Mappix creating a social network for drone imagery

In an increasingly virtual world, the need for managing and storing data is crucial.  With the drone and virtual reality industries growing rapidly, Mappix might be the convenient management platform drone pilots and companies have been searching for. Madison-based Mappix

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Abacus uses innovative digital tools to streamline portfolio

As client preferences change and the pandemic’s future remains unknown, Wisconsin-based Abacus Architects is using innovative digital tools to streamline its portfolio. The 23-person architecture firm works on around 100 projects per year nationwide across a range of markets, including

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Wisconsin, distributors prepare for COVID-19 vaccine

Pharmaceutical wholesale distributors are preparing to meet the unique needs of each state in distributing a COVID-19 vaccine. Wisconsin and other states are playing a unique role in determining vaccine administration, according to Matt DiLoreto, vice president of government affairs

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Urban development panel says Milwaukee is set up for success post COVID

COVID-19 has accelerated some trends and interrupted others — setting Milwaukee up for success post pandemic, according to a panel of urban development leaders. The working-from-home phenomenon is one of those trends that’s accelerated, but it poses new challenges to Wisconsin’s largest city, the panel explained during a Metropolitan Milwaukee

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Streatery Program helps keep neighborhood cafe afloat

When the temperatures started to drop, Daisy Cafe & Cupcakery manager Kelly Knocke said the Atwood Avenue restaurant was anxious about how it would seat its guests in the elements. The cafe is one of several Madison businesses that had worked with the city’s Streatery Program to set up outdoor

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Talking Trade: China may see Biden as an improvement over Trump

China may view Joe Biden’s presidency as an improvement over the Trump Administration according to Talking Trade’s Kelvin Ma in his discussion of the recent election with WisPolitics.com’s Jeff Mayers…. Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have a subscription, please contact schmies@wispolitics.com for subscription options on the

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Mappix creating a social network for drone imagery

In an increasingly virtual world, the need for managing and storing data is crucial.  With the drone and virtual reality industries growing rapidly, Mappix might be the convenient management platform drone pilots and companies have been searching for. Madison-based Mappix aims to overcome the lack of data management in drone

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WCA report finds big gaps in broadband coverage in rural areas

A Wisconsin Counties Association report finds broadband is universal in cities and villages, but rural parts of the state have big gaps in coverage.  The research arm of WCA, Forward Analytics, released a report this week titled, “Broadband in Rural Wisconsin: Identifying Gaps, Highlighting Successes.” The report cites the most

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Varsity Venture Studio will help launch UW-Madison-based startups

UW-Madison, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and High Alpha Innovation are bringing a venture studio to campus. The studio provides startup capital and hands-on support to select business ideas sourced from faculty, students and staff.  “The goal of the studio is to launch scalable and venture-backed companies off our campus,”

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UnityPoint Health Meriter restricted by COVID-19 community spread

Community spread of COVID-19 has restricted UnityPoint Health Meriter Hospital’s capabilities, according to President and CEO Sue Erickson. Additional sick calls and staff staying home to monitor potential COVID-19 symptoms have forced Meriter to adjust some of its operations. The hospital is rescheduling elective surgeries that require overnight stays in

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MKE Tech Hub Coalition celebrates one-year anniversary

The Milwaukee Tech Hub Coalition is celebrating its one-year anniversary today, recognizing the past 12 months of an overarching theme: collaboration. Last year at this time, the Tech Hub kicked off with six initial founding members to come together around doubling the technology talent in the Milwaukee region. By today,

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Abacus uses innovative digital tools to streamline portfolio

As client preferences change and the pandemic’s future remains unknown, Wisconsin-based Abacus Architects is using innovative digital tools to streamline its portfolio. The 23-person architecture firm works on around 100 projects per year nationwide across a range of markets, including multi-family, health care, senior living, corporate and industrial. Eric Halbur,

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Marquette innovator-in-residence lays out key traits for innovation

The innovator-in-residence at Marquette University says many organizations that want to be innovative are missing some key structural traits that would help them accomplish that goal. Chuck Swoboda says the six traits that make up the “CIRCLE of innovation” — candor, initiative, resolve, courage, leadership and engagement — can be

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Foxconn protests WEDC decision that it’s ineligible for tax credits

Foxconn today objected to Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.’s determination that the company is ineligible for billions in tax incentives under a contract signed with former Gov. Scott Walker. In today’s objection letter to WEDC, Foxconn wrote it looks forward to continuing its discussions with WEDC in the coming weeks.  “Despite

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COVID, climate change response results from faulty communication, political division

Science communication experts see faulty science communication and political division as major determinants in the nation’s response to climate change and coronavirus. Kendra Pierre-Louis, a climate change reporter from Gimlet Media and UW-Madison Science Writer in Residence, and life sciences communication Prof. Dietram Scheufele headlined a university livestream titled “Climate

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Wisconsin, distributors prepare for COVID-19 vaccine

Pharmaceutical wholesale distributors are preparing to meet the unique needs of each state in distributing a COVID-19 vaccine. Wisconsin and other states are playing a unique role in determining vaccine administration, according to Matt DiLoreto, vice president of government affairs for the Healthcare Distribution Alliance (pictured above). HDA is a

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Haribo to build Wisconsin campus ‘as soon as possible’

Haribo of America will begin construction later this year on its gummi production campus in Pleasant Prairie. Construction on the 136.8-acre facility along I-94 is going to begin “as soon as possible” in 2020, according to Haribo’s release. It’s the largest project in the company’s 100-year history. “HARIBO is the

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