Anthony Comer walked in to Amalie Arena on Tuesday morning hoping for a fun way to skip class. He walked out with a potential new job. Comer, a 19-year-old senior at Tampa Bay Tech High School, made the most of the first ever Build Tampa Bay technical career fair, pairing…
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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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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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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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Could this be my last winter? When you spend your entire life in Minnesota and Iowa, you dream of moving to a warm weather city. And now after years of what feels like no career path, I find myself admitted into a respected software boot camps ready to spend 12…
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Tampa Bay is the cheapest place to live in Florida, and the region's cost of living is well below the rest of the country's, according to new figures released Monday.
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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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The IT sector in Tampa, from managing complicated systems to lockdown-tight cybersecurity, is a scorcher — both for growth in customers and an urgent need for employees. Tampa-based Cyber Risk Management is one of several firms to recently seize an opportunity to grow. The firm acquired Bethesda, Md.-based Aptec, which…
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Tampa riders can’t seem to get enough of Uber. It was named the No. 2 city in Florida when it comes to Uber transactions, according to a study conducted by Certify, a provider of cloud-based travel and entertainment expense reporting software.
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