Technology

Waukesha-based Telkonet Inc. today reported second quarter net income of $523,511 or 0 cents per share, up from $219,085, or 0 cents per share, in the second quarter of 2014.

The AT&T Building in downtown Madison is still undergoing its $30 million renovations. Upon entering the dusty main floor, Brandon Pittser, marketing director for Filament Games, a 10-year-old educational video game company that relocated from Madison’s Atwood neighborhood to the building last month, makes a joke about the space resembling a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Brookfield-based Connecture Inc. reported a second quarter net loss of $4.3 million, or 20 cents lost per share, compared with $5.4 million, or $34.77 lost per share, in the second quarter of 2014.

M-WERC (Midwest Energy Research Consortium) has won a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration through its second annual Growth Accelerator Fund Competition.

Brookfield-based financial services technology provider Fiserv Inc. reported second quarter net income of $127 million, or 53 cents per share, down from $166 million, or 65 cents per share, in the second quarter of 2014.

The Milwaukee Institute, a nonprofit computational research center, will add to its computing offerings and facilitate more training courses with a $750,000 grant it has received from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.

Brookfield-based CC&N has promoted Jeff Van Domelen to president.

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Milwaukee-based ARI Network Services Inc. today announced that it has acquired Des Moines, Iowa-based Direct Communications Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

One of the enduring gripes about Wisconsin's startup and scale-up climate has been the lack of enough angel and venture capital.