Technology

Briggs & Stratton Corp. has begun a phased rollout of placing quick response (QR) code labels on its small engines.

In the business world, virtual platforms such as blogging, commenting, tagging, emailing, texting and video chatting have all become normal channels of communication. Executives who have yet to embrace the new forms of communication risk leaving opportunities behind.

One thing many small businesses have to deal with is people, especially anonymous people, posting nasty stuff about them online. While you can't really stop it, you can absolutely deal with it so it doesn't impact all of your customers who love you.

The City of Fort Collins in Colorado has selected Wauwatosa-based Corix Utilities to install the meters for the city’s new advanced meter project.

ZBB Energy Corp. today reported a fiscal third quarter net loss of $3.5 million, or 9 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $2.9 million, or 12 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

AT&T Inc. today announced the availability of its mobile Internet network in Manitowoc, extending access for advanced mobile services, devices and feature-rich audio and video content to customers in the area.

Serial entrepreneur Julie Wainwright, whose meteoric business highs and lows have included Reel.com, Pets.com and her current company, The RealReal, will speak at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference, to be held June 5-6 at Milwaukee’s Pfister Hotel.

Fiserv Inc. reported first quarter net income of $132 million, or 94 cents per share, up from $112 million, or 76 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

The Potawatomi Business Development Corporation (PBDC), the economic diversification arm of the Forest County Potawatomi, will break ground and hold a tribal blessing ceremony on Monday May 7 at 11 a.m. to mark the start of construction of a $36 million multi-tenant wholesale data center in Milwaukee.