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Purdue lands $14.5M to expand nanotechnology portal

Purdue University announced Tuesday that some of its researchers won a five-year, $14.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to expand the school’s online gateway for instruction, research and simulations in nanotechnology.

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Remy International CEO Weber stepping down

Remy International Inc. President and CEO John Weber will resign at the end of February after leading the company for seven years, the Pendleton-based automotive supplier announced Friday.

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Health care startups hungry for funds

Frustrated by up-and-down state funding for startup life sciences companies, industry leaders are talking up a plan to create a dedicated funding stream that could total $30 million a year.

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Emmis executive a technology pioneer

Paul Brenner, chief technology officer for Emmis Communications Corp., is largely credited with pioneering two recent technological breakthroughs that could pump badly needed revenue into the radio industry.

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Sale of family-owned business leads to lawsuit

Deborah Ecksten, a former shareholder of Indianapolis-based Createc Corp., is suing her brother and mother, claiming they earned multimillion-dollar profits at her expense by selling the company without her knowledge.

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ChaCha secures $14M investment to expand services

The latest round of funding will enable ChaCha to make “significant” investments in new products to expand both mobile and online services, CEO Scott Jones said. Internally, the project is dubbed “Go Big.”

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Rolls-Royce cutting production jobs in Indy

Rolls-Royce has offered buyouts and early retirement to 28 union production workers because of decreased product demand. The company declined to say whether any non-union workers were being cut.

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Marketer SmallBox helping clients improve their cultures

In mid-2011, the staff of local Web marketing firm SmallBox began a period of self-reflection that allowed the team to identify its “North Star,” the purpose, mission and vision that keeps a company headed in the right direction. It’s now spreading the word.

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