted in a formal SaaS offering, Mediasite(R) Now, and the successful acquisition of new customers including Accenture, New York Law...
$23.2 Million Loan from Kennedy Funding Helps Developer Sink a Birdie on His Residential Golf Community
Contact:
David Green
201-288-7888
davidgreen@resultsinc.com
Kennedy Funding
LAKE GENEVA, Wis., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- George Wight of Wight Development Group owned several tracts of land in the city of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, a popular resort area. The various tracts totaled 226 acres of gently rolling meadows and forest, and included the Hilmoor Golf Course. And Wight had a plan that would eventually culminate in...
BIO Mid-America to Bring Biotech Companies and Investors Together for Partnering and Financing Opportunities
Contact:
Tracy Krughoff
202-962-9200
tkrughoff@bio.org
www.bio.org
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The BIO Mid-America VentureForum will bring together life science investors, CEOs, and business development executives in Milwaukee, Wis. on Sept. 24-26, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee. The conference, hosted by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), is the only venture conference in the Midwest showcasing biotech, biofuels and medical device venture stage product and platform companies.
The...
Midwest Health Care Startups Raise $726 Million in First Half of 2007
Contact:
BioEnterprise
Paul Nickels
216-658-3966 office
216-402-0510 mobile
pnickels@bioenterprise.com
www.bioenterprise.com
CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Midwest health care startups reported a stunning $726 million in total investments across 59 companies in the first half of 2007, according to the BioEnterprise Midwest Health Care Venture Investment Report. That investment level nearly equals investments for the entire calendar year 2006, which was a record year for the Midwest. Ohio, Minnesota, and Indiana...
