Indianapolis Art Center launches online marketplace to help counter COVID
The marketplace it says is open to all artists, regardless of their affiliation with the center or where their wares are displayed.
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Local podcast software firm beating growth projections during pandemic
The Indianapolis-based company, which was founded in early 2019, has grown its staff from seven to 20 full-time employees over the past year.
Salesforce to buy work chat service Slack for $27.7 billion
The acquisition announced Tuesday is by far the largest in the 21-year history of Salesforce, which located its Marketing Cloud division in Indianapolis after it acquired ExactTarget in 2013.
Left for dead twice, RadioShack getting another shot online
The big question: How much value does the RadioShack brand have when the prized target audience of younger consumers might have never owned a radio, let alone stepped inside a RadioShack store?
DeliverEnd has bold vision to make peer-to-peer online sales safer
The tech company markets an app designed to improve the safety, security and convenience of delivering items bought and sold on online marketplaces such as Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist.
Legislative priorities for tech industry include focus on diversity, inclusion
The Indiana Technology and Innovation Association, which represents more than 100 members from large technology companies and small startups, announced its legislative agenda on Thursday and about a quarter of the items are focused on equity and inclusion.
Apple to cut App Store fees in half for most developers
Apple has faced ongoing scrutiny from government regulators and criticism from developers about the percentage of revenue it takes for App Store purchases.
Local marketing software biz SmarterHQ acquired by New York City-based firm
SmarterHQ, a fast-growing Indianapolis-based marketing software firm that has raised more than $42 million in venture capital since its founding in 2010, has been acquired.
High Alpha launches software firm for real estate teams
High Alpha on Tuesday announced the formal launch of its eighth company this year and its 20th since its founding in 2015.
Old technology has spawned a new idea that’s crucial for schools during pandemic
Indiana is only the second state in the U.S. to use a technology called “datacasting” to deliver educational content into students’ homes—without the need for Wi-Fi.
Ag firm creates big buzz with bee hive tech
The Bee Corp. has pioneered technology that can count the number of bees in a hive and monitor hive health, which is imperative for various crop growers globally.
Local software firm Encamp expands tax-credit deal with state, projects big growth
Indianapolis-based software company Encamp is seeing significant growth this year and looking to expand its team. Encamp, which now has 22 employees—17 in Indiana, is projecting to have 226 by 2029.
TikTok asks court to intervene as Trump order looms
TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, has until Thursday to sell off its U.S. operations under an executive order that Trump signed in August.
European Union files antitrust charges against Amazon over use of data
Amazon faces a possible fine of up to 10% of its annual worldwide revenue. That could amount to as much as $28 billion, based on its 2019 earnings. The Seattle-based company rejected the accusations.
$40M data center opens in northwest Indiana
Roughly half of the center has been leased for servers that’ll be connected to a fiber line to downtown Chicago.
Eleven Fifty Academy joins forces with Indiana colleges to launch coding boot camp
The program at seven private schools will take advantage of a longer winter break to provide intensive instruction and is aimed at non-computer science students.
Digital media company ZergNet moving from Noblesville to Fishers
A digital-media company that includes billionaire Mark Cuban as one of its early investors is planning to relocate its 53 Indiana-based employees to Fishers’ Meyer-Najem building.
KAR turns higher-than-expected quarterly profit despite missing revenue projections
The Carmel-based company said its results for the first nine months of 2020 have been “significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Google ad costs, not its dominance, irking small businesses
Google controls about 90% of global internet searches, but what’s unfair, many small business owners say, is the way it gives the greatest prominence in search results to the companies that spend the most on advertising.
Aerospace firm donates hypersonics tunnel to Purdue
Once the tunnel is installed, Purdue will be only the second U.S. university to offer such hypersonics test capability.