Indy IT firm planning to add up to 400 workers
Knowledge Services, founded by CEO Julie Bielawski in 1994, has been one of the city’s fastest-growing companies in recent years.
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iGoDigital founder sues to fend off dispute over $21M sale
Eric Tobias’ filing in federal court is intended to head off a potential challenge from a key contractor who believes he is owed more from the company’s sale to ExactTarget in 2012.
PROXY CORNER: Interactive Intelligence Inc.
Interactive Intelligence Group Inc., 7601 Interactive Way, Indianapolis, 46278 (www.inin.com), develops communications and interactions-management software. In the quarter ended June 30, 2013, the company earned $1.2 million, or 6 cents per share, on revenue of $76.2 million. That compares with a net loss of $1.1 million, or 6 cents per share, on revenue of $54.8 […]
Fastenal vending machines serve up a revolution
Vending machines, warehouses bristling with technology slash costs.
Interactive revamps sales strategy to widen client appetite
The Indianapolis software developer last quarter broke its sales teams into tiers—small, medium and large deals—because too many employees were going after big contracts, with their high commissions.
Interactive Intelligence earnings, revenue improve
Indianapolis software developer Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. earned $1.2 million in the second quarter as revenue increased 39 percent, to $76.2 million.
Online markets help Indiana growers find new customers
Online “food hubs” have emerged as small and medium-sized farmers have worked together to find quicker and broader ways to distribute their produce.
Goldsmith: ‘Big data’ to reinvent government
While some Americans question the National Security Agency’s habit of amassing citizens’ phone records, former Indianapolis Mayor Steve Goldsmith urges city governments to dive into “big data.”
Delta Faucet builds innovation machine in Carmel
One of Indiana’s most innovative companies in the past decade doesn’t make surgical instruments or drugs or engines. It makes water faucets and toilets. Delta Faucet Co. has secured 589 patents in the past 20 years.
Public broadcasters find cheaper, faster way to share content
The state’s eight public TV stations are building an Internet-based video streaming service that could expand their offerings and turbo-charge collaborations. Public radio stations also would benefit.
Battery maker EnerDel lays off 65 workers
Lacking production contracts, struggling battery maker EnerDel Inc. has once again downsized its Indianapolis-area work force.
Software firm finds beer business is a frothy market
Carmel-based Blue Horseshoe Solutions develops software that manages supplies, warehousing, deliveries, worker productivity and other logistical complexities connected with any number of goods-producing businesses, but about 25 percent of its business falls within the beverage category.
Emmis sees coupons as next frontier for radio apps
An app that would allow smartphones to receive FM radio signals like a transistor radio has been hailed as a way to help stations recapture listeners who fled to Web-based music streaming services.
Tech showcase crowns unlikely winner in pitch contest
Emphymab Biotech, with a treatment for emphysema developed by a group of Indiana University medical professors, received the top prize at the Innovation Showcase on Thursday.
Salesforce.com wraps up $2.5B acquisition of ExactTarget
Cloud computing giant Salesforce.com paid $33.75 per share to acquire ExactTarget. The price was roughly 6.5 times ExactTarget’s projected revenue for 2013, analysts said.
Health tech startup aiming for fences
Flying under the radar for much of its existence, local health tech startup hc1.com Inc. now thinks it’s ready to soar. The company, spun out last year from Zionsville-based Bostech Corp., is on pace to generate annual revenue of $10 million by year’s end. And it thinks business could triple next year.
Hunckler steps down as head of startup group Verge
The executive director of the startup advocacy group will devote himself to Social Reactor, a social media startup within Scott Jones’ question-and-answer service ChaCha Search Inc.
Software firm TinderBox relocating to Monument Circle
President Dustin Sapp expects the 8,800-square-foot headquarters in the Lacy Building to boost the three-year-old firm’s profile and help recruit employees as the company pursues plans to hire nearly 100 people over the next few years.
Salesforce entices ExactTarget execs with $20M in awards
Salesforce.com has extended job offers to ExactTarget Inc.'s top brass—and sweetened the pot by dangling awards of restricted stock topping $20 million.
Tech expo offers elevator opportunity
A growing expo for Indiana’s technology industry will give 60 startups a shot at pulling in capital on July 11. Each company will get 60 seconds to pitch their businesses to Halo Capital Group, Elevate Ventures and a handful of other seed- and early-stage investment firms.