Three “blended learning” educational organizations have been approved to open 19 charter schools here that combine online technology and face-to-face instruction. The strategy allows schools to save money by employing fewer teachers, yet also can produce impressive student results.
Red Herring magazine’s annual list of top tech startups previously included the likes of Facebook, Google and Yahoo.
Accounting, church jobs lead to software firm that helps tax accountants manage property tax disputes.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., which said it wouldn’t turn a profit this quarter, accounts for about 10 percent of BrightPoint’s distribution business.
Facebook sold 421million shares to raise $16 billion, giving the company a $104 billion market value. After the debut, underwriters bought the stock to keep it from falling below the IPO price.
Husband-and-wife entrepreneurs Randy and Angie Stocklin started Greenwood-based One Click Ventures out of their home with $20,000 in 2005. They now own a portfolio of niche retail websites, including SunglassWarehouse.com, HandbagHeaven.com and Scarves.net, which brought $5.3 million in revenue last year.
The Indianapolis-based digital textbook company Courseload completed a new round of fundraising in April that its CEO says gives the company the cash it needs to keep landing new university customers in what has become a fast-growing but hyper-competitive field.
Most technology firm startups are birthed by men in their 20s and 30s who have a background in computer science. To what degree women are underrepresented in the ranks of tech entrepreneurs is hard to quantify, but it’s a small universe.
Officials consider expanding facility that got off to a slow start but began filling up last fall.
A Greenwood e-commerce company could collect $1 million in state tax credits and training grants if it succeeds in hiring 109 new employees over the next five years.
But major Indianapolis-area hospitals still prefer personal referrals
Indianapolis-based upstart CoatChex is preparing the launch of an iPad-based, ticketless coat-check system for bars through which a patron enters his phone number to check a coat and, later, to retrieve it.
Aprimo founder joins other notables as TechPoint Trailblazer.
Indianapolis-based Blue Pillar Inc., which makes software to manage electrical grids, has closed on $7 million in funding from four venture capital firms, it said Monday.
BrightPoint Inc. stock fell as much as 12 percent early Friday morning following disappointing first-quarter earnings that prompted the company to lower its 2012 financial forecast.
The growing popularity of cloud computing is sending sales skyward for Bluelock, a 6-year-old firm that is turning a profit and garnering national attention.
The Indianapolis-based company reported a first-quarter loss of nearly $13.5 million on revenue of $31.1 million. Paid memberships topped 1.2 million, an 81-percent increase from the same period a year earlier.
Shares of Interactive Intelligence fell as much 10 percent in early trading Thursday after the Indianapolis-based software maker reported lower earnings.
The city is guaranteed $7.5 million in savings over 15 years from a $18 million upgrade of city facilities, and the savings are expected to accumulate further.
IT professor Ali Jafari, who netted Indiana University $23 million on its $130,000 investment in his Angel Learning when it sold three years ago, recently launched CourseNetworking, which allows learners across the globe to connect and chat around shared interests and class subjects.
