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The Water Council has announced the first-round winners of its Tech Challenge, which aims to find new freshwater technology ideas that could be commercialized. Each has received $10,000 from the program’s corporate sponsors.

The city of Racine is one of five cities from the U.S. to win the Smart Cities Council's Smart Cities Readiness Challenge, a nationwide competition recognizing cities that demonstrate their commitment to becoming a smart city.

Contracts to help build Foxconn Technology Group's planned flat-screen manufacturing complex in Mount Pleasant will be awarded in quick succession beginning this spring, a leader of the company's construction management team said Wednesday.

Foxconn Technology Group announced contracts totaling nearly $34 million to five Wisconsin companies for utility and road work at the site of Foxconn's planned manufacturing complex.      

Jason Franklin has been hired to manage the Wisconn Valley Venture Fund, the $100 million startup investment vehicle launched by four major corporations last summer.

Milwaukee has won its bid for the 2020 Democratic National Convention. The convention is scheduled for July 13-16, 2020.

Germany-based global health care company Fresenius Kabi is planning to set up shop in a proposed 590,525-square-foot manufacturing facility in the new Stateline 94 Corporate Park in Pleasant Prairie.

An affiliate of an Italian zinc die casting company that announced plans for a U.S. facility has purchased a building on Milwaukee’s northwest side.