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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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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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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