Articles by Joshua Hall

Indy’s appetite for tech news is growing, and Indy media have served up some tasty tech news entrees over the past week! Inside Indiana Business, the Indianapolis Business Journal and WIBC-Radio all covered the release of TechPoint’s second Workforce Report, which highlights the tech skills that are most in demand among tech employers and the continuing […]

The free mobile giving app Givelify has partnered with Mayor Greg Ballard and several businesses and community groups to help feed the hungry this holiday season. Organizers of “Pack the Pantries” think nobody in Indianapolis should go hungry, but especially at this time of the year. Every dollar donated to Pack the Pantries is turned […]

Remember when your mom asked you “If they jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?” Your mom was trying to tell you to reject peer pressure and go your own way, but she probably has never heard of Allos Ventures and the three original co-founders of ExactTarget — all of whom just invested […]

Indy-based healthcare cloud-computing innovator hc1.com has been named to the Red Herring Top 100 Global list recognizing the world’s leading private companies. Past winners include Facebook, Twitter, Google, Salesforce.com, and YouTube; but hc1 has the distinction of being the only company in history to be named to the list two years in a row, as well […]

Matt and Cristina Goebel faced the same challenges many couples face during their own wedding last year. The wedding planning process is overwhelming, and a lot can get lost in translation with information stored in different notebooks and emails or contracts. Additionally, brides (and their grooms and families) are constantly asked the same questions over and […]

In a piece about the Forbes Reinventing America event for Centric, Indy’s innovation advocacy group, Jason Williams draws a line in the sand and dares doubters of Indiana’s innovation credentials to cross it. Forbes’ Reinventing America event helped validate what we’ve known all along. Indiana is a center of innovation that demands global attention. Leaders throughout […]

Disruptive businesses can sound pretty crazy at first. I thought Jim Brown might have a screw loose when he first told me about Haven. It’s a free mobile app and website that uses public data and predictive technology to help homeowners identify maintenance needs and then get that work done and pay for it at the […]

We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas. That is why today, I am asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to answer the call of almost 4 million public comments, and implement the strongest possible rules to […]