Jeff Buchanan
Jeff joins Xconomy from The Monroe Times, where he covered crime and courts. He has contributed to Isthmus, Madison's alt-weekly newspaper, on topics such as municipal broadband, civic hacking, and data centers. Prior to being bit by the journalism bug, he worked in health IT at Epic.
He graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BA in political science and Spanish. In college he wrote for Vanderbilt View, a magazine covering the school's faculty and staff.
Recent posts
Shyft Technologies, a Seattle-based startup that has developed a software platform for retail and hospitality workers, and their employers, says it has raised $6.5 million in new funding to further develop... Read more »
The wait is finally over.
Amazon said Tuesday it plans to significantly expand its presence in the New York City and Washington, DC, metropolitan areas beginning next year. The announcement was... Read more »
Foxconn’s planned $10 billion electronic display factory in southeastern Wisconsin could be a boon for local workers vying for the potential 13,000 jobs. The facility could also be a headache for... Read more »
Invenra, a Madison, WI-based startup that develops therapeutic antibodies for pharmaceutical companies and other clients, has raised more than $7.1 million from investors, according to a regulatory filing.
Twenty-three... Read more »
Exact Sciences has gone from being a customer of Biomatrica, a San Diego-based vendor of equipment for storing and preserving blood and saliva samples, to now being the company’s owner.
Madison,... Read more »
Applied Systems, a Chicago-area company that sells its cloud-based software to groups in the insurance industry, announced Wednesday that it has acquired Dynamis Software. West Allis, WI-based Dynamis develops software that... Read more »
Gener8tor went north of the border to find some of the participants in its latest Wisconsin startup accelerator program.
The organization, which trains entrepreneurs and invests in some of the companies... Read more »
Technology and life sciences leaders say they’ll remember Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist, and investor who passed away Monday at age 65, as an “inspiration” whose work will impact the... Read more »
An agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Stratatech, a Madison, WI-based maker of human skin tissue, $26 million in new funding.
Stratatech, which is... Read more »
Byron Reese, the Gigaom publisher and successful entrepreneur who has written extensively on how technology impacts society, says he believes the biggest future breakthroughs are likely to come from universities and... Read more »
Ask someone “What’s on your phone?” and he or she might respond with some combination of photos, music, contacts, and mobile apps. But a series of interactive experiments co-led by a... Read more »
Understory, a Madison, WI-based weather technology startup, has raised more than $6.5 million in new equity funding from eight investors, according to a securities filing.
Understory operates networks of... Read more »
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals is licensing one of its drug candidates, a hepatitis B treatment, to a subsidiary of pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson in a cash and stock deal valued at $250... Read more »
Apptio, a Seattle-area company that helps corporate technology leaders manage their IT spending, said Wednesday that it has acquired FittedCloud, a Boston-based developer of cloud optimization software.
Apptio’s (NASDAQ: APTI)... Read more »
Asto CT, a startup developing a computed tomography (CT) device for performing diagnostic scans of animals, has raised nearly $1.1 million in new funding, according to a document filed with... Read more »
Apple has persuaded a federal appeals court to toss out a 2015 ruling that ordered the company to pay the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s technology transfer office $234 million for infringing a... Read more »
ImageMoverMD, a Madison, WI-based startup developing software applications that allow clinicians and patients to securely transmit pictures and videos taken with mobile devices, has raised $1.6 million from two investors,... Read more »
There’s a long list of products named after their inventors: everything from the diesel engine to Jacuzzi tubs to the leotard.
For years, the list had also included Reza Band, a... Read more »
TitleTownTech, a soon-to-be-launched joint venture between the NFL’s Green Bay Packers and tech giant Microsoft, has hit the brakes on a startup accelerator the two organizations had previously said they... Read more »
Catch up on news from Wisconsin’s innovation community with these recent headlines:
—The NFL’s Green Bay Packers said Craig Dickman has been named managing director of TitleTownTech, a joint venture... Read more »
