March 19, 2024

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| 5/28/2015

Small business growth is on the rebound

If you're feeling better about the economy these days, you're not alone. A new study shows the growth rate of new small businesses is ticking up--though as a whole, times aren't as flush as they were before the latest recession. More at Inc.

Business Profile
Bay Area Thermoplastics

Bay Area Thermoplastics, which manufactures reflective curb markers that display a home­owner's house number and are an alternative to spray paint.

» More from the Tampa Bay Times

University of Florida to end midwifery, 2 other programs

The University College of Nursing has decided to end its midwifery program and two other doctoral tracks of study. The programs will end in 2018, when the last of the current students are scheduled to graduate. More from WFTV.

FanDuel aims for rapid expansion with former Zynga sports team

You can’t keep video game developers out of work for long in the Orlando area. When a team from Zynga recently became available, another company snapped them up a week later. More at the Orlando Sentinel.

Jeb Bush’s busy role on corporate boards could become campaign issue

Bush served on the boards or as an adviser to 11 companies or nonprofits at a time each year from 2010 to 2013, The Associated Press found. Those ties were in addition to his own businesses, such as Jeb Bush & Associates, and the educational foundations he created. More at the AP.

State abandons plan for one-stop business registration website

Envisioning all the whiz-bang capabilities of a modern statewide government registration website is easy. Actually building that website to perform all the promised tasks? Not as easy. More at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Out of the Box
How Sharks Fight Off Cancer

mote shark tank Mote Marine Laboratory research scientists headed by Carl A. Luer have spent decades studying the miraculous ways in which bonnetheads defend themselves from cancer, and the way in which Atlantic stingrays and related species grow their own antibiotics.

» More from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune

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