Technology

Internet security experts are warning consumers about a “Facebook Black” scam that is quickly and widely spreading across the World Wide Web.

The Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce Inc. presents will present its 2013 Black Business & Technology Conference June 22-23 at the Wisconsin African American Women's Center and at the Milwaukee Brotherhood of Fire Fighters Hall.

Milwaukee-based ARI Network Services Inc., a provider of software and data solutions, announced it has entered into definitive agreements with investors in a private placement of $4.8 million of its common stock at a purchase price of $1.50 per share.

The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation certified four Wisconsin companies for Early Stage Business Investment tax credits in late February. EASENET, a sustainable energy start-up venture co-founded by Navy veteran Jeremy Anderson that bases its operations at Bucketworks in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood, was one of the four recipients.

As the heat of a fire started raising the temperatures on the computer systems at the Echo Lake Foods plant in Burlington, Jan. 30, technicians at Xenitel, a Waukesha information technology (IT) service company, took quick action to preserve the plant's data.

The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. (WEDC) and the Milwaukee-based Water Council today announced a seed accelerator program to assist water technology startup firms in Wisconsin.

When business partners Dave Sachse and Justin Webb head to the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, on Friday, March 8, they'll be following in the footsteps of some of the most successful startup companies to date – including social media platforms Foursquare and Twitter.

AT&T Inc. said today that it invested nearly $300 million in its Milwaukee area wireless and wireline networks from 2010 through 2012, with a focus on expanding 4G LTE mobile Internet coverage and enhancing the overall performance of its networks.

Telephone and Data Systems Inc., the Chicago-based parent company of Madison-based TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS Telecom), announced an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Baja Broadband LLC, a cable company headquartered in Alamogordo, N.M., for a purchase price of $267.5 million, subject to working capital and other adjustments.

For those businesses focused on maximizing the effectiveness of their website, gone are the days of simply considering search engine optimization (SEO) and online ads. An increasing number of smart organizations are recognizing that by applying lessons learned from social to their website, they stand to improve traffic and, ultimately, its effectiveness.