“The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream”
Unemployment rates in the United States remain high, economic recovery is slow and American children are falling behind students in other parts of the world. Gary Shapiro, chief executive officer of the Consumer Electronics Association, thinks the American federal government has lost its way, and his book entitled: "The Comeback, How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream," provides a blueprint for readers on how to restore it.
Pizza from the valley
Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley has been a center for manufacturing for more than 100 years, and has been home to some of the city's best-known heavy industrial companies for much of that time.
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Based upon passenger traffic in 2010, Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport is the third-fastest growing airport in the world, trailing only the airports in Istanbul, Turkey, and Moscow, Russia.
Verizon Wireless boosts 3G capacity in Wisconsin
Basking Ridge, N.J.-based Verizon Wireless recently announced that it has completed a capacity improvement project for its 3G network in Wisconsin that it says increases the data capacity of the network by 40 percent across the state.
Is checking in checking out?
We saw a lot of buzz in 2010 around local check-ins on location-based services like Foursquare. After all, who doesn't want to earn a cool virtual badge, right? Or, perhaps more accurately who didn't – when it was all shiny and new?
Walker begins quest to create 250,000 jobs
Republican Scott Walker was sworn in on Jan. 3 as Wisconsin's 45th governor, replacing outgoing Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle.
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