Wisconsin Technology News

Google's flirtation with being a hardware company is over
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Inside Wisconsin: A trip to the mountaintop: Connecting the dots between health and well-being
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It’s not easy being the Dalai Lama. Not only are you handpicked for the job at age two, with no real choice to become a firefighter, artist or cowboy, but you spend much of the rest of your life–at least, this reincarnation–answering the unanswerable. Such was the“what-is-the-meaning-of-life”tone of a Madison discussion with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, at which six experts on human well-being sought to engage him on some of the mysteries of what it means to be a happy, healthy inhabitant of the planet.

How cloud computing will save Hollywood
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CIO Executive Edge: Executives need digitally different thinking
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Digital technology is on the mind of every executive from Sales and Marketing to IT and Operations. Executives concentrate many of these thoughts center around issues of responsibility, authority and budget rather than looking at what is possible, profitable and the other potentials of digital technology. It is a narrow mindset driven by the language of finance rather than the logic of value.

Sorry, IT still doesn't do attitude adjustments
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Wisconsin Tech Industry employs 86,000 in 2012
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The number of jobs in Wisconsin's technology industry grew 1 percent in 2012, just a little under the rate for the national techsector, according to a new report from the TechAmerica Foundation. The foundation, which is the nonprofit arm of U.S. industry group TechAmerica, said in its annual Cyberstates report that Wisconsin tech sector added 800 jobs in 2012, with the total workforce numbering 85,200 people.

Mostashari urges healthcare change
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“It’s systems that let ordinary people do extraordinary things,”national coordinator for health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD said during a Health IT Policy Committee meeting talk that vice chair Paul Tang described immediately afterward as“inspiring and challenging.”

Building a better tech school
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Guest Column: Understanding the Limits of Convertible Debt Seed Financing Structures
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While Convertible Debt with a“kicker”of some sort (typically either in the form of warrants or a discount on the conversion price) was first used primarily as a structure for bridging companies between rounds of traditional venture capital financing, more recently it has become a popular vehicle for seed financing in advance of the first (“A”) round of venture investment. The structure offers two major plusses for entrepreneurs and investors.

How we can realize Health ITÂ’s full potential by looking at its setbacks
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