Stories

Three young Tampa Bay companies will be among 50 competing for $50,000 in prizes at a national conference for startups and investors. Autography, PikMyKid and KynderMed are semi-finalists for SUP-X: The StartUp Expo, Feb. 16-17 in Fort Lauderdale. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
Mark Dickson thinks he’s gotten pretty close to predicting the future — at least in the world of residential real estate.As founder and CEO of Sarasota-based offrs.com, he runs a startup that can tell Realtors which homes in a specific territory are most likely to be listed for sale in… Read More
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… Read More
At 50 years of age, Jabil is looking pretty spry. The St. Petersburg electronics manufacturing company celebrated its half-century mark Thursday morning, telling a small gathering of investors at its annual shareholders meeting that the next 50 years could be a blockbuster. Read More
Two Tampa startups — Venuetize and WeVue — will be in the spotlight next month, when they are among 50 companies featured at a global conference in Silicon Valley. Read More
With a very lucky guess, I have actually pulled this off once in two tries, and got many free beers by people stunned by my “elite hacker skills”. My assertion that it would take me 24 (4 × 3 × 2 × 1) attempts to enter the correct keycode is based on a… Read More