Local firms catch podcasting bug
Growing ranks of Indianapolis-area companies have launched podcasts in recent years, capitalizing on lower barriers to entry and swelling listenership.
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Local software firm Lesson.ly lands $5 million in VC
Lesson.ly, which sells cloud-based employee-training software, brought on a new investor thanks in part to former ExactTarget CEO Scott Dorsey.
Parking-tech company lands Bluelock co-founder as CEO
Indianapolis-based Parker Technology LLC has named Brian Wolff as its new CEO following a business-model overhaul for the 6-year-old firm.
Visit Indy goes all-digital with advertising
Visit Indy decided in the third quarter of 2014 to go all-digital with its seven-figure leisure advertising campaign, and it hasn’t looked back.
Virginia-based tech firm to open Midwest office in Fishers
Sterling, Virginia-based Innolance Inc. plans to open an office in Launch Fishers that will employ as many as 31 workers by the end of 2020, the company announced Wednesday.
Allos moves to Launch Fishers to get closer to startups
Allos, which invests in early-stage companies mostly in the tech sector, has ditched its traditional suburban office for room in the popular Hamilton County co-working space.
Coding clubs target girls, minorities while they’re children
A few not-for-profits and at least one university have rolled out coding programs they hope will alter some of the somber statistics on the lack of diverse populations in technology careers.
Fishers courts, wins technology businesses
Fishers has become a mecca for tech companies—but it didn’t happen overnight and it didn’t happen by accident.
Hackers help state solve programming challenges
The coding projects came as part of the first-ever #INCapitolHack, which kicked off Indy Chamber’s Hack Indiana series.
Report: Region has 51,000 tech jobs
Drawing on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, TechPoint’s “2015 State of Tech Talent in Indiana” report said there are 26,000 IT and non-IT positions in the tech industry, as well as 2,400 computer-related sole proprietors or freelancers.
Another ExactTarget alum joins year-old High Alpha
M.T. Ray will be responsible for attracting talent to the High Alpha team and helping portfolio companies land leaders and employees.
Indy a key battleground in fight for digital marketing supremacy
Salesforce and some of its competitors have been using their Indianapolis operations to help forge a new industry—the creation of cloud-based digital dashboards known as “marketing clouds.”
Salesforce’s McCorkle: ‘We’re going to hire 50 percent more people’
Speaking in a cafe his company recently opened in downtown’s Gibson Building, Salesforce Marketing Cloud CEO Scott McCorkle re-affirmed hiring plans and left the door open for the Connections conference to return to Indy.
IBM case still pending as Indiana court awaits new justice
The upcoming retirement of one of Indiana's Supreme Court justices has legal observers speculating on when the court might rule in a long-running dispute over IBM Corp.'s failed attempt to privatize Indiana's welfare services.
As paywall falls, Angie’s List aims to double sales
CEO Scott Durchslag told analysts he will reinvigorate growth by dropping the paywall, which he said will open the floodgates to a deluge of new customers.
Midwest tech firms might skirt big valuation dips, experts say
The tailwinds that helped push valuations at private tech companies to sky-high levels have subsided considerably in 2016, but local experts think Midwest startups have little to fear.
Blue Horseshoe planning $3.5M expansion in Carmel
The Carmel-based software firm announced plans Thursday to move into a new headquarters and add 70 highly paid employees over the next five years. Citimark is developing the three-story office building along the North Meridian corridor.
White House adds Indianapolis to TechHire initiative
The initiative, which looks to train about 560 local tech workers by 2018, comes as central Indiana companies of all types show increasing hunger for skilled computer workers.
LeadJen co-founders sue each other after split
An apparent fallout last year between Jenny Vance and Bill Johnson—two of the area’s better-known tech entrepreneurs—led the business partners to file lawsuits against each other last week.
Premier Healthcare warns of data breach after theft
The company announced Monday that a missing laptop contains the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and other confidential information of more than 200,000 patients.