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Tampa starts: three-year high

Third-quarter housing starts in Tampa at their highest since 2008.'¨

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  • November 4, 2011
OneTouch Direct to hire 700

Tampa-based customer management firm will double its work force.

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  • November 4, 2011
Connecticut pays $900,000 per Jax job

Connecticut legislators recently voted to give The Jackson Labs $291 million in taxpayer money for a research center that may employ 320 people within 10 years.

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  • November 4, 2011
USS Nemo: Seafood Surprise

USS Nemo is a popular lunch spot for executives and you're likely to run into people you know.

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  • November 4, 2011
Gulf Coast Week: Nov. 4

Regional business news at a glance.

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  • November 3, 2011
MarineMax loses $6 million

The company's stock price was down 14% in early Thursday trading.

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  • November 3, 2011
Quality doubles its cash flow

The Tampa firm generated $25 million in cash flow in the first nine months of 2011.

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Superior merges with Cadence

The Tampa-based bank has its headquarters moved to Alabama.

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  • November 3, 2011
Masonite buys $40M Wisc. firm

The Tampa window maker acquired Wisconsin-based Birchwood Best.

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  • November 3, 2011
Clerk of Court forecasts better times ahead

Few people have been as close to the foreclosure crisis as Charlie Green, Lee County's Clerk of Court.

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  • November 3, 2011
Wiest leaves Lee Memorial Hospital

John Wiest, who steered the finances of Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Myers, recently left the hospital group to join PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Tampa.

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  • November 3, 2011
Women entrepreneurs pitch their companies

There's another avenue for women entrepreneurs to pitch their companies to prospective investors.

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  • November 3, 2011
Edison en espanol

The Edison & Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers says there's growing interest by Spanish-language visitors in the winter homes of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.

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  • November 2, 2011
Savtira adds former Napster CEO

John Fanning will join the Tampa-based company's board of directors.

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  • November 2, 2011
Another CEO for Obscene Jeans

Paul Watson is the company's third chief executive in as many months.

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