The stock opened at $45.10 a share on Thursday, 73 percent above its initial offering price. Tempering expectations was a big theme leading up to the IPO, but that flew out the window with the stock’s opening surge.
The software developer moved across town to a new address in 2012, which nullified its agreement with the city—although it's still on track to meet its goals for new investment and hiring.
The Indianapolis-based company, which develops software for call centers, continued to pick up more big sales as it focused more on cloud-based services.
Reaching the publicly traded level might not happen for anyone in the next year or two, but Indianapolis has several companies (including Jeff Ready’s Scale Computing) that have hoisted themselves out of the often-shaky startup phases and are ready to take off.
The CEOs and of four cloud marketing companies–two national and two local–might make Indianapolis into a bridge between two feuding Silicon Valley giants. Or put the city in the middle of an aggressive arms race in one of the tech industry’s hottest markets—cloud marketing.
Carmel-based SteadyServ Technologies expects to roll out its keg-sensor system early next year and trigger an aggressive hiring phase.
An emerging group of software companies focused on serving charities—combined with the fact the city is home to the only philanthropy college in the country—could make the area a hotbed for an often-ignored area of business.
A Butler University graduate, Bill Soards served on the Indianapolis City-County Council from 1999 to 2003, starting at age 25, and was a member of the Boone County Council from 2004 to 2009.
Indianapolis-based technology firm Compendium, which was started by ExactTarget Inc. co-founder Chris Baggott, has been acquired by Silicon Valley-based tech giant Oracle Corp., the companies announced Thursday morning.
ExactTarget CEO Scott Dorsey and his team have taken the reins of the Marketing Cloud unit at Salesforce.com, a move that has analysts raving.
The Indianapolis-based digital marketer developed a program called Active Audiences, which lets companies better tailor advertisements to individual customers as they scroll around the social network.
The Indianapolis-based marketing technology firm now calls itself Perq LLC after consolidating its three companies into one.
Eric Tobias, who founded iGoDigital, has dropped a federal lawsuit that stemmed from the tech company’s $21 million buyout last year.
Bloomerang is led by technology entrepreneur Jay Love, who sold the donor-management firm eTapestry for $25 million in 2007.
Mike Simmons, who began the company with business partner Steve Howard in 1994, will keep his ties to T2 in a less hands-on role as its chairman.
Shares of the consumer review service have dropped more than 12 percent since the company announced Monday that Chief Technology Officer Manu Thapar had departed. The firm recently hired a new chief financial officer.
Perceivant, on the receiving end of a venture capital infusion, was founded in 2012 by veterans of iGoDigital and ExactTarget.
As Angie’s List approaches its second anniversary as a public company, investors remain as split as ever on whether the consumer-review company is wildly overvalued or a revolutionary Internet business still in its infancy.
Stamford, Conn.-based Frontier Communications Corp. said it has automated a number of systems at its collection center at 11799 N. College Ave. and will no longer need the workers.
Incentive deals are on the table to keep two high-potential businesses in Fishers, and the town is poised to pull the trigger on redevelopment of the Fishers Train Station property—where one of the firms could occupy third-floor office space.
