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Irsay quickly gains Twitter following
Since joining Twitter last week, the Indianapolis Colts owner has talked about player injuries, compared his team’s season to an epic boxing match and made reference to a former drug habit.
Greenfield schools welcome iPad use in classroom
Forget the chalkboard. Throw away that pencil. Students in a Hancock County community are embracing the latest technology as a new learning tool.
Raidious aims to feed online marketing beast
Upstart firm helps its clients meet onerous content demands of social media, other online marketing channels.
Electric car maker starts production at Elkhart plant
Think North America has started work on two-seat electric cars at its northern Indiana facility and expects the first ones to be finished in the coming days.
Scale Computing scores $17M in venture capital
The latest round of funding brings the total raised by the local data-storage upstart to $31 million and follows a $9 million investment it received in March.
Company thinks it can make college textbooks obsolete
An Indianapolis company has developed Web-based software that allows college students to read and electronically mark up textbooks, articles, chapters of books, etc. It also has a business model that its owners think will make more money for publishers and slash students’ textbook costs—which average $1,200 a year—in half.
ALTOM: Why the maddening duplication of doctor forms?
In every successive medical office—every single one—we have to fill out the very same data, over and over and over again. Name. Occupation. Medical history. Insurance. They always tell us on a first visit to arrive at least 15 minutes early so we can fill out all this stuff. It’s infuriating to me.
Salvation Army hopes technology boosts fundraising
After falling short of its fundraising goal last year, Salvation Army of Indiana is unveiling a text-to-give promotion and a social media campaign in hopes of ringing up gifts from new donors.
Central Indiana software firm faces engineer crunch
A software company based in central Indiana is going on a 10-city recruiting tour in search of applicants to fill 150 engineering jobs by next spring.
ChaCha approaches web-traffic milestone
Traffic to the site hit a record high of 18.5 million unique visitors in October, making it the fastest-growing in Quantcast’s top 100 websites.
PROXY CORNER: Bell Industries Inc.
Bell Industries Inc., 8888 Keystone Crossing, Suite 1700 (www.BellInd.com), is a holding company for Bell Techlogix and the Recreational Products Group.
Brightpoint shares rise after results top expectations
The wireless-device distributor reported revenue of $889 million in the third quarter, an increase of 3 percent compared to the same quarter of 2009.
Profit, revenue increase for Interactive Intelligence
The business-communications software firm had profit of $3.5 million in the quarter ended Sept. 30, up from $2.8 million in the same period of 2009. Quarterly revenue leaped to $41.8 million, an increase of 26 percent.
State sues WellPoint over data breach
The lawsuit filed Friday in Marion County accuses Indianapolis-based WellPoint of violating a state law that requires businesses to provide notification of data breaches in a timely manner.
Tech firm to hire about 125 in Carmel
Interactions Corp., a technology firm based in Boston, plans to hire about 125 workers at its technology center in Carmel over the next few months, the company announced Thursday morning.
Former iSalus CEO sues tech firm for breach of contract
Mark A. Day is suing Indianapolis-based technology firm iSalus Healthcare, claiming he was dismissed without cause and is entitled to severance pay and benefits.
UPDATE: New product, services drive ExactTarget growth plans
A new product roll-out and increasing demand for client services will drive ExactTarget's growth over the next five years, CEO Scott Dorsey said Tuesday after his firm announced that it would invest $45M and add 500 employees through 2015.
Rushville broadband firm sued by companies it acquired
Omnicity Corp. is named in three lawsuits brought by owners of companies the firm bought who say they’ve not been paid the entire purchase price. All told, they claim they’re owed more than $1.2 million.
Purdue Tech Center expands by 12,000 square feet
A $2.2 million addition to the Purdue Technology Center is expected to help attract high-tech jobs to northwest Indiana.