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Briggs & Stratton Corp. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Companhia Caetano Branco of Brazil for approximately $60 million, subject to post-closing adjustments.

Talgo Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the state of Wisconsin, alleging the state violated the commitments in a contract and has not paid for two high-speed trains that are sitting idle in the company's Milwaukee plant.

Kenosha plastic injection molder Xten Industries is adding a fourth shift so it can run 24/7 to keep up with growth.

The country will be slicing and dicing state and national election returns for weeks to try to figure out where all the chips will fall. Some of the voting dynamics will remain obscure for awhile, but other fall-outs seem relatively clear. Among them:

I've always liked the old words of wisdom: “Good fences make good neighbors.” The idea of people knowing where the boundaries are, and the responsibilities that are assigned to each side of the fence, holds true in the corporate world, too.

Jeff Karlson, a supervisor at Allis-Roller in Franklin, had much to share about his two-and-a-half-year timeframe with the company when we spoke recently. A member of Generation Y, Jeff is an exciting representation of what we see in so many organizations – members of the emerging workforce who are on fire for what they do.

Everyone knows that a nuclear blast unleashes the untold, near limitless power bottled up inside an infinitesimally small particle: the atom. We also know that the scientific community has figured out how to harness that power for amazing good and amazing destruction.

Steve Jobs co-founded Apple in his parents' garage in 1976.

U.S. consumer confidence is at its highest level in more than five years, led by brighter views on current conditions, according to the preliminary November reading of the University of Michigan/Thomson Reuters Consumer Sentiment Index.

If you thought that the move from the Industrial Era to the Digital Era was the last major economic...