Two Tampa tech companies with mobile platforms to make concert or sports events more fun for attendees and financially rewarding for promoters are in the hot spot for potential investors. “Sports is a sexy business,” Karri Zaremba, co-founder at Venuetize, said during the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Business of Sports…
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Cohesion, an IT consulting and staffing firm, will relocate its national headquarters to Tampa. The company will bring new jobs with its relocation, the Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corp. said. Gov. Rick Scott will be at the EDC on Monday afternoon to announce details.
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Clearwater marketing firm Digital Media Solutions is dramatically expanding its revenue and scope of services with an acquisition. The addition of Sparkroom in Paramus, New Jersey will make DMS one of the largest ad agencies in the United States, said Joe Marinucci, CEO of DMS.
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The Tampa investment firm founded by former Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford raised $1 million to invest in PayIt. Weatherford also was named to the board of directors of the Kansas City, Missouri company, which provides mobile payments processing for government services,according to the company’s website.
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Tampa Bay Startup Week offers entrepreneurs the one thing they need they most — and might not realize they need it. That one thing is connections with others who also are working to start and grow their own businesses, said Gracie Stemmer, lead organizer.
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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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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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Five startup companies formed in the Tampa Bay area have been selected from a pool of more than 30 small businesses to compete as finalists in the Bright House Networks Pitch 6 competition.
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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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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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