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ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AAI) , today announced that the company believes Milwaukee is an under-served market when it comes to the current level of commercial air service available to travelers choosing General Mitchell International Airport and that, by combining Midwest Airlines with AirTran Airways, the Milwaukee service level...

MADISON, Wis., Dec. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Third Wave Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:TWTI) today announced that it has closed on the previously announced sale of convertible senior subordinated zero-coupon notes with an institutional investor. The notes were sold at an original issue discount and will provide Third Wave with gross proceeds of approximately $14.9 million, exclusive of fees. The notes were placed...

CEDARBURG, Wis., Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Raffel Comfort Sciences, a creator of innovative sleep, massage and other comfort products is very pleased to announce the appointment of Michael R. Schuster to the position of Vice President Sales for Consumer Products. Raffel develops and manufactures consumer products under the Tranquil Ease brand. The appointment is the first in Raffel's sales...

MADISON, Wis., Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sonic Foundry(R), Inc. (NASDAQ:SOFO) , a leader in automated rich media communications technology, today announced that it priced a public offering of 3,000,000 shares of its common stock at $3.75 per share to the public. The public offering of the shares is expected to close on December 27, 2006. Robert W. Baird & Co....

Milwaukee, Wis. (December 21, 2006) –  Two Milwaukee institutions, The Milwaukee Mile and Briggs & Stratton, have once again teamed up as corporate partners for the upcoming 2007 racing season at the historic speedway.   The Milwaukee Mile held it’s first auto race in 1903 – over a century ago – making it the world’s oldest active motor speedway.  Briggs &...

A new report shows that more than 1,100 seniors and people with disabilities moved out of nursing homes and residential care facilities and back into home and community-based care during the last fiscal year.  The report shows the success of Governor Doyle's initiative to give people more affordable and flexible long term care options - helping them live more...

By Bree Andersen WisBusiness.com APPLETON -- When Jayne Quintero would go shopping at the beginning of the school year for her children, she was usually disappointed with the offering of art smocks. Plastic smocks available in stores don’t hold up, she says, and younger often kids won’t wear “uncool” hand-me-downs from parents or siblings. Quintero was inspired to design...

MADISON – Earlier than usual, the Department of Revenue, the Department of Financial Institutions and the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, warn of a new tactic some tax preparation firms are using to lure new customers into high cost advancement loans well before tax season begins.  The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau also has announced recently that Advanced...

MADISON - Using neural stem cells derived from the fetal brains of rats, a team ofWisconsin scientists has devised a rudimentary blood-brain barrier in the lab.Writing this week (Dec. 19) in the online editions of the Journal of Neurochemistry,a group led by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of chemical and biologicalengineering Eric V. Shusta describes an experiment in which nascent...