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Once reserved for upper-crust weddings, ice sculptures-and their creators-have gone mainstream, finding their way to business
meetings, personal parties and hotel receptions nationwide. Of the 500 U.S. professional sculptors who design the icy artwork,
10 practice their craft in Indiana.
STARTUP MOBIUS LABS Software tester tries training, too Type of business: software testing Location: 9229 Delegates Row, Suite 290 Phone: 218-7709 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.mobiuslabs.com Founded: March 2007 Owner: Alan Wlasuk Owner’s background: Alan Wlasuk, 56, has a bachelor’s degree in math from Drexel University and a master’s in computer science from Ohio State University. About 20 years ago, the software developer founded two local enterprises for AT&T. Then 14 years ago, he created software-development firm Wlasuk, Delporte and…
The Vatican did something unusual last week. It issued a new set of Ten Commandments. Unlike the originals, these aren’t for everyone. They’re just for motorists. They weren’t delivered on stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God, either. They were issued at a news conference by the Vatican’s office for migrants and itinerant people. Why drivers’ commandments? Well, according to the Associated Press, the Vatican believes cars can be “an occasion of sin,” particularly when used for dangerous passing…
Investors the world over are in an uproar about the increase in U.S. interest rates over the last month. Fundamental guys are screaming that the cost of capital is now prohibitive to further growth. Technical guys are screaming that 25- year support levels were broken and now the floodgates are open to much higher rates. Somewhere a voice of reason needs to be heard. You’ve come to the right place. The fact is that interest rates have been trending higher…
In 2037, Melody Goldberg will be 57 years old and eligible for membership in AARP. While the lawyer at Indiana Legal Services Inc. has difficulty relishing the thought, she can at least look forward to the time when she’s finally liberated of her student loans. But for now, Goldberg, 27, can take solace as well knowing she’s content at the public service job she enjoys without worrying about how she’s going to make her next loan payment. The 2006 graduate…
Of all the components of finding and hiring the right employees, employers consider interviewing job candidates the most difficult. If not done well, interviews can lead an employer to make the wrong decision. Why? Because job candidates rehearse their answers to the traditional interview questions, telling the employers what they want to hear. However, if employers ask behavioral based questions, job candidates can’t manipulate their answers as easily. Perhaps a scenario-a composite taken from typical real-life episodes-will illustrate the difference…
Here’s one way to send your company’s revenue through the roof: Push your product into 70 countries around the world. That’s easier said than done, of course. But it’s exactly the path Polymer Technology Systems Inc. took to help quadruple sales of its cholesterol-checking device in the last three years. How Indianapolis-based PTS pulled off the feat shows how even small companies in Middle America can become global enterprises in today’s economy. In fact, the possibility of worldwide expansion is…
I thought I’d explored just about every purpose to which computer hardware and software would lend themselves, but Neil Taflinger of Intake magazine tossed me a new one in the May 17 issue. Technology, he says, is a tool for retaining young employees. Could be, I suppose. Taflinger is one of those young employees he talks about, a real Gen X’er, so he might have some insight here. According to Taflinger, Gen X’ers partly judge any company they work for…
I am a dabbler. The upside of dabbling is that one gets involved in a number of diverse projects throughout one’s career. Some great successes, some galactic failures. Either way, the dabbler learns much about many things along the way. One of the lessons learned in a life of dabbling is the unlikely symbiosis between visionaries and bean counters. Like particles of matter and anti-matter in the universe, one cannot exist without the other. And yet, their uncontrolled collision can…
Indiana’s two horse tracks could change hands as investors race to come up with the $250 million required to add thousands
of slot machines. The steep cost of a state license combined with the potential of a lucrative payoff has stakeholders in
Shelbyville-based Indiana Downs and Anderson-based Hoosier Park jockeying for position.
An Indianapolis firm that helped haul away the demolished DaimlerChrysler Corp. foundry last year has placed a mechanic’s
lien on the automaker’s property, potentially complicating the sale of the 34 acres already challenged by environmental issues.
It seems that, in the phone world, everybody loves small businesses these days. AT&T, central Indiana’s primary landline provider, is highlighting small-business offerings in its recently re-branded Cingular stores throughout the region. Cable company Comcast, meanwhile, is rolling out its small-business phone options over local lines and Bright House Networks plans to get in the game within a year. Then there are the scrappy, independent providers such as locally based Indiana Telephone Co. Inc., which have expanded their offerings to…
Lloyd W. Benjamin III today said he will step down as president of Indiana State University when his contract expires June 30, 2008. Benjamin has been president of the Terre Haute university for seven years. He said he and his wife have other personal and professional ambitions they’d like to pursue.
Flagstar Bank will likely vacate one of downtown’s highest visibility corners, at Meridian and Washington streets, later this year. Midland Atlantic is marketing the 3,500-square-foot space in 2 N. Meridian St. as an…
Cohesant Technologies Inc. today posted fiscal second-quarter profit of $77,835, compared with profit of $502,254 a year earlier. Revenue of $7.4 million was up from $6.8 million. The Indianapolis company, which makes pipes and coating products for the water and wastewater markets, said the most recent quarter was hit by losses in its rehabilitation, and […]
Crawfordsville Road Partners LLC has bought 19 acres at the southeast corner of Interstates 465 and 74 on the west side with visions of attracting motorsports companies and hotels. Terms were not disclosed. The location is expected to benefit from being situated between Indianapolis Motor Speedway and O’Reilly Raceway Park, according to Meridian Real Estate, […]
University of Iowa regents this afternoon named Purdue University Provost Sally Mason president in a move anticipated in media reports yesterday. Mason, 57, was passed over for Purdue president in May in favor of University of California Riverside Chancellor France Cordova. IUPUI Chancellor Charles Bantz also was among four finalists
About 70 of the 100 jobs Veolia Water plans to create in Indianapolis in a relocation of its Houston headquarters will be in finance, accounting, information technology, and technical and support services, and pay an average compensation of $100,000 a year. Although some of the positions will be transferred from Houston, most will be filled […]
Downtown’s Jefferson Plaza is getting a facelift and a new name. Developer J. Greg Allen says he’s talking with three potential restaurants interested in opening on the first floor with outdoor dining…
The relocation of Veolia Water’s North American headquarters to Indianapolis from Houston will bring about 100 jobs, according to a source close to the announcement. Mayor Bart Peterson and Gov. Mitch Daniels have scheduled a news conference at 3:30 this afternoon to announce the relocation. Veolia Water manages all operations, maintenance and customer-service facets of […]
