March 31, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinTwo startup firms, Cause.It LLC and Trensy LLC, have created tools that link charitable behavior and consumption. Like the
hit app Foursquare, the newcomers encourage users to “check in” when they show up at events or complete activities
so they can earn rewards offered by local businesses.
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March 31, 2012
Chris O'MalleyHigh-tech firms have been clamoring for a couple of decades for nonstop flights between Indianapolis International Airport
and California’s Silicon Valley. One of Indiana’s tech icons made it clear recently that the need is as urgent
as ever.
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March 29, 2012
IBJ StaffRoche Diagnostics Corp. plans to eliminate about 80 information technology jobs at its Indianapolis-area campus over the next
two years, the company said Thursday morning.
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March 26, 2012
Associated PressThe core issue in a dispute over a project to modernize Indiana's welfare system — whether IBM breached the billion-dollar
contract — wasn't addressed when a judge dismissed 17 of the state's claims against the computer giant, an attorney
for the state said Monday.
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March 25, 2012
IBJ StaffMarion County Superior Court Judge David J. Dreyer on Sunday dismissed the state's claim that IBM knowingly or intentionally
provided false information to the Family and Social Services Agency in order to obtain a contract with the agency.
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March 24, 2012
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After six hard years, the locally based Q&A service has positive earnings and expects revenue to more than double
this year. Founder and entrepreneur Scott Jones reveals how the firm turned the corner.
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March 22, 2012
IBJ Staff and Bloomberg NewsIndianapolis-based ExactTarget Inc., the e-mail marketing company that counts Microsoft Corp. and Groupon Inc. as customers,
gained more than 30 percent in its trading debut Thursday.
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March 22, 2012
IBJ StaffIndianapolis-based e-mail marketing company ExactTarget priced shares in its initial public offering above the expected range
on Wednesday.
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March 17, 2012
Michelle Burton / Special to IBJConcept is likely ahead of technical ability to make it work.
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March 17, 2012
Greg AndrewsIndianapolis attorneys say numerous local private firms are on the IPO sidelines, mulling whether to try to capitalize on
the strengthening economy and improving investor appetite for new issues.
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March 17, 2012
Right-to-work, smoking ban were only two of a long list of actions taken.
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March 17, 2012
Chris O'MalleyLawsuit alleges two of six partners in Qtego seized control and locked them out of the northwest-side firm, which developments
telecommunications technology.
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March 8, 2012
Indianapolis-based ExactTarget Inc., which announced an initial public offering in November, said it is seeking to raise as
much as $145 million. The company is offering 8.5 million shares for $15 to $17 apiece, according to a regulatory filing made
Wednesday.
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March 3, 2012
Chris O'MalleyHamilton County and Bloomington are among places that are nurturing small technology firms in their own back yard. Local tech-focused
organizations like theirs could stoke competition among Hoosier communities vying for coveted jobs.
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March 2, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinBrightPoint Inc. has laid off an undisclosed number of its local employees and decided not to fill another 120 open positions,
the Indianapolis-based company acknowledged Thursday.
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February 29, 2012
IBJ StaffBright Automotive Inc., an Anderson company that once hoped to become a major hybrid-vehicle player with hundreds of employees
in central Indiana, has called it quits after failing to land a $450 million government loan.
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February 28, 2012
Associated PressA Colorado-based solar module maker that hoped to create up to 1,200 jobs in Indiana by next year said Tuesday that it was
laying off about 180 workers in Colorado as the company focuses on a more efficient product.
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February 25, 2012
Scott Olson3-D scans match former hospital with building plans.
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February 23, 2012
IBJ StaffIndianapolis-based Angie's List beat analysts’ revenue expectations in its first quarter as a public company, seeing
results from a marketing campaign that drove up expenses.
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February 22, 2012
The Indianapolis-based company posted a loss of $5.9 million in the fourth quarter on revenue of $27.9 million.
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February 22, 2012
Scott OlsonThe Indianapolis-based company should post a loss of 11 cents per share when it reports its first earnings as a public company
on Wednesday afternoon. But at least one analyst is upbeat about its long-term prospects.
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February 11, 2012
The new law would prevent the I-Light data network from straying beyond its stated mission of serving the state’s colleges
and universities.
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February 11, 2012
IBJ StaffThe state's technology industry doesn't march in lockstep when it comes to attracting top talent.
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February 10, 2012
Associated PressDevelopment officials have hired a company to plan a downtown Bloomington technology park they hope can eventually spawn a
bustling high-tech business hub in the southern Indiana city.
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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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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.