Category: Tech

Sykes Enterprises Inc. has a deal to buy Clear Link Holdings Inc. for $207 million. Sykes (NASDAQ: SYKE), a call center operator based in Tampa, said in a press release that the deal would extend Sykes’ competitive advantage and expand its suite of services. Read More
Serious Simulations LLC recently announced a new milestone for its patent-pending wireless video “Reformatter”. Read More
Amid a flurry of activity punctuated by the buzz of power drills and a working band saw, Allysa Allen, 17, slid her safety glasses up from her face and took stock of the cooperative effort going on in the River Ridge High School Academy of Engineering classroom and workshop. Read More
Data-Tech will celebrate 20 years of providing award-winning information technology services throughout Tampa Bay and beyond by hosting an Open House and informative Cyber-Threat Symposium on March 30 in Tampa. Read More
Three USF Health Information Systems (IS) research submissions have been selected for full session presentations at the upcoming 2016 Information Technology in Academic Medicine Conference. The conference, sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Information Resources (GIR), will be held June 1-3 in Toronto, Canada. Read More
Tampa Bay Technology Forum (tbtf.org) announces that Jill Pearson has joined their team as the Director of Partnerships & Engagement. Jill will be working with current members to enhance their engagement with the organization and to further develop partner sales, ultimately growing revenue. Read More
 Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik, in a downtown St. Petersburg event last night, spoke publicly for one of the first times about the team’s partial ownership in a Seattle tech firm. Read More
The market is showing an interest in technology developed through the University of South Florida that can instantly determine whether a grouper is really a grouper. In the future, similar technology may signal whether wild-caught shrimp, tuna and red snapper live up to their claims, and even whether that glop… Read More
As the U.S. Special Operations Command guy in charge of equipping the nation's special ops forces with the best possible — best imagined — tools to do their dangerous jobs, James "Hondo" Geurts was not satisfied. Read More
Five research teams led by University of South Florida faculty members have each been awarded $50,000 grants as part of the 2016 Florida Center for Cybersecurity (FC2) Seed Grant Program. A total of $500,000 in research grants were awarded Wednesday to ten teams representing eight institutions from Florida’s State University… Read More