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Our town. Our news. Our businesses. Our stories in our own words. The crossroads of America is now the birthplace of the online crossroads of small business and the local community: the Fight for Small Initiative. Designed to bridge the gap between small businesses and the Web — the online Main Street — the Fight for Small […]

CICP Foundation has received a $1.3 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support the Xtern program at Techpoint, Indiana’s technology growth initiative. The program attracts top university talent and immerses them in a one-of-a-kind summer internship experience. TechPoint is using the grant to launch the Xtern program, which the nonprofit economic development organization promotes […]

Convincing Indiana CIOs to buy technology from Indiana tech companies isn't as difficult as it once was. In fact, many CIOs are eager to "buy local" and put their money where their mouth is as long as the products and services are equal to or superior than out-of-state tech. The biggest obstacle to buying local […]

RepuCare Onsite, a, Indianapolis-based health and wellness company that also operates onsite health clinics for employers, announced yesterday that they bought Spectrum Health Services, a company that provides complementary services and also operates clinics. The interesting tech connection, says deal advisor Brian Modiano, is that combining Spectrum's 17 years of data with RepuCare's 18 years […]

Sometimes it takes a view from outside of our own community to remind us just how far we've come — to take a moment and acknowledge the enormity of Indy's tech sector successes over the past few years. Last week I received a call from a reporter at the St. Louis Dispatch in Missouri. He […]