Inventors of an app that tells residents how to follow city guidelines for recycling, a wireless audiovisual system, and a device that detects unseen hazards for truck drivers, are receiving seed money to build their products after winning their respective startup...
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Local students experience ‘10,300 hours of code’
Milwaukee-area students were taught 10,300 hours of code as a part of Milwaukee’s “Hour of Code,” a NEWaukee and Milwaukee Tech Hub Coalition initiative that promotes tech skills among the youth. The Hour Code runs during Computer Science Week, which is Dec. 9 to Dec....
Foxconn Says it Can’t Find Workers
A Foxconn executive says the company has been unable to recruit employees necessary for its development project in Wisconsin. Alan Yeung, Foxconn’s director of United States Strategic Initiatives, said the company has traveled across the country, “from North Carolina,...
American Family Insurance announces $50,000 program for k-12 students at Sherman Phoenix
American Family Insurance is offering $50,000 to support the STEAM & Dream program at Milwaukee’s Sherman Phoenix, which would be a program to support K-12 students and young adults interested in science, technology, engineering, arts and math.
20 Wisconsin Startups to Watch in 2020
Each year, Wisconsin Inno hits the pause button on the daily startup news grind to look ahead at the companies poised to make headlines in the year to come. On our annual Startups to Watch list, we outline a handful of Wisconsin startup companies that we feel could...
20 Wisconsin Startups to Watch in 2020
Each year, Wisconsin Inno hits the pause button on the daily startup news grind to look ahead at the companies poised to make headlines in the year to come. On our annual Startups to Watch list, we outline a handful of Wisconsin startup companies that we feel could...
This Is Milwaukee: A City on the Rise Gets Real
Milwaukee is not a perfect city.Milwaukee is a city of extremes. There are brutal winters and sticky, sweltering summers. There are shiny new arenas and condos. There are racial wounds — some of which are healing, some of which are still fresh. There are revitalized...
Foxconn confident it has enough jobs to get tax credits for this year, but last year many were disqualified
Foxconn Technology Group now has more than 520 Wisconsin employees — the threshold number needed to qualify for state tax credits, a key executive says. If so, it would be a turnaround from last year, when the company fell well short of the minimum required to collect...
Milwaukee Developers Launch Foresight, a New VR/AR Company
In the ever-evolving universe of augmented reality and virtual reality, two Milwaukee-area developers are focused on bringing the experiential technology a little closer to earth. Business co-owners Jeff Fleetwood and Hector Borges have recently launched Foresight, an...
Milwaukee’s dockless e-scooter pilot comes to a close; DPW to evaluate public feedback
All three electric scooter companies participating in Milwaukee's dockless scooter pilot program have chosen to end operations for the remainder of 2019, bringing to a close the six-month testing period in which more than one-third of a million rides were taken on...