JOSEPH: Don’t repeat Marsh’s mistake
Marsh Supermarkets quickly realized it could not honor the flood of redemptions of the $10 coupon it recently offered to its
Facebook friends.
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Tenants trickling in to Purdue’s technology center
For a city feverishly growing its technology and life sciences sectors, it seemed a bit anticlimactic last January when
Purdue University dedicated its new technology center with only one tenant. But the lone tenant in the $12.8
million complex, FlamencoNets, a high-tech telecommunications firm, is about to get some company.
ALTOM: Should you trade your shredder in for a bonfire?
One thing I love about my line of work is that the simplest things get fascinatingly complicated.
Grizzled entrepreneur: Pounce now
Dave Becker has made a lot of money on ventures including First Internet Bank and a banking software firm
called re:Member Data Services, so his thoughts about the right time to launch a business are not exactly
uninformed.
When is the…
Brightpoint profit slips, but beats expectations
Wireless device distributor Brightpoint Inc. said yesterday that profit and revenue fell in the second quarter because it
sold fewer of the devices, and at lower prices.
For Zotec CEO, health care reform cuts both ways
In the eyes of Scott Law, Congress is heading in exactly the wrong direction on health care reform.
But the
CEO of Zotec Partners predicts a big bump in sales for his physician-billing management company if current reform proposals
become law.
Quest Information goes after government contracts
Quest Information Systems does the kind of contracting where any screw-ups—even those not necessarily of its own
doing—can bring an unflattering public spotlight. The Indianapolis custom software developer works for politicians
and bureaucrats, a group many businesses seek to avoid.
EnerDel lands $118 million stimulus grant
EnerDel, an Indianapolis-based producer of automotive lithium-ion batteries, will receive $118.5 million in a matching grant
from the federal government.
Mobile search engine faces test
ChaCha Search, the increasingly popular creation of serial inventor Scott Jones, was bombarded last month
after early reports that Michael Jackson had died.
ALTOM: Technology moves too fast for law to keep up
Technologists don’t usually give the law a basketful of respect. From our point of view, the law is struggling frantically to stay within a hundred yards of our bleeding edge. By the time the law gets around to speaking on a technical subject, the subject may not even exist anymore.
Brightpoint prices offering of 15 million shares
Wireless device distributor Brightpoint Inc. said today it has priced 15 million shares of a previously announced stock offering
at $5 each.
Health care marketers taking the pulse of consumers’ online habits
Health care marketers can adapt to, and even use to their advantage, the online search habits of consumers.
Understanding when and why people search for specific health-related terms is vital to attracting more
visitors (i.e. patients) to a Web site.
Interactive Intelligence expects higher profit
Interactive Intelligence said yesterday it expects a profit of between $1.8 million and $2.5 million in the second quarter,
up from $845,000 the company earned in the same period last year.
Brightpoint shareholder selling shares
Brightpoint Inc. said this morning shareholder NC Telecom Holding A/S would sell 15 million common shares in a public offering.
Brightpoint’s Danish deal not so sweet two years later
The cross-continent mega deal that made Brightpoint Inc. the world’s biggest wireless phone distributor
has lost much of its sheen two years after being struck. Brightpoint Inc. in August 2007 purchased Denmark-based
Dangaard Telecom for $385 million in stock and the assumption of $350 million in Dangaard debt.
Whacked $1.9M for downloads
Unbelievable as it sounds, a federal jury in Minnesota ordered a woman to pay $1.92 million for violating
copyrights on 24 songs she illegally shared. Thatâ??s $80,000 per song.
Jammie Thomas-Rasset today asked a judge to knock the penalty…
Carmel tech firm takes coupons into digital era
Carmel-based mobile marketer Tetherball has deployed a program using
a radio frequency identification device that can measure in detail to what extent customers redeem loyalty and rewards offers.
Innovation is focus of tech summit
The high holy day of Indiana’s technology industry is getting a new theme this year. The TechPoint Tech Summit will this year be known as the TechPoint Innovation Summit, Sept. 28-29 at the Indiana Convention Center.
Smart phones and meetings
The days of only the powerful few getting by with tapping their Blackberries during meetings are long gone.
When was the last time you were in a gathering where more people seemed interested in the topic or the
speaker…
Local social networking site connects users offline
Growing by leaps and bounds, smallerindiana.com will host its first-ever “Bigger Ideas” conference for the high-tech and Internet-savvy
crowd.