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Job Description We are excited to find another programmer to join our development team. Successful candidates should enjoy a fast-paced, young-minded environment and have enthusiasm for technical elegance. We are looking for someone who is self-motivated and can meet project goals and deadlines. Work will involve both collaborative efforts and individual responsibilities. Required to apply Strong [...]
Inclusion Requirements Immense Networks met the following requirements for inclusion in the LSU 100: Has been in business for five years or more Has had verifiable revenues of $100,000 or more for the last calendar year A former LSU student owns at least 50 percent of the company or is a CEO, president or managing [...]
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Office Furniture World has offered wholesale furniture to the Baton Rouge area for over 20 years. Now, customers can browse their inventory online via their new website - http://www.ofwbr.com.
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We are launching a beta version of ServerExec, designed to notify you when a domain name or SSL certificate is about to expire. It was developed to be a simple notification system that warns you 90, 60, and 30 days and the day before something expires. There’s also goodies like registrar info, creation date, nameservers, [...]
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Web design & development in Baton Rouge Most of our employees are from Louisiana and have attended local high schools and colleges. This is our home, and we want to help our neighbors succeed by providing quality web work at a fair price. Web development goals Part of our web development process seeks to fully [...]
BATON ROUGE – Immense Networks will be honored as one of the top 100 fastest growing tiger businesses during the LSU 100 Awards Luncheon on Friday, April 8, 2011, beginning at 11:30 a.m. The luncheon will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, located at 4728 Constitution Avenue. According to LSU Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute Director [...]
Immense Networks gets featured by LSU and the Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute in the Fastest Growing Tiger Businesses, celebrating former LSU students representing various fields and professions. Check it out – http://www.lsu100.com/
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The Immense Networks website has been featured on BestCSSdesign.com, a website showcase for CSS-designed sites.
We’ve updated our site to the latest HTML5 and CSS3 markup. What does using HTML5 and CSS3 mean to you? It means we’re embracing the latest web development techniques to offer our clients and their users an enhanced web experience. These technologies are cutting-edge and ultimately help people, search engines, and accessibility-assistance software make more [...]
Immense Networks featured in a WBRZ news story. It’s one of the focuses for President Barack Obama’s second State of the Union Address, but what about jobs in Baton Rouge? Healthcare, information technologies, and film top the list of expected industries to grow, according to an economic outlook report by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. [...]
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