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Charter deal for Time Warner Cable will shift TV industry
Charter Communications has struck a deal to buy Time Warner Cable, an acquisition that would create a powerhouse in the consolidating American cable and broadband industry. Charter announced today Tuesday a $55 billion deal for its larger rival and a $10 billion takeover of a smaller competitor, Bright House Networks. Full statement from Charter is here.
More from the New York Times, the Tampa Bay Times, the Tampa Bay Business Journal, and CNBC.
Summer to sizzle with leisure and group business
The hotter and wetter months of June, July and August, aren't as packed with tourists as the peak December-to-April season, but that's changing. That's partly due to more leisure and corporate groups taking advantage of lower off-season room rates and other perks. [Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel]
The importance of keeping young doctors
Keeping doctors local has tremendous economic benefit. According to an independent study conducted by the research firm IMS Health, every physician supports 12.26 local jobs in addition to their own. [Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune]
Businesses on both sides of the Florida Straits get to know each other
There’s jockeying and movement on both sides of the Florida Straits as everyone from Cuba’s entrepreneurs to large American corporations try to get to know each other and scope out business opportunities. [Source: Miami Herald]
Hurricane season: Amid threat of storms, doubt over property insurers
Reviving a competitive market for private insurance remains, after all these years, the goal in a state that suffered Hurricane Andrew in 1992. That devastation sent major insurance companies fleeing the state. [Source: Tampa Bay Times]
› Black Hawk business takes off for Central Florida company
What began two decades ago as a little whirlybird company in Central Florida is on the way to becoming a service and certification agent for one of the most iconic crafts in the sky: the Army's Black Hawk.
› Once vilified, BP now getting credit for gulf tourism boom
With the Memorial Day holiday here, fallout from the oil spill that left Gulf Coast beaches smeared with gooey tar balls and scared away visitors in 2010 is being credited, oddly, with something no one imagined back then: An increase in tourism in the region.
› Some South Florida workers still feel left out of recovery
Cully Waggoner makes $10 an hour answering calls from customers who need their air-conditioners and refrigerators repaired. Before the recession, he was pulling in $40,000 to $50,000 a year selling computer hardware.
› Changes in store at Miami Fashion Week
Miami Fashion Week is about to get a makeover. The founder of the annual event, Beth Sobol, and her partner in the venture sold the company behind the event to a group of European investors who plan a global expansion of the brand.
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