CE member company Murfie.com was recently featured on NPR. Murfie’s All Tech Considered segment highlighted the company, as well as one of their customers who digitized over 900 CDs. Murfie will burn your old discs to a digital file, recycle the cases and even resell the album online. It’s part garage sale, part iTunes.

Read the full article and listen to the broadcast here.

CE member Spill has seen a lot of traction recently, and was just featured on MTV’s Act Blog. Check out the post here.

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Madison hackerspace (and CE member) Sector67 was recently crowned the champion of the Power Racing Series, and subsequently featured in Wired Magazine. Contestants competed with souped-up Power Wheels cars in three challenges: a drag race, a 15-lap mini Grand Prix, and a 75-minute endurance challenge.

Check out the full article here.

In what may be the biggest non-biotech venture capital funding ever in Wisconsin, CE member company Networked Insights recently completed a $20 million Series B round of funding. Networked Insights was founded in 2006 and makes a social media listening platform that helps agencies and brand marketers make better strategic and tactical decisions by analyzing what’s happening on the social web.

Read the full official release here.

CE member company Sector67 and 94labs were recently featured in the Sunday edition of the Wisconsin State Journal. Sector67 and 94labs were highlighted as entrepreneurial hubs in Madison and are “helping entrepreneurs create products and start companies more rapidly than ever before.”

CE member Michael Fenchel’s mobile art collective was also highlighted, as well as the upcoming Build Madison – a 24 hour community create-a-thon taking place at Sector67 this weekend.

Check out the full article here.

Fresh Madison Market and CE member company SnowShoeFood, LLC. announce the release of the True Local mobile app for Android users. This app has been available since February for iPhone users and has had over 800 downloads. The True Local app is part of Fresh Madison Market’s commitment to supporting local businesses and is part of an integrated marketing campaign. The app can be used to find local product in the store’s inventory, learn more about the product and company, and download money-saving coupons.

Read the full press release.

CE member company Sconnie was featured on OnMilwaukee.com recently. Sconnie has come a long way since printing their first shirts in 2004. The article dives into the roots of where the company came from and how it’s grown along the way. Checkout the full article for a great history of the Sconnie Nation.

CE member company Spill was recently featured in TechCrunch and GigaOM as part of TechStars Boston’s DemoDay. Spill creates virtual communities for anonymous peer-to-peer support among college students. They were accepted into the TechStars program and spent the last few months in Boston.

The cover story of this week’s Isthmus newspaper features CE member company PerBlue. The article focuses on Madison’s video game industry and the many changes it has seen over the last few years. Check out the online version here.

CE member Sector67 is featured in the cover story of this week’s Isthmus paper. The cover story, title “Greenius at work!” features 5 inventors that are helping the environment. Chris Meyer’s Sector67 hackerspace is featured as a place where inventors can meet, share tools, equipment and ideas, and work on their projects.

Sector67 also reuses and recycles many left over materials from local companies for many of their projects, offers hands on classes, and has even built a bicycle-operated blender. Check out the full article here.

“Successful entrepreneurs,” reflects Meyer, “never start out to make money; they set out to provide for an unmet need.” Sector67 is the kind of environment where ideas to meet those needs can be fostered.