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The high-tech market is flooded with new mobile devices, tablets and touch screen devices nearly every day, and yet, doing a group presentation or video conferencing on a tablet for business still isn't exactly easy.

There has been a lot of speculation about China having reached the Lewis Turning Point; the theoretical point when excess labor dries up and rapid increases in wages drives prices and inflation

Oregon, Wis.-based Gorman & Company recently began construction on a $19 million project to transform the former Brew House building and Mill House building, located at the former Pabst brewery complex in downtown Milwaukee, into a 90-room hotel.

Business owners spend a lifetime building a legacy only to risk having it swiped away because of a failure to plan. That's why estate planning, especially in an uncertain economy, is essential for business owners. The problems that businesses face upon an owner's death include lack of a succession plan or a market for the company. Even worse, the business may be the asset that triggers estate tax exposure. As a result, the business is all too often sold in a fire sale for less than full consideration because the estate needs funds to pay taxes on the business itself. The IRS will value the company at full fair market value the instant before the business owner passed away.

As a patent attorney at the law firm of Davis & Kuelthau, S.C. in Milwaukee, Joseph Heino has published numerous articles in professional journals and has done a large amount of technical writing.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee announced that Vincent Lyles, current president of M&I Community Development Corp. (CDC), has been named president and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, effective Jan. 2, 2012.

Amazon.com, Bloomberg, Eurostar, Pixar and other companies have all done it. They've defied the unsteady economy and created a product that people can't resist and competitors can't copy.

Petersen Products Company thrives under pressure.

4 million Apple Inc. sold more than 4 million 4S iPhones in the opening weekend of sales,...

Tony Enea Ruvin Bros. Artisans & Trades President 8601 N. 43rd St. Brown Deer, WI 53209...