My Health Care Manager wins $1.25M to improve software
The Indianapolis-based firm that helps seniors and their care givers navigate the health care system won a nearly $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
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Pick your (bug) poison
Now scientists are finding genetically modified insect killer in Indiana water.
Local firm lands $50 million Coast Guard account
Indianapolis-based technology firm Communications Products Inc. scores its second big government contract in nine months.
Surveillance trailblazer Exacq Technologies touts big clients, rapid growth
Clever adaptation of new technology has helped propel Exacq Technologies’ dizzying 1,624-percent growth rate in the last three years.
TechPoint broadens agenda for annual technology summit
This year’s event will look at trends in so-called clean technologies.
NFP of NOTE: NPower Indiana
NPower Indiana's mission is to inspire and enable Indiana not-for-profits to use technology to better serve their communities.
Indiana lawmakers push for Internet taxes
A bipartisan duo of state lawmakers wants Congress to allow states to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases, a move they say could bring hundreds of millions of dollars to cash-strapped Indiana.
ChaCha may drop T-Mobile over planned fee
Wireless carrier plans to begin charging a new one-quarter of 1 cent fee on text messages. In response, ChaCha CEO Scott Jones says his company will drop the wireless carrier from its answer service.
Brightpoint replaces director hired to lead Six Flags
Brightpoint Inc. said board member James W.P. Reid-Anderson has resigned after being selected last week to become chairman, president and CEO of amusement park operator Six Flags Entertainment Corp.
UPDATE: New tech jobs come with handsome wages
Mobi Wireless expects to pay average wages of more than $50,000 to 253 new workers; Bostech Corp. expects to pay more than $80,000 to 61 new employees.
E-mail marketer ExactTarget taking more downtown space
The company has inked a deal to take the entire seventh floor of the Century Building at 36 S. Pennsylvania St., and may take additional space on two other floors.
New venture capital firm off to blazingly fast start
Cultivian Ventures began investing in a no-man's land just as the financial crisis ramped up, and now it's already considering a second fund.
Facebook, others try to cut in on ChaCha’s answer service
Tech entrepreneur Scott Jones says the accuracy of his company’s answers will set ChaCha apart from its social-media rivals.
Quest Information Systems software powers online voter registration in Indiana
Indiana voters are getting a hands-on opportunity to use software created by a Castleton company that works in the minefield that is government contracting.
Hoosier pitches solar-power solution
An Arcadia man has developed a novel way to generate alternating current from the sun.
ALTOM: Do I need a cell phone that’s hardy or handy?
It’s time to change my cell phone, and that’s causing me a big problem. I have conflicting needs, and like everybody
else in the business world, I can’t seem to reconcile them.
Gator Bowl signs contract with Indianapolis software firm
Locally based TRS provides customizable online registration to event managers across North America.
ExactTarget acquires Australian distributor
E-mail marketing firm’s purchase of mPath gives company a presence in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. The acquisition is
the third for ExactTarget in the past year.
IBM buys Aprimo rival Unica Corp.
Both Unica and Aprimo are leaders in the realm of marketing software and services.
IT firm approved for tax breaks on $29 million project
Lightbound LLC plans to construct 50,000-square-foot data center near Kentucky Avenue on the city’s southwest side. The abatement
should save the company $2.5 million.