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The site allows users to create and save sales proposals online. Those sending the proposals then can track who is viewing the documents, which parts they’re examining and for how long.
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Prosolia Inc. restructures top management
The company, which develops mass spectrometry devices used in the life sciences and industrial chemistry, has a new CEO, among other changes.
Audio recording history on display in dealer’s HQ
Van Ausdall & Farrar got its start when innovator Thomas Edison selected it as an Ediphone distributor. Since then, the company has been proud of its association with the American icon, and now Van Ausdall has its own in-house Voice Museum to pay homage to its history.
ChaCha lands $20 million venture investment
The funding comes from new investors VantagePoint Venture Partners and Rho Ventures. Since its inception in December 2005, ChaCha has raised more than $50 million, including $7 million earlier this year from a venture capital fund.
Interactive Intelligence stock up on quarterly projections
Shares of Interactive Intelligence Inc. surged Tuesday after the communications software maker reported preliminary third-quarter results and projected that revenue will grow 20 percent this year.
Creating smart-phone apps becomes big business for IUPUI students
Used to be a college student would work in the dining hall to make ends meet. For IUPUI students Gagan Dhillon, 18, and Sarb “S.J.” Singh, 21, the future is now.
Interactive Intelligence buys Jacksonville software maker
Interactive Intelligence Inc. has bolstered its product line of business software applications by acquiring Latitude Software for $14 million.
Four-year-old BlueLock makes first change in top executive ranks
The so-called cloud computing and managed IT services firm is part of Collina Ventures, a holding company created by local tech entrepreneurs Karen and Mark Hill.
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.
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.