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What's happening in the Tech Community.Bloomington’s Booming Businesses: Hanapin Marketing
Hanapin Marketing, a digital marketing agency that focuses on pay-per-click marketing, recently announced plans to expand its operations in Bloomington. The BEDC interviewed them to tout their success and find out more about their experience in Bloomington. Tell us...
Partnership Creates Microloan Program at Ivy Tech
BLOOMINGTON - Cincinnati-based First Financial Bancorp (Nasdaq: FFBC) is partnering with the Gayle & Bill Cook Center for Entrepreneurship at Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington on a new micro-lending program benefiting small business. The partnership will also...
Bloomington Technology Conference, The Combine, Announces Schedule and Speakers for April 7-8 Event
Speaker lineup to feature entrepreneurs, investors, programmers, CEOs, storytellers, researchers, designers, and more! Bloomington, IN (April 3, 2016) – The Combine, an annual conference for technologists, entrepreneurs and innovators, has announced its lineup...
Bloomington Hosts Event with Hyde Park Venture Partners
Local startups to have Fireside Chat with Guy Turner BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA (March 28, 2017) – Bloomington entrepreneurs and fast-growing startups will meet today with Hyde Park Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital firm based in Chicago focused on...
Bloomington-based Hanapin Continues Hiring Trend
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (Feb. 21, 2017) – Hanapin Marketing, a digital marketing agency that focuses on pay-per-click marketing, announced plans today to expand its operations in Bloomington. The company, which increased its headcount by 62 percent in 2016 alone, will...
Ivy Tech students teach coding at Clear Creek Elementary
BLOOMINGTON – In the fall 2016 semester, Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington IT club members taught coding to Clear Creek Elementary School 4th and 6th grade students through a program called Hour of Code. Hour of Code is a global initiative to introduce computer...
Bloomington Celebrates Technology Sector Growth
Bloomington, IN - The Bloomington Technology Partnership (BTP), an initiative of the Bloomington Economic Development Corporation, hosted its annual Tech the Halls event yesterday. The event showcased accomplishments within the technology sector in Bloomington...
Mayor Hamilton Announces Signed Letter of Intent with Axia for Gigabit-class Broadband
Bloomington, Ind. - Mayor John Hamilton was joined by Axia CEO Art Price to announce the City and Axia have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to develop a city-wide, open-architecture Gigabit-class fiber optic broadband service in Bloomington. "I have spoken frequently...
B-Start Kicks Off 2016 Program With Call for Applications
Bloomington, IN (August 24, 2016) – Bloomington’s startup pre-accelerator, B-Start, will open applications on August 29th. The program is open to all Indiana University-Bloomington and Ivy Tech Community College-Bloomington students and includes mentorship,...
Indiana University, NSWC Crane to Collaborate on Cybersecurity
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 18 — Protecting computers from hackers is very different than the Department of Defense preventing terrorist attacks, but the connection between national security and cybersecurity is a lot closer than you think—at least at Indiana University....
Tech Company Grows As Talent Pool Tightens
BLOOMINGTON -The chief executive officer of a Bloomington-based company that develops automated training software for the military and first responders believes his industry is nearing a "sea change" of opportunity for potential growth. Ari Vidali, who founded...
Recruit Global Entrepreneurs for Your Start-up
Link to the one pager: Global Entrepreneur One Pager AIESEC US Job Questionnaire: Global Entrepreneur Partner On Boarding Package Overview Our Global Entrepreneurs program offers start-ups with the opportunity to connect with high-potential talent. By providing your...
Useless Machine Series at Bloominglabs!
Turn on the Useless Machine and a finger reaches out and turns the machine back off. Pretty useless! Take the four workshops below to build your own. Workshops can be taken separately. Arduino (April 25) The Arduino is a popular, affordable, and accessible...
Bloomington to Hold Technology-Focused Career and Internship Fair
Bloomington, IN (March 15, 2016) – The Bloomington Technology Partnership (BTP) of the Bloomington Economic Development Corporation, will host a free career and internship fair with local employers seeking to hire employees or interns in technology-related fields. The...
Bloomington Technology Conference Announces April 2016 Lineup
Bloomington, IN (March 1, 2016) – The Combine, an annual conference for technologists, entrepreneurs and innovators, has announced dates and speakers for its 2016 event. This year’s Combine will feature workshops, a main speaker stage, networking events and...
Yarny application finds new home at Ivy Tech School of Computing and Informatics
BLOOMINGTON –Ivy Tech Community College’s Bloomington campus has partnered with Blue Burro, a local business process software development company, to give Ivy Tech students the opportunity to gain real world experience running an online authoring application called...
IU students build startups from own intellectual property, receive early support from university
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE INDIANAPOLIS -- High-tech entrepreneurs who create intellectual property as graduate or undergraduate students in the Indiana Universitycampus system are impacting the state's economic development by launching businesses, creating jobs and...
Massachusetts’ Municipal Police Training Committee Selects Acadis® Readiness Suite for Statewide Training and Learning Management System
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 11, 2016 Media Contact: Greg Ryhal 812-330-7101 greg.ryhal@envisagenow.com New training solution will serve over 30,000 criminal justice personnel in the Commonwealth BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA – Envisage Technologies, a technology firm based...