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Friday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Sarasota start-up plans to hire 150 by year's end
A start-up that has the made the region its home base for outsourced sales and marketing campaigns expects to have 50 employees by the end of June.
› Tampa's Quality Distribution to be acquired by Apax private equity fund for $800 million
Quality Distribution Inc., a publicly traded logistics and transportation company based in Tampa, will be acquired by the Apax Partners private equity firm. The transaction comes to about $800 million, including the assumption of debt, or $16 per share in cash.
› MIA travelers can soon shorten checkpoint waits with fingerprint or iris scans
Travelers at Miami International Airport will soon have the option to shorten their wait to get through the dreaded security checkpoint — for a price. On May 20, a new secure identification option called CLEAR that verifies identities through fingerprints or iris scans will launch at the Miami airport.
› Central Florida's water agency roils with resignations
Simultaneous and unexplained departures by four executives from the agency that protects Central Florida's wetlands, rivers and aquifer triggered complaints Wednesday that the moves were orchestrated to weaken the region's environmental safeguards.
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