Indianapolis’ tech sector getting some Silicon Valley cred
TechPoint’s 13th annual technology summit might be more notable not for who is on the formal agenda but for who is in the audience.
TechPoint’s 13th annual technology summit might be more notable not for who is on the formal agenda but for who is in the audience.
Work on the new engine is expected to start next year and build to full production in 2015. About 200 engineering and production jobs are expected to be added over that time.
Electric-car battery maker Ener1 Inc., whose shares were delisted from the NASDAQ stock market Oct. 28, is the latest recipient of U.S. Energy Department aid to run into financial trouble and draw congressional scrutiny.
Parts shortages from three months of catastrophic flooding in Thailand have forced Honda to cut U.S. and Canadian factory production by 50 percent for the second time this year. Honda, which employs 2,000 in Greensburg, said it will not lay off any workers.
Heartland Sweeteners LLC plans to spend nearly $10 million to upgrade its Indianapolis plant and potentially boost its work force there by 39 employees in the next five years.
The northern Indiana factory where AM General once made H2 Hummers could be building plug-in, hybrid cargo vans under a deal with Anderson-based Bright Automotive announced Friday.
Plants in Indiana and other states are slowly expanding as car companies foresee improved sales due to pent-up demand, population growth and an aging vehicle fleet.
Cummins Inc., 500 Jackson St., Columbus, Ind. 47202 (www.cummins.com) designs and manufactures diesel engines for automotive and industrial markets.
RepuChek software tracks, analyzes what’s being said about doctors on the Internet.
Increased distribution and demand for smartphones drove Brightpoint Inc.’s third-quarter revenue up 51 percent, to $1.34 billion, the company said after markets closed Thursday.
Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. posted better-than-expected earnings and revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter, the Batesville-based hospital-bed supplier announced Wednesday.
BorgWarner Inc., the world’s biggest maker of automatic-transmission parts for vehicles, filed a lawsuit accusing Cummins Inc. of infringing on three patents for a titanium wheel used in engine turbochargers.
RND Group fills development gaps for companies.
New York-based Ener1 said in a filing Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it would be suspended from the NASDAQ exchange starting Thursday due to non-compliance with filing requirements.
A West Hollywood businessman hopes to build hundreds of trucks outfitted with giant video screens. The product is unproven and so is Bob Yanagihara, the ambitious 50-year-old behind it.
A California startup company that hopes to manufacture trucks outfitted with giant video screens expects to hire 1,200 employees to staff a new 125,000-square-foot production facility near 86th Street and Georgetown Road.
Cummins Inc. reported a 60-percent increase in third-quarter profit as revenue soared 36 percent over the same quarter a year ago.
About a year ago, Jon Arnold shuttered his technology firm’s office in Irvington, but not his company. He and his two employees now rely on technology to keep the company thriving as Arnold and his family spend a year traveling the country in a recreational vehicle.
Through September of this year, Civic sales were 167,384, down 15.5 percent from the 198,272 sold by the same point last year.
The Holy Grail of energy efficiency has yet to arrive, but pieces are falling into place.