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How mortgage meltdown sank Oak Street, others:

August 20, 2007

Just three years ago, Steve Alonso was at the top of his game. The veteran mortgage banker was a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Indiana entrepreneur of the year award, and his fast-growing company, Oak Street Mortgage, was ready ing for a $150 million initial public offering. Investors should feel fortunate the IPO never happened. Today, Oak Street sits in the evergrowing scrap heap of firms that failed amid the meltdown of the subprime-lending market. “I think we built a…

A&E: Fringe characters meet Fringe Film

August 20, 2007

By the time you read this, Gen-Con-one of our town’s largest conventions-will have packed up its multisided dice, folded its cowled costumes, and drunk its final Mountain Dew (at least for this year). How you feel about this convergence of game players will influence, in part, how you feel about “A Great Disturbance,” a feature film to be screened Aug. 17, 24 and 31 as part of Fringe-Film, the new movie component of the 3-year-old IndyFringe Festival. To be clear,…

Scotty’s looking downtown

August 16, 2007

Scotty’s Brewhouse, the Indiana college town institution, is working on plans for new restaurants in downtown Indianapolis, Chicago and Charlotte, N.C. The restaurant would like to locate at Pan Am Plaza, said…

Indy fitness craze continues

August 14, 2007

With so many new fitness chains entering the central Indiana market, will Hoosier become synonymous with svelte? The latest additions: A Minnesota fitness chain has plans for new locations in Avon, Brownsburg, Carmel,…

Prenatal product designed to aid development: Biologist mom of seven sold on benefits of system

August 13, 2007

When Lisa Jarrett was expecting her fourth child in 1991, her obstetrician husband pulled out an article he had read in a medical journal about a prenatal audio development system. Created by physician and researcher Brent Logan, the system is designed to help a baby’s brain develop before it is born by introducing simple rhythms similar to the mother’s heartbeat. “It’s a cognitive curriculum,” Jarrett said. After obtaining Logan’s tapes and using them through her next three pregnancies, she was…

Did mortgage losses spur sudden First Indiana sale?:

August 13, 2007

First Indiana Corp. announced poor second-quarter financial results Aug. 7-which raises this interesting question: Did the city’s biggest locally owned bank race to sell itself last month because the results otherwise would have caused its stock to tumble? Even before the earnings report, banking observers were abuzz that the $529 million sale to Milwaukee-based Marshall & Ilsley Corp. seemed rushed. While many expected First Indiana to sell eventually, CEO Robert Warrington had seemed hellbent on improving results first to drive…

Office market vacancy rates showing positive signs: Government leasing boosts downtown performance; suburbs see fast absorption despite flurry of construction

August 13, 2007

Downtown and suburban vacancy rates are declining slightly or at least holding steady-a positive sign for an Indianapolis office market absorbing a plethora of new space on the city’s north side. The second-quarter vacancy rate for the central business district dropped to 15.9 percent, from 16.7 percent the previous quarter, according to data from the local office of St. Louis-based commercial real estate firm Colliers Turley Martin Tucker. A similar report from the local office of Los Angeles-based CB Richard…

Farmers’ markets are blossoming in Indiana: Consumer demand for local produce increasing; sellers see bigger profits without the middleman

August 13, 2007

On summer Saturdays, Ross Faris starts work at 4:30 a.m., packing up zucchini, peaches and other produce for the trek to farmers’ markets in Broad Ripple and Zionsville. Then he stands in the 90-plus-degree heat, answering questions about heirloom tomatoes or new varieties of peppers, greeting regulars and loving every minute of it. “It’s just a rewarding experience,” Faris said. “I can’t tell you how many people appreciate what we do here.” Faris, owner of Indianapolis-based Your Neighbor’s Garden, is…

Blog questions McRobbie’s role in ChaCha

August 9, 2007

A blog that follows Silicon Valley gossip is implying that new Indiana University President Michael McRobbie had a conflict of interest when IU formed a partnership with Carmel-based ChaCha Search Inc. The blog, ValleyWag, said the deal appears suspicious because McRobbie had a long history as an IU information technology and research executive before becoming […]

Conseco slapped with rating downgrades

August 8, 2007

Standard & Poor’s and A.M. Best have downgraded debt of Conseco Inc. after second-quarter earnings released by the Carmel-based insurer Monday evening disappointed investors. Standard & Poor’s bumped senior debt ratings and counterparty credit ratings to B+ from BB-. A.M. Best cut its rating to B+ from B++. Conseco said its loss widened to $64.5 […]

