Will a new app disrupt snow, lawn-care businesses?
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Interactive Intelligence takes quarterly loss
Interactive was right on target with the preliminary earnings announcement it made July 16, when it predicted revenue between $86 million and $88 million and an operating loss between $11 million and $12 million.
IU says no victims reported in data breach
Data including names, addresses and Social Security numbers of those who attended IU from 2011 to 2014 was unsecured for more than 11 months because protections weren’t working correctly.
House votes to extend moratorium on Internet taxes
Under current law, the moratorium expires Nov. 1, exposing Internet users to the same kind of connection fees that often show up on telephone bills.
Beer technology firm buys N.C. company
Carmel software startup SteadyServ Technologies acquired North Carolina beer-app developer PintLabs.
Web startup Bookit planning expansion
Bookit Commerce Inc., which operates the website bookacoach.com, plans to hire 93 people by 2018, the locally based company announced Monday morning.
MISO data breach latest in hackers’ efforts to reach power grid
Operating cost data from participants in Carmel-based MISO's power network was compromised in a computer breach that highlighted the rising vulnerability of the U.S. electricity infrastructure.
UPDATE: Butler warns students, staff, alums of data breach
The school says the exposed information includes birthdates, social security numbers and bank account information of about 163,000 students, faculty, staff and alumni.
Aereo court ruling sidesteps cloud-computing questions
As Aereo Inc.’s streaming-TV service was dealt a potentially fatal blow Wednesday, the cloud-computing industry was more concerned about what the U.S. Supreme Court didn’t say.
Hotel app maker to shift HQ accommodations to Indianapolis
Dallas-based Yikes, which automatically handles most hotel transactions for consumers, is planning on ramping up operations and settling its main office in downtown Indianapolis.
Peapod sees Indianapolis as big growth market
Peapod Inc. has discovered fertile ground in Indianapolis despite a crowded field of grocery competitors, said Scott DeGraeve, senior vice president at the country’s oldest and biggest online grocery-delivery service.
Tech firm ChaCha slices 28 of its 44 employees
The Carmel-based question-and-answer service cut its 18-month-old social media division, Social Reactor, after a rate algorithm change at Google slashed the division’s revenue from advertising.
AT&T aims for TV’s future with $48.5B DirecTV deal
With 5.7 million U-verse TV customers and 20.3 million DirecTV customers in the U.S., the combined AT&T-DirecTV would become the second-largest pay TV operator behind a combined Comcast-Time Warner Cable.
UPDATE: Tech firm triggering $10M data center downtown
Michigan-base Online Tech plans to open a 25-employee facility just west of Lucas Oil Stadium, serving businesses that need cloud computing.
Small biz program to tackle lack of Web savvy
The program Fight for Small will teach Indiana business owners how to wield social networks, customer review websites and the rest of the Internet to their advantage.
Firm that figured out how to sell hair-salon products online is snapped up by giant
Indianapolis startup Loxa Beauty was barely generating revenue last year when one of the biggest companies in its industry offered to buy it.
Local businesses struggle to make sense of Heartbleed flaw
Companies around Indianapolis—especially small ones without their own IT teams—are still trying to determine how or even if they were affected by the confounding Internet security gap.
Heartbleed bug causes major security headache
A confounding computer bug called "Heartbleed" is causing big security headaches across the Internet as websites scramble to fix the problem and Web surfers wonder whether they should change their passwords
Indy-based Web firm for coaches makes Atlanta acquisition
Startup dot-com BookIt Commerce Inc. is in the midst of expanding its site for vetting and marketing coaches into new markets.
BidPal claims domain names in cybersquatting settlement
The Indianapolis tech firm had sued in federal court to seize control of the Web addresses that incorporated the company’s name.