Blog Archives: Savanna Blackerby
When today's sixth graders were born in 2004, iPods had revolutionized the music industry. A few lucky college kids had exclusive access to a fledgling social network called the Facebook. "Blog" was declared Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year.
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Want to engage 3 billion new customers? Markets like India, Brazil and Africa contain millions of potential new users. They’ve been a key focus for many tech companies, as they have a captive, untapped audience looking for new and relevant mobile Internet content. Over the past year, we’ve seen many…
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In the digital economy, the API is king. Or as Forrester Research has called it, “The poster child of digital transformation.” You’d think the API revolution was a welcome time-saver for developers, now able to API-shortcut their way into all sorts of existing, tested functions and services instead of having…
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Health IT jobs are growing as analyzing patient data captured by electronic medical records becomes more important for clinical improvements, business efficiency and patient satisfaction. Just-released results of a survey from Bisk Education Inc. are designed to get a pulse on the growing health IT field, which links information technology,…
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The chief job recruiting arm of Tampa and Hillsborough County is riding a traditional wave of big-name corporate expansion, from Bristol-Myers Squibb to Johnson & Johnson, with many more deals in the pipeline soon to be announced. Why rock the boat? In what might seem a counter-intuitive move, the leaders…
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The City of Clearwater has launched a new initiative to serve as a catalyst for economic development and business innovation in North Pinellas County. The Clearwater Business SPARK brings together a network of resources targeting the growth of small businesses and entrepreneurs.
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Wearing one’s heart on his/her sleeve is never a good idea. But wearing a personal monitor can save your life. Bioscan R is a biomedical device developer working to increase patient engagement and save lives with wearable devices.
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A Clearwater company that provides remote video interpretation services to the health care industry and other markets has doubled its interpreter base with an acquisition. Stratus Video in Clearwater has purchased Optimal Phone Interpreters in Winter Park for an undisclosed price.
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I’m the co-organizer of the Tampa iOS meetup, a monthly gathering of iOS developers based in the Tampa Bay area, and we recently had a session on game development with Sprite Kit that garnered a fair bit of attention. This series of articles takes some of the ideas from that…
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The wait for the server to arrive at the table. The attempt to get the attention of that server for another drink. And that interminable process of asking for the check, waiting for the server to bring it, waiting for it to be picked up again, run through the register…
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