UPDATE: Conseco shares slide as losses mount

August 7, 2007

Stock in Conseco Inc. slipped 6 percent this morning to trade near $17 after the Carmel-based life and health insurer reported yesterday that its losses widened in its second quarter. The $64.5 million setback resulted from pouring more money into its hemorrhaging long-term care reserves and into a class-action lawsuit settlement over life insurance policies. […]

Conseco loss climbs, as insurer boosts reserves

August 6, 2007

Conseco Inc.’s loss widened to $64.5 million in its second quarter-the fruit of pouring more money into its hemorrhaging long-term care reserves and into a class-action lawsuit settlement over life insurance policies. The Carmel-based life and health insurer lost 38 cents per diluted common share, compared with a 21-cent per share loss in the second […]

South Carolina firm buys eTapestry for $24.8M

August 6, 2007

eTapestry, which makes software available to not-for-profit groups from its offices at Mount Comfort Airport in Hancock County, has been acquired by Blackbaud Inc., a Charleston, S.C., company that also specializes in software for nonprofits. The price of $24.8 million could increase as much as $1.5 million under a stock-based incentive. eTapestry stores fundraising information […]

Dealer Services Corp. has rival Adesa taking notice

August 6, 2007

Dealer Services Corp. is an example of what happens when an entrepreneur sells his company to a bigger one and then comes
back to haunt it after he is tossed aside. In this case, the spurned entrepreneur, John Fuller, became a thorn to Adesa Inc.
a few years after its CEO sent him packing in late 2001.

Indiana Downs buyout nearing finish line

August 6, 2007

The high-stakes competition for control of Indiana Downs has entered the homestretch. And South Bend-based Oliver Racing LLC
is poised to win.

Software startup Vyante measures online chatter: Two-man firm lands $200,000 in grants, readies for product launch through beta tests with corporations

August 6, 2007

To make money on new software, sometimes you have to give it away. Thanks to that counterintuitive approach, tiny local IT startup Vyante Inc. has persuaded companies like Eli Lilly and Co., Roche Diagnostics, Dow Agro-Sciences and 5MetaCom to test the beta version of its new software, which tracks and measures the impact of their brands online. Vyante hopes eventually to convert the companies into paying customers. “We’ve persisted against the odds,” said Vyante Senior Technologist Benjamin Ranck. “It was…

American Home Mortgage downsizing to hit Fort Wayne

August 3, 2007

Beleaguered mortgage lender American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. said last night it will close most of its operations-bad news for Fort Wayne, where the Melville, N.Y., company employs 155. In a statement, American Home Mortgage said it would shrink its workforce to 750 from 7,000 today because there is “no realistic alternative.” The Fort Wayne […]

UPDATE: ChaCha to link to IU librarians, tech specialists

August 2, 2007

Indiana University and ChaCha Inc., the human-assisted Internet search engine based in Carmel, said this afternoon that IU will make its librarians and information technology staff available to ChaCha users. The IU experts will help ChaCha users sift through unwanted material in order to focus on the information users want. Users will be linked by […]

ChaCha, IU to announce research alliance

August 2, 2007

ChaCha Inc., the human-assisted Internet search engine based in Carmel, this afternoon is expected to announce a research-and-development alliance with Indiana University. ChaCha founder Scott Jones will join IU Vice President for Information Technology Brad Wheeler for a news conference at IUPUI. Founded last year, ChaCha quickly raised $6 million from investors, including Amazon.com founder […]

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IN THIS ISSUE:

How mortgage meltdown sank Oak Street, others:

A&E: Fringe characters meet Fringe Film

Scotty’s looking downtown

Indy fitness craze continues

Prenatal product designed to aid development: Biologist mom of seven sold on benefits of system

Did mortgage losses spur sudden First Indiana sale?:

Office market vacancy rates showing positive signs: Government leasing boosts downtown performance; suburbs see fast absorption despite flurry of construction

Farmers’ markets are blossoming in Indiana: Consumer demand for local produce increasing; sellers see bigger profits without the middleman

Blog questions McRobbie’s role in ChaCha

Conseco slapped with rating downgrades

UPDATE: Conseco shares slide as losses mount

Conseco loss climbs, as insurer boosts reserves

South Carolina firm buys eTapestry for $24.8M

Dealer Services Corp. has rival Adesa taking notice

Indiana Downs buyout nearing finish line

Software startup Vyante measures online chatter: Two-man firm lands $200,000 in grants, readies for product launch through beta tests with corporations

American Home Mortgage downsizing to hit Fort Wayne

UPDATE: ChaCha to link to IU librarians, tech specialists

ChaCha, IU to announce research alliance