May 7, 2013
Dan HumanThe tech firm's shifting emphasis toward cloud services has boosted sales and profits. Strong results for the first quarter
lifted its stock as much as 20 percent Tuesday.
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April 20, 2013
IBJ StaffBidPal picked up two awards at TechPoint's annual event, which drew 1,000 to the JW Marriott downtown Saturday night.
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March 27, 2013
Dan HumanThe iKnow system will be introduced alongside other changing features with the launch of ChaCha 2.0, which will likely happen
in early April, company founder Scott Jones said.
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March 16, 2013
IBJ StaffMaxTradein, which allows dealers to bid on cars, adds former ChaCha executive to pursue roll-out to 30 markets.
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March 16, 2013
Chris O'MalleyA fixture in Indianapolis' startup community, Marcadia Biotech co-founder Kent Hawryluk is backing a project management
software firm.
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January 17, 2013
Scott OlsonJ. Mark Howell will join the Indianapolis-based public company March 1. Howell previously spent 18 years as an executive with
BrightPoint Inc., which was acquired in October by California-based Ingram Micro Inc.
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December 10, 2012
Indianapolis-based RND Group Inc. said it plans to spend $1.3 million to update and equip its 13,510-square-foot headquarters.
The company has 27 employees.
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November 17, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinChris Baggott has spent the past year and a half raising cattle, pigs and chickens on pasture, rather than conventional feed
grain, and without the use of hormones or antibiotics.
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November 15, 2012
Chris O'MalleyLeaders for TechPoint, the statewide technology business initiative, have tapped a new president who they think is a veritable
poster child for successful entrepreneurship.
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September 24, 2012
IBJ StaffJim Jay, president and CEO of statewide technology advocacy group TechPoint for the past six years, is leaving to take a job
in the private sector.
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August 22, 2012
Dan HumanBrightpoint Inc. CEO Robert Laikin stands to receive $14.1 million after his company is acquired by Santa Ana, Calif.-based
Ingram Micro Inc., say SEC documents released this week.
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June 2, 2012
Red Herring magazine's annual list of top tech startups previously included the likes of Facebook, Google and Yahoo.
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May 12, 2012
Chris O'MalleyMost technology firm startups are birthed by men in their 20s and 30s who have a background in computer science. To what degree
women are underrepresented in the ranks of tech entrepreneurs is hard to quantify, but it’s a small universe.
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May 5, 2012
Aprimo founder joins other notables as TechPoint Trailblazer.
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February 9, 2012
IBJ StaffCarmel-based ChaCha Search Inc., a question-and-answer service for mobile phone and online users, is apologizing for providing
what it calls "inflammatory answers to questions asked about sensitive subjects."
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November 22, 2011
IBJ StaffIndianapolis-based MyJibe LLC, an up-and-coming budgeting and personal finance software firm that was launched by two 20-something
entrepreneurs last January, has already been acquired.
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November 19, 2011
IBJ StaffFocus on what you do best and get to know your partners’ strengths and weaknesses, Kevin Bailey, a co-founder of Slingshot
SEO, told attendees of the TechPoint summit this month.
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October 5, 2011
Associated PressSteve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday
technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and iPhone, has died.
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September 29, 2011
IBJ Staff and Bloomberg NewsBattery maker Ener1 Inc., which has almost 400 employees in the Indianapolis area, has replaced its chief executive and appointed
Ivy Tech President Thomas J. Snyder as non-executive chairman of the board.
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September 27, 2011
The investment from Allos Ventures in Carmel and MK Capital in Northbrook, Ill., will help the company expand into more cities.
BidPal uses wireless handheld devices to automate charitable auction bidding.
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September 19, 2011
A group of 10 investors created a $1.1 million fund to support $250,000 in annual prize money to Indiana University students
in Bloomington who submit the best business plans for an Internet or software company.
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August 8, 2011
Jay Love, who co-founded and sold software maker eTapestry for $24.8 million in 2007, will return to Indianapolis to lead
the growing search engine optimization firm.
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July 30, 2011
IBJ StaffA former executive vice president at Indianapolis-based e-mail marketing firm Exact Target will lead the firm’s effort
to sell to bigger companies.
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June 8, 2011
IBJ StaffVontoo Inc., a once-promising Indianapolis-based technology firm that landed millions in venture capital but failed to meet
growth expectations, has been acquired by One Call Now.
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May 16, 2011
Francesca JaroszBlue Pillar Inc., which produces software for energy-management data systems, is moving to Indianapolis from Georgia and plans
70 jobs by 2015.
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